Proverbs 1:9
For they shall be an ornament of grace unto your head, and chains about your neck.
Updated King James Version
In The King James Version
For they shall be an ornament of grace unto thy head, and chains about thy neck.
In Context
8My son, hear the instruction of your father, and forsake not the law of your mother:
10My son, if sinners entice you, consent you not.
Cross References
Proverbs 3:22So shall they be life unto your soul, and grace to your neck.
Proverbs 6:20My son, keep your father's commandment, and forsake not the law of your mother:
Song of Solomon 4:9You have ravished my heart, my sister, my spouse; you have ravished my heart with one of yours eyes, with one chain of your neck.
Ezekiel 16:11I decked you also with ornaments, and I put bracelets upon your hands, and a chain on your neck.
Daniel 5:16And I have heard of you, that you can make interpretations, and dissolve doubts: now if you can read the writing, and make known to me the interpretation thereof, you shall be clothed with scarlet, and have a chain of gold about your neck, and shall be the third ruler in the kingdom.
1 Timothy 2:9In like manner also, that women adorn themselves in modest apparel, with reverence and sobriety; not with braided hair, or gold, or pearls, or costly array;
Matthew Henry on Proverbs 1:8-10
Parental Admonitions. 7 The fear of the Lord is the beginning of knowledge: but fools despise wisdom and instruction. 8 My son, hear the instruction of thy father, and forsake not the law of thy mother: 9 For they shall be an ornament of grace unto thy head, and chains about thy neck. Solomon, having undertaken to teach a young man knowledge and discretion, here lays down two general rules to be observed in order thereunto, and those are, to fear God and honour his parents, which two fundamental laws of morality… Read the whole commentary →