Proverbs 6:21
Bind them continually upon yours heart, and tie them about your neck.
Updated King James Version
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 forsake not the law of your mother:
Cross References
Exodus 13:9And it shall be for a sign unto you upon yours hand, and for a memorial between yours eyes, that the LORD's law may be in your mouth: for with a strong hand has the LORD brought you out of Egypt.
Deuteronomy 6:8And you shall bind them for a sign upon yours hand, and they shall be as frontlets between yours eyes.
Proverbs 4:6Forsake her not, and she shall preserve you: love her, and she shall keep you.
Proverbs 7:3Bind them upon your fingers, write them upon the table of yours 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 →