Tree of Life Version
Proverbs 3:5
5Trust in Adonai with all your heart, lean not on your own understanding.
Proverbs 3:5 in other versions
- King James Version (KJV)Trust in the Lord with all thine heart; and lean not unto thine own understanding.
- New International Version (NIV)Trust in the Lord with all your heart and lean not on your own understanding;
- English Standard Version (ESV)Trust in the Lord with all your heart, and do not lean on your own understanding.
- New King James Version (NKJV)Trust in the Lord with all your heart, And lean not on your own understanding;
Context of Proverbs 3:5
3Let kindness and truth never leave you— bind them around your neck, write them on the tablet of your heart. 4Then you will gain favor and a good name in the eyes of God and man. Trust in Adonai with all your heart, lean not on your own understanding. 6In all your ways acknowledge Him, and He will make your paths straight. 7Do not be wise in your own eyes; fear Adonai and turn away from evil.
Read all of Proverbs 3Proverbs 3:5 word by word
בְּטַ֣ח אֶל־יְ֭הוָה בְּכָל־לִבֶּ֑ךָ וְאֶל־בִּֽ֝ינָתְךָ֗ אַל־תִּשָּׁעֵֽן׃Read the interlinear
Words taken from the KJV.
Cross-references for Proverbs 3:5
- Proverbs 22:19So that your trust may be in Adonai, I made them known to you this day, even you.
- Job 13:15Even if He slays me, I will wait for Him; I will surely defend my ways before Him.
- Psalms 37:3Trust in Adonai and do good. Dwell in the land, feed on faithfulness.
- Psalms 62:8On God, my salvation and my glory is the rock of my strength. My refuge is in God.
- Psalms 115:9O Israel, trust in Adonai— He is their help and their shield!
- Psalms 125:1A Song of Ascents. Those who trust in Adonai are like Mount Zion— it cannot be moved, but endures forever.
- Psalms 146:3Do not put your trust in princes— in man, in whom there is no salvation.
- Isaiah 12:2Behold, God is my salvation! I will trust and will not be afraid. For the Lord Adonai is my strength and my song. He also has become my salvation.”
- Isaiah 26:3You keep in perfect peace one whose mind is stayed on You, because he trusts in You.
- Jeremiah 17:7Blessed is the one who trusts in Adonai, whose confidence is in Adonai.
- Ephesians 1:12so that we, who were first to put our hope in Messiah, might be for His glorious praise.
- Proverbs 3:7Do not be wise in your own eyes; fear Adonai and turn away from evil.
- Proverbs 23:4Do not wear yourself out to get rich. Be wise enough to restrain yourself.
- Proverbs 28:26Whoever trusts in his own heart is a fool, but he who walks in wisdom will escape.
- Jeremiah 9:23But let one who boasts boast in this: that he understands and knows Me. For I am Adonai who exercises lovingkindness, justice and righteousness on earth. For in these things I delight.” It is a declaration of Adonai.
- Jeremiah 10:23I know, Adonai, that a man’s way is not his own, nor does man, as he walks, direct his steps.
Commentaries on Proverbs 3:5
- Adam Clarke Bible Commentary · v. 5Trust in the Lord with all thine heart - This is a most important precept: God is the Fountain of all good. He has made his intelligent creatures dependent upon himself. He requires them to be conscious of that dependence. He has promised to communicate what they need. He commands them to believe his promise, and look for its fulfillment. And to do this without doubt, fear, or distrust; "with their whole heart." Lean not unto thine own understanding…Read the comment
- Barnes’ Notes on the Bible · v. 5In preaching “trust in God” the moralist anticipates the teaching that man is justified by faith. To confide in God‘s will, the secret of all true greatness, is to rise out of all our anxieties and plans and fears when we think of ourselves as the arbiters of our own fortunes, and so “lean to our own understanding.”Read the comment
- Tyndale Open Study Notes · v. 5-6On the journey to wisdom, God guides us through the wisdom in his word.Read the comment
- Jamieson–Fausset–Brown Commentary · v. 55. Trust ... heart--This is the center and marrow of true wisdom (Pr 22:19; 28:25). The positive duty has its corresponding negation in the admonition against self-confidence.Read the comment
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Commentaries on Proverbs 3
- Adam Clarke Bible Commentary
- Barnes’ Notes on the Bible
- Matthew Henry Concise Commentary
- Tyndale Open Study Notes
- Jamieson–Fausset–Brown Commentary
- Rashi on Tanakh
- Keil & Delitzsch Commentary
- John Wesley’s Notes
- Darby Translation Notes
- Geneva Bible Translation Notes
- Kingcomments
- Matthew Henry’s Complete Commentary
- Matthew Henry’s Modern English Commentary
- Scofield Reference Notes, 1917 Edition
- Seventh-day Adventist Bible Commentary
- EGW Writings
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