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Wednesday, June 18th, 2025
the Week of Proper 6 / Ordinary 11
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Proverbs 6:21

Bind them on your heart continually; fasten them around your neck.

Bible Study Resources

Concordances:

- Nave's Topical Bible - Commandments;   Word of God;   Young Men;   The Topic Concordance - Children;   Commandment;   Life;   Obedience;  

Dictionaries:

- Fausset Bible Dictionary - Earrings;   Frontlets;   Hastings' Dictionary of the Bible - Proverbs, Book of;   People's Dictionary of the Bible - Proverbs book of;   Watson's Biblical & Theological Dictionary - Phylacteries;  

Encyclopedias:

- International Standard Bible Encyclopedia - Amulet;   Neck;   The Jewish Encyclopedia - Phylacteries;  

Parallel Translations

Christian Standard Bible®
Always bind them to your heart;tie them around your neck.
Hebrew Names Version
Bind them continually on your heart. Tie them around your neck.
King James Version
Bind them continually upon thine heart, and tie them about thy neck.
English Standard Version
Bind them on your heart always; tie them around your neck.
New Century Version
Keep their words in mind forever as though you had them tied around your neck.
Amplified Bible
Bind them continually upon your heart (in your thoughts), And tie them around your neck.
New American Standard Bible
Bind them continually on your heart; Tie them around your neck.
World English Bible
Bind them continually on your heart. Tie them around your neck.
Geneva Bible (1587)
Binde them alway vpon thine heart, and tye them about thy necke.
Legacy Standard Bible
Bind them continually on your heart;Tie them around your neck.
Berean Standard Bible
Bind them always upon your heart; tie them around your neck.
Contemporary English Version
always keep it in mind and never forget it.
Complete Jewish Bible
Bind them always on your heart, tie them around your neck.
Darby Translation
bind them continually upon thy heart, tie them about thy neck:
Easy-to-Read Version
Remember their words always. Tie them around your neck and keep them over your heart.
George Lamsa Translation
Impress them firmly on your heart and tie them about your neck.
Good News Translation
Lexham English Bible
Bind them on your heart continually; tie them upon your neck.
Literal Translation
Bind them to your heart forever; tie them around your neck.
Miles Coverdale Bible (1535)
Put the vp together in thine herte, and bynde the aboute thy necke.
American Standard Version
Bind them continually upon thy heart; Tie them about thy neck.
Bible in Basic English
Keep them ever folded in your heart, and have them hanging round your neck.
JPS Old Testament (1917)
Bind them continually upon thy heart, tie them about thy neck.
King James Version (1611)
Binde them continually vpon thine heart, and tie them about thy necke.
Bishop's Bible (1568)
Tye them continually in thyne heart, and bynde them about thy necke.
Brenton's Septuagint (LXX)
but bind them upon thy soul continually, and hang them as a chain about thy neck.
English Revised Version
Bind them continually upon thine heart, tie them about thy neck.
Wycliffe Bible (1395)
Bynde thou tho continueli in thin herte; and cumpasse `to thi throte.
Update Bible Version
Bind them continually on your heart; Tie them about your neck.
Webster's Bible Translation
Bind them continually upon thy heart, [and] tie them about thy neck.
New King James Version
Bind them continually upon your heart; Tie them around your neck.
New Living Translation
Keep their words always in your heart. Tie them around your neck.
New Life Bible
Hold them always to your heart. Tie them around your neck.
New Revised Standard
Bind them upon your heart always; tie them around your neck.
J.B. Rotherham Emphasized Bible
Bind them upon thy heart continually, fasten them upon thy neck;
Douay-Rheims Bible
Bind them in thy heart continually, and put them about thy neck.
Revised Standard Version
Bind them upon your heart always; tie them about your neck.
Young's Literal Translation
Bind them on thy heart continually, Tie them on thy neck.
New American Standard Bible (1995)
Bind them continually on your heart; Tie them around your neck.

Contextual Overview

20 My child, guard the commands of your father and do not forsake the instruction of your mother. 21 Bind them on your heart continually; fasten them around your neck. 22 When you walk about, they will guide you; when you lie down, they will watch over you; when you wake up, they will talk to you. 23 For the commandments are like a lamp, instruction is like a light, and rebukes of discipline are like the road leading to life, 24 by keeping you from the evil woman, from the smooth tongue of the loose woman. 25 Do not lust in your heart for her beauty, and do not let her captivate you with her alluring eyes; 26 for on account of a prostitute one is brought down to a loaf of bread, but the wife of another man preys on your precious life. 27 Can a man hold fire against his chest without burning his clothes? 28 Can a man walk on hot coals without scorching his feet? 29 So it is with the one who has sex with his neighbor's wife; no one who touches her will escape punishment.

Bible Verse Review
  from Treasury of Scripure Knowledge

Proverbs 3:3, Proverbs 4:6, Proverbs 4:21, Proverbs 7:3, Proverbs 7:4, Exodus 13:16, Deuteronomy 6:8, 2 Corinthians 3:3

Reciprocal: Leviticus 19:3 - fear Proverbs 1:9 - they Proverbs 2:1 - hide Proverbs 4:20 - General Matthew 23:5 - they make 1 Thessalonians 5:21 - hold

Cross-References

Job 38:41
Who prepares prey for the raven, when its young cry out to God and wander about for lack of food?
Job 40:20
For the hills bring it food, where all the wild animals play.
Psalms 35:6
May their path be dark and slippery, as the Lord 's angel chases them!
Psalms 136:25
to the one who gives food to all living things, for his loyal love endures.
Psalms 145:16
You open your hand, and fill every living thing with the food they desire.
Psalms 147:9
He gives food to the animals, and to the young ravens when they chirp.
Matthew 6:26
Look at the birds in the sky: They do not sow, or reap, or gather into barns, yet your heavenly Father feeds them. Aren't you more valuable than they are?

Gill's Notes on the Bible

Bind them continually upon thine heart,.... Not upon the head or arm, as the words of the law were to be bound, Deuteronomy 6:3; to which there seems to be an allusion; and which may confirm the sense of the words given, that this respects the law of God itself, and the precepts of it, instructed in by parents; but they should be bound upon the heart, and have an abiding place in the understanding, affections, memory, and will;

[and] tie them about thy neck; as an ornament, instead of a necklace of pearl, or chains of gold; they should be so far from being thought burdensome and troublesome, that they should be reckoned comely and graceful; see Proverbs 1:9.

Barnes' Notes on the Bible

The 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.

Clarke's Notes on the Bible

Verse Proverbs 6:21. Bind them continually upon thine heart — See on Proverbs 3:3. And see a similar command, to which this is an allusion, Deuteronomy 6:6-8.


 
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