Proverbs 1:9
They are a wreath of grace to decorate your head; they are pendants for your neck.
Free Bible Version
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, pay attention to your father's instruction, and don't reject your mother's teaching.
10My son, if evil people try to tempt you, don't give into them.
Cross References
Proverbs 3:22for they will be life to you, and an ornament for your neck.
Proverbs 6:20My son, pay attention to your father's instruction, and don't reject your mother's teaching.
Song of Solomon 4:9You have stolen my heart, my sister, my bride. With just one look you stole my heart, with just one sparkle from a single one of your necklaces.
Ezekiel 16:11I gave you jewelry—I put bracelets on your wrists and a necklace around your neck.
Daniel 5:16However, I'm told that you are able to give interpretations and solve difficult problems. If you can read this writing and explain it to me, you will be clothed in purple and have a gold chain placed around your neck, and you will become the third highest ruler in the kingdom.”
1 Timothy 2:9In the same way, women should dress sensibly, modestly, and appropriately. They should be attractive not in their hairstyle or by wearing gold or pearls or expensive clothes,
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 →