Proverbs 7:3
Bind them on thy fingers, Write them on the tablet of thy heart.
Young's Literal Translation
In The King James Version
Bind them upon thy fingers, write them upon the table of thine heart.
In Context
2Keep my commands, and live, And my law as the pupil of thine eye.
4Say to wisdom, 'My sister Thou [art].' And cry to understanding, 'Kinswoman!'
Cross References
Deuteronomy 6:8and hast bound them for a sign upon thy hand, and they have been for frontlets between thine eyes,
Proverbs 3:3Let not kindness and truth forsake thee, Bind them on thy neck, Write them on the tablet of thy heart,
Proverbs 6:21Bind them on thy heart continually, Tie them on thy neck.
Isaiah 59:21And I — this [is] My covenant with them, said Jehovah, My Spirit that [is] on thee, And My words that I have put in thy mouth, Depart not from thy mouth, And from the mouth of thy seed, And from the mouth of thy seed's seed, said Jehovah, From henceforth unto the age!
Jeremiah 31:33For this [is] the covenant that I make, With the house of Israel, after those days, An affirmation of Jehovah, I have given My law in their inward part, And on their heart I do write it, And I have been to them for God, And they are to me for a 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 →