Proverbs 7:3
Tie them to your fingers; write them in your mind.
Free Bible Version
In The King James Version
Bind them upon thy fingers, write them upon the table of thine heart.
In Context
2Do what I tell you and you will live. Observe my teachings, valuing them as your main focus in life.
4Tell wisdom, “You're my sister,” and call insight your best friend.
Cross References
Deuteronomy 6:8Tie them on your hands as reminders and put them on your foreheads as well.
Proverbs 3:3Hold on to kindness and truth. Tie them around your neck; write them in your mind.
Proverbs 6:21Keep them always in mind. Tie them around your neck.
Isaiah 59:21This is my agreement with them, says the Lord. My Spirit, who is upon you, won't leave you, and my words that I have given you to speak will always be on your lips, on the lips of your children, and on the lips of your descendants, from now until forever, says the Lord.
Jeremiah 31:33But this is the agreement I'm going to make with the people of Israel at that time, declares the Lord. I will put my laws inside them and write them in their minds. 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 →