Proverbs 7:3
Bind them on your fingers.Write them on the tablet of your heart.
New Heart English Bible
In The King James Version
Bind them upon thy fingers, write them upon the table of thine heart.
In Context
2Keep my commandments and live!Guard my teaching as the apple of your eye.
4Tell wisdom, "You are my sister."Call understanding your relative,
Cross References
Deuteronomy 6:8You shall bind them for a sign on your hand, and they shall be for symbols between your eyes.
Proverbs 3:3Do not let kindness and truth forsake you.Bind them around your neck.Write them on the tablet of your heart.
Proverbs 6:21Bind them continually on your heart.Tie them around your neck.
Isaiah 59:21"As for me, this is my covenant with them," says the Lord. "My Spirit who is on you, and my words which I have put in your mouth, shall not depart out of your mouth, nor out of the mouth of your seed, nor out of the mouth of your seed's seed," says the Lord, "from henceforth and forever."
Jeremiah 31:33"But this is the covenant that I will make with the house of Israel after those days," says the Lord: "I will put my law in their inward parts, and in their heart will I write it; and I will be their God, and they shall 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 →