Proverbs 6:21
BSB · Public Domain (CC0)“Bind them always upon your heart; tie them around your neck.”
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BSBPD
“Bind them always upon your heart; tie them around your neck.”
Berean Standard Bible · Public Domain (CC0)KJVPD
“Bind them continually upon thine heart, and tie them about thy neck.”
King James Version · Public DomainASVPD
“Bind them continually upon thy heart; Tie them about thy neck.”
American Standard Version · Public DomainYLTPD
“Bind them on thy heart continually, Tie them on thy neck.”
Young's Literal Translation · Public DomainCross references
Other passages that echo Proverbs 6:21 — 8 related verses from the Treasury of Scripture Knowledge.
- Exodus 13:9It shall be a sign for you on your hand and a reminder on your forehead that the Law of the LORD is to be on your lips. For with a mighty hand the LORD brought you out of Egypt.
- Exodus 13:16So it shall serve as a sign on your hand and a symbol on your forehead, for with a mighty hand the LORD brought us out of Egypt.”
- Deuteronomy 6:8Tie them as reminders on your hands and bind them on your foreheads.
- Proverbs 3:3Never let loving devotion or faithfulness leave you; bind them around your neck, write them on the tablet of your heart.
- Proverbs 4:6Do not forsake wisdom, and she will preserve you; love her, and she will guard you.
- Proverbs 4:21Do not lose sight of them; keep them within your heart.
- Proverbs 7:3Tie them to your fingers; write them on the tablet of your heart.
- 2 Corinthians 3:3It is clear that you are a letter from Christ, the result of our ministry, written not with ink but with the Spirit of the living God, not on tablets of stone but on tablets of human hearts.
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