Proverbs 1:9
For they will be a crown of grace for your head, and chain-ornaments about your neck.
Bible in Basic English
In The King James Version
For they shall be an ornament of grace unto thy head, and chains about thy neck.
In Context
8My son, give ear to the training of your father, and do not give up the teaching of your mother:
10My son, if sinners would take you out of the right way, do not go with them.
Cross References
Proverbs 3:22So they will be life for your soul, and grace for your neck.
Proverbs 6:20My son, keep the rule of your father, and have in memory the teaching of your mother:
Song of Solomon 4:9You have taken away my heart, my sister, my bride; you have taken away my heart, with one look you have taken it, with one chain of your neck!
Ezekiel 16:11And I made you fair with ornaments and put jewels on your hands and a chain on your neck.
Daniel 5:16And I have had news of you, that you have the power of making things clear, and of answering hard questions: now if you are able to make out the writing and give me the sense of it, you will be clothed in purple and have a gold chain round your neck and be a ruler of high authority in the kingdom.
1 Timothy 2:9And that women may be dressed in simple clothing, with a quiet and serious air; not with twisted hair and gold or jewels or robes of great price;
Matthew Henry on Proverbs 1:8-10
Parental Admonitions. 7 The fear of the Lord is the beginning of knowledge: but fools despise wisdom and instruction. 8 My son, hear the instruction of thy father, and forsake not the law of thy mother: 9 For they shall be an ornament of grace unto thy head, and chains about thy neck. Solomon, having undertaken to teach a young man knowledge and discretion, here lays down two general rules to be observed in order thereunto, and those are, to fear God and honour his parents, which two fundamental laws of morality… Read the whole commentary →