Tree of Life Version
Proverbs 6:21
21Bind them on your heart continually— tie them around your neck.
Proverbs 6:21 in other versions
- King James Version (KJV)Bind them continually upon thine heart, and tie them about thy neck.
- New International Version (NIV)Bind them always on your heart; fasten them around your neck.
- English Standard Version (ESV)Bind them on your heart always; tie them around your neck.
- New King James Version (NKJV)Bind them continually upon your heart; Tie them around your neck.
Context of Proverbs 6:21
19a false witness who spouts lies, and one who stirs up strife among brothers. 20My son, keep your father’s mitzvah, and forsake not your mother’s teaching. Bind them on your heart continually— tie them around your neck. 22When you walk, they will guide you. When you lie down, they will watch over you, and when you wake up, they will speak to you. 23For the mitzvah is a lamp, Torah a light, and corrective discipline the way of life,
Read all of Proverbs 6Proverbs 6:21 word by word
קָשְׁרֵ֣ם עַל־לִבְּךָ֣ תָמִ֑יד עָ֝נְדֵ֗ם עַל־גַּרְגְּרֹתֶֽךָ׃Read the interlinear
Words taken from the KJV.
Cross-references for Proverbs 6:21
- Proverbs 3:3Let kindness and truth never leave you— bind them around your neck, write them on the tablet of your heart.
- Proverbs 4:6Do not forsake her, and she will guard you. Love her, and she will watch over you.
- Proverbs 7:3Bind them on your fingers, write them on the tablet of your heart.
- Exodus 13:16So it will be like a sign on your hand and like frontlets between your eyes, for by a strong hand Adonai brought us out of Egypt.”
- Deuteronomy 6:8Bind them as a sign on your hand, they are to be as frontlets between your eyes,
- 2 Corinthians 3:3It is clear that you are a letter from Messiah delivered by us—written not with ink but with the Ruach of the living God, not on tablets of stone but on tablets of human hearts.
Commentaries on Proverbs 6:21
- Adam Clarke Bible Commentary · v. 21Bind them continually upon thine heart - See on Proverbs 3:3; (note). And see a similar command, to which this is an allusion, Deuteronomy 6:6-8; (note).Read the comment
- Barnes’ Notes on the Bible · v. 21The thought of Proverbs 3:3 is carried step further. No outward charm, but the law of obedience, shall give safety to the traveler, when he sleeps or when he wakes.Read the comment
- Matthew Henry Concise Commentary · v. 20-35Verses 20-35 The word of God has something to say to us upon all occasions. Let not faithful reproofs ever make us uneasy. When we consider how much this sin abounds, how heinous adultery is in its own nature, of what evil consequence it is, and how certainly it destroys the spiritual life in the soul, we shall not wonder that the cautions against it are so often repeated. Let us notice the subjects of this chapter. Let us remember Him who willingly…Read the comment
- Tyndale Open Study Notes · v. 20-35This passage highlights the serious danger of having a relationship with another man's wife (see also Proverbs 1:8, 23; 2:16–22; 5:1–23; 7:1–27).Read the comment
- Jamieson–Fausset–Brown Commentary · v. 20-2320-23. (Compare Pr 1:8; 3:3, &c.).Read the comment
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Commentaries on Proverbs 6
- 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
- Seventh-day Adventist Bible Commentary
- EGW Writings
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