Proverbs 3:3
Don’t let kindness and truth forsake you. Bind them around your neck. Write them on the tablet of your heart.
World Messianic Bible British
In The King James Version
In Context
2for they will add to you length of days, years of life, and peace.
4So you will find favour, and good understanding in the sight of God and man.
Cross References
Exodus 34:6The LORD passed by before him, and proclaimed, “The LORD! The LORD, a merciful and gracious God, slow to anger, and abundant in loving kindness and truth,
Deuteronomy 11:18Therefore you shall lay up these words of mine in your heart and in your soul. You shall bind them for a sign on your hand, and they shall be for frontlets between your eyes.
Psalms 25:10All the paths of the LORD are loving kindness and truth to such as keep his covenant and his testimonies.
Proverbs 1:9for they will be a garland to grace your head, and chains around your neck.
Proverbs 7:3Bind them on your fingers. Write them on the tablet of your heart.
Proverbs 20:28Love and faithfulness keep the king safe. His throne is sustained by love.
Matthew Henry on Proverbs 3:2-7
Communion Conferred by Wisdom. 1 My son, forget not my law; but let thine heart keep my commandments: 2 For length of days, and long life, and peace, shall they add to thee. 3 Let not mercy and truth forsake thee: bind them about thy neck; write them upon the table of thine heart: 4 So shalt thou find favour and good understanding in the sight of God and man. 5 Trust in the Lord with all thine heart; and lean not unto thine own understanding. 6 In all thy ways acknowledge him, and he shall direct thy paths. We are… Read the whole commentary →