Proverbs 7:3
Let them be fixed to your fingers, and recorded in your heart.
Bible in Basic English
In The King James Version
Bind them upon thy fingers, write them upon the table of thine heart.
In Context
2Keep my rules and you will have life; let my teaching be to you as the light of your eyes;
4Say to wisdom, You are my sister; let knowledge be named your special friend:
Cross References
Deuteronomy 6:8Let them be fixed as a sign on your hand, and marked on your brow;
Proverbs 3:3Let not mercy and good faith go from you; let them be hanging round your neck, recorded on your heart;
Proverbs 6:21Keep them ever folded in your heart, and have them hanging round your neck.
Isaiah 59:21And as for me, this is my agreement with them, says the Lord: my spirit which is on you, and my words which I have put in your mouth, will not go away from your mouth, or from the mouth of your seed, or from the mouth of your seed's seed, says the Lord, from now and for ever.
Jeremiah 31:33But this is the agreement which I will make with the people of Israel after those days, says the Lord; I will put my law in their inner parts, writing it in their hearts; and I will be their God, and they will be my people.
Matthew Henry on Proverbs 7:2-6
The Word of God Recommended. 1 My son, keep my words, and lay up my commandments with thee. 2 Keep my commandments, and live; and my law as the apple of thine eye. 3 Bind them upon thy fingers, write them upon the table of thine heart. 4 Say unto wisdom, Thou art my sister; and call understanding thy kinswoman: 5 That they may keep thee from the strange woman, from the stranger which flattereth with her words. These verses are an introduction to his warning against fleshly lusts, much the same with that, ch. vi.… Read the whole commentary →