Proverbs 6:21
Bind them on your heart continually, || Tie them on your neck.
Literal Standard Version
In The King James Version
Bind them continually upon thine heart, and tie them about thy neck.
In Context
20Keep, my son, the command of your father, || And do not leave the law of your mother.
Cross References
Exodus 13:9and it has been to you for a sign on your hand, and for a memorial between your eyes, so that the Law of YHWH is in your mouth, for by a strong hand YHWH has brought you out from Egypt;
Deuteronomy 6:8and have bound them for a sign on your hand, and they have been for frontlets between your eyes,
Proverbs 4:6Do not forsake her, and she preserves you, || Love her, and she keeps you.
Proverbs 7:3Bind them on your fingers, || Write them on the tablet of your heart.
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 →