Proverbs 7:3
Bind them upon your fingers, write them upon the table of yours heart.
Updated King James Version
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; and my law as the apple of yours eye.
4Say unto wisdom, You are my sister; and call understanding your kinswoman:
Cross References
Deuteronomy 6:8And you shall bind them for a sign upon yours hand, and they shall be as frontlets between yours eyes.
Proverbs 3:3Let not mercy and truth forsake you: bind them about your neck; write them upon the table of yours heart:
Proverbs 6:21Bind them continually upon yours heart, and tie them about your neck.
Isaiah 59:21As for me, this is my covenant with them, says the LORD; My spirit that is upon 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 for ever.
Jeremiah 31:33But this shall be 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 write it in their hearts; and 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 →