Proverbs 6:21
Bind them continually on your heart. 2 Tie them around your neck. 1
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In The King James Version
Bind them continually upon thine heart, and tie them about thy neck.
In Context
20My son, keep your father’s mitzvah ·instruction·, 2 and don’t forsake your mother’s teaching. 1
Cross References
Exodus 13:9It shall be for a sign to you on your hand, and for a memorial between your eyes, that Adonai’s Torah ·Teaching· may be in your mouth; for with a strong hand Adonai has brought you out of Egypt [Abode of slavery].
Deuteronomy 6:8+ 6:8. Deut 6:8 (Deut 6:4-9, 11:18) (#1.35): T. To bind God’s Instructions (Deut 11:8) as a sign on your hands / R. To wear tefillin ·phylacteries· on the arm You shall bind them for a sign on your hand, + 6:8. Deut 6:8 (Deut 6:4-9, 11:18) (#1.36): T. To bind God’s Instructions (Deut 11:8) as frontlets between your eyes / R. To wear tefillin ·phylacteries· on the head, on your forehead and they shall be for frontlets between your eyes.
Proverbs 4:6Don’t forsake her, and she will preserve you. 2 'Ahav ·Affectionately love· her, and she will keep you. 1
Proverbs 7:3Bind them on your fingers. 2 Write them on the tablet of your heart. 1
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 →