Proverbs 6:21
Bind them continually on your heart. Tie them around your neck.
World English Bible British
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 commandment, and don’t forsake your mother’s teaching.
Cross References
Exodus 13:9It shall be for a sign to you on your hand, and for a memorial between your eyes, that the LORD’s law may be in your mouth; for with a strong hand the LORD has brought you out of Egypt.
Deuteronomy 6:8You shall bind them for a sign on your hand, and they shall be for frontlets between your eyes.
Proverbs 4:6Don’t forsake her, and she will preserve you. Love her, and she will keep 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 →