Proverbs 7:3
BSB · Public Domain (CC0)“Tie them to your fingers; write them on the tablet of your heart.”
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BSBPD
“Tie them to your fingers; write them on the tablet of your heart.”
Berean Standard Bible · Public Domain (CC0)KJVPD
“Bind them upon thy fingers, write them upon the table of thine heart.”
King James Version · Public DomainASVPD
“Bind them upon thy fingers; Write them upon the tablet of thy heart.”
American Standard Version · Public DomainYLTPD
“Bind them on thy fingers, Write them on the tablet of thy heart.”
Young's Literal Translation · Public DomainCross references
Other passages that echo Proverbs 7:3 — 10 related verses from the Treasury of Scripture Knowledge.
- Deuteronomy 6:8Tie them as reminders on your hands and bind them on your foreheads.
- Deuteronomy 11:18Fix these words of mine in your hearts and minds; tie 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 4:21Do not lose sight of them; keep them within your heart.
- Proverbs 6:21Bind them always upon your heart; tie them around your neck.
- Isaiah 30:8Go now, write it on a tablet in their presence and inscribe it on a scroll; it will be for the days to come, a witness forever and ever.
- Isaiah 59:21“As for Me, this is My covenant with them,” says the LORD. “My Spirit will not depart from you, and My words that I have put in your mouth will not depart from your mouth or from the mouths of your children and grandchildren, from now on and forevermore,” says the LORD.
- Jeremiah 17:1“The sin of Judah is written with an iron stylus, engraved with a diamond point on the tablets of their hearts and on the horns of their altars.
- Jeremiah 31:33“But this is the covenant I will make with the house of Israel after those days, declares the LORD. I will put My law in their minds and inscribe it on their hearts. And I will be their God, and they will be My people.
- 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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