Proverbs 3:3 Let love and faithfulness never leave you; bind them around your neck, write them on the tablet of your heart.

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Parallel Verses

New International Version
Let love and faithfulness never leave you; bind them around your neck, write them on the tablet of your heart.

English Standard Version
Let not steadfast love and faithfulness forsake you; bind them around your neck; write them on the tablet of your heart.

New American Standard Bible
Do not let kindness and truth leave you; Bind them around your neck, Write them on the tablet of your heart.

King James Bible
Let not mercy and truth forsake thee: bind them about thy neck; write them upon the table of thine heart:

Holman Christian Standard Bible
Never let loyalty and faithfulness leave you. Tie them around your neck; write them on the tablet of your heart.

International Standard Version
Do not let gracious love and truth leave you. Bind them around your neck, write them on the tablet of your heart,

American Standard Version
Let not kindness and truth forsake thee: Bind them about thy neck; Write them upon the tablet of thy heart:

Douay-Rheims Bible
Let not mercy and truth leave thee, put them about thy neck, and write them in the tables of thy heart:

Darby Bible Translation
Let not loving-kindness and truth forsake thee; bind them about thy neck, write them upon the tablet of thy heart:

Young's Literal Translation
Let not kindness and truth forsake thee, Bind them on thy neck, Write them on the tablet of thy heart,

Cross References

2 Corinthians 3:3
For as much as you are manifestly declared to be the letter of Christ ministered by us, written not with ink, but with the Spirit of the living God; not in tables of stone, but in fleshy tables of the heart.

Deuteronomy 6:8
And you shall bind them for a sign on your hand, and they shall be as frontlets between your eyes.

Deuteronomy 11:18
Therefore shall you lay up these my words in your heart and in your soul, and bind them for a sign on your hand, that they may be as frontlets between your eyes.

2 Samuel 15:20
Whereas you came but yesterday, should I this day make you go up and down with us? seeing I go where I may, return you, and take back your brothers: mercy and truth be with you.

Psalm 85:10
Mercy and truth are met together; righteousness and peace have kissed each other.

Proverbs 1:9
For they shall be an ornament of grace to your head, and chains about your neck.

Proverbs 6:21
Bind them continually on your heart, and tie them about your neck.

Proverbs 7:3
Bind them on your fingers, write them on the table of your heart.

Proverbs 14:22
Do they not err that devise evil? but mercy and truth shall be to them that devise good.

Jeremiah 17:1
The sin of Judah is written with a pen of iron, and with the point of a diamond: it is graven on the table of their heart, and on the horns of your altars;

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Commentaries

Matthew Henry's Commentary

3:1-6 In the way of believing obedience to God's commandments health and peace may commonly be enjoyed; and though our days may not be long upon earth, we shall live for ever in heaven. Let not mercy and truth forsake thee; God's mercy in promising, and his truth in performing: live up to them, keep up thine interest in them, and take the comfort of them. We must trust in the Lord with all our hearts, believing he is able and wise to do what is best. Those who know themselves, find their own understandings a broken reed, which, if they lean upon, will fail. Do not design any thing but what is lawful, and beg God to direct thee in every case, though it may seem quite plain. In all our ways that prove pleasant, in which we gain our point, we must acknowledge God with thankfulness. In all our ways that prove uncomfortable, and that are hedged up with thorns, we must acknowledge him with submission. It is promised, He shall direct thy paths; so that thy way shall be safe and good, and happy at last.

Jamieson-Fausset-Brown

3. mercy and truth—God's faithfulness to His promises is often expressed by these terms (Ps 25:10; 57:3). As attributes of men, they express integrity in a wide sense (Pr 16:6; 20:28).

bind … write … heart—outwardly adorn and inwardly govern motives.