Proverbs 1:9
so that grace may be added to your head and a collar to your neck.
Catholic Public Domain Version
In The King James Version
For they shall be an ornament of grace unto thy head, and chains about thy neck.
In Context
8Listen, my son, to the discipline of your father, and forsake not the law of your mother,
10My son, if sinners should entice you, do not consent to them.
Cross References
Proverbs 3:22And so shall there be life in your soul and grace in your voice.
Proverbs 6:20My son, preserve the precepts of your father, and do not dismiss the law of your mother.
Song of Solomon 4:9You have wounded my heart, my sister, my spouse. You have wounded my heart with one look of your eyes, and with one lock of hair on your neck.
Ezekiel 16:11I adorned you with ornaments, and I put bracelets upon your hands and a necklace around your neck.
Daniel 5:16Furthermore, I have heard about you that you can interpret obscure things and solve difficulties. So then, if you succeed in reading the writing, and in revealing its interpretation, you will be clothed with purple, and you will have a chain of gold around your neck, and you will be the third leader in my kingdom.”
1 Timothy 2:9Similarly also, women should be dressed fittingly, adorning themselves with compunction and restraint, and not with plaited hair, nor gold, nor pearls, nor costly attire,
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 →