Proverbs 6:21
Keep them always in mind. Tie them around your neck.
Free Bible Version
In The King James Version
Bind them continually upon thine heart, and tie them about thy neck.
In Context
20My son, pay attention to your father's instruction, and don't reject your mother's teaching.
Cross References
Exodus 13:9When you celebrate this ceremony it will be like a sign on your hand and a reminder between your eyes that this teaching of the Lord should be spoken about regularly. For the Lord led you out of Egypt with his great power.
Deuteronomy 6:8Tie them on your hands as reminders and put them on your foreheads as well.
Proverbs 4:6Don't give up on wisdom for she will keep you safe. Love wisdom and she will protect you.
Proverbs 7:3Tie them to your fingers; write them in your mind.
Matthew Henry on Proverbs 6:21-35
Parental Cautions; Cautions against Impurity. 20 My son, keep thy father's commandment, and forsake not the law of thy mother: 21 Bind them continually upon thine heart, and tie them about thy neck. 22 When thou goest, it shall lead thee; when thou sleepest, it shall keep thee; and when thou awakest, it shall talk with thee. 23 For the commandment is a lamp; and the law is light; and reproofs of instruction are the way of life: 24 To keep thee from the evil woman, from the flattery of the tongue of a strange… Read the whole commentary →