Proverbs 3:3 - The Scriptures 1998

Let not kindness and truth forsake you – Bind them around your neck, Write them on the tablet of your heart,

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King James Version (Oxford) 1769

Let not mercy and truth forsake thee: Bind them about thy neck; Write them upon the table of thine heart:

Amplified Bible - Classic Edition

Let not mercy and kindness [shutting out all hatred and selfishness] and truth [shutting out all deliberate hypocrisy or falsehood] forsake you; bind them about your neck, write them upon the tablet of your heart. [Col. 3:9-12.]

American Standard Version (1901)

Let not kindness and truth forsake thee: Bind them about thy neck; Write them upon the tablet of thy heart:

Common English Bible

Don’t let loyalty and faithfulness leave you. Bind them on your neck; write them on the tablet of your heart.

Catholic Public Domain Version

Let not mercy and truth abandon you: encircle them around your throat, and inscribe them on the tablets of your heart.

Douay-Rheims version of The Bible - 1752 version

Let not mercy and truth leave thee, put them about thy neck, and write them in the tables of thy heart:

Proverbs 3:3 Cross References

2 Samuel 15:20

“You came yesterday, and should I today make you wander up and down with us, when I am going wherever I am going? Return, and take your brothers back. Kindness and truth be with you.”

Psalm 119:11

I have treasured up Your word in my heart, That I might not sin against You.

Psalm 25:10

All the paths of יהוה  are kindness and truth, To those who guard His covenant and His witnesses.

Psalm 85:10

Kindness and truth shall meet, Righteousness and peace shall kiss.

Exodus 13:9

“And it shall be as a sign to you on your hand and as a reminder between your eyes, that the Torah of יהוה  is to be in your mouth, for with a strong hand יהוה  has brought you out of Mitsrayim.

Exodus 34:6

And יהוה  passed before him and proclaimed, “יהוה, יהוה, an Ě

Proverbs 1:9

For they are a fair wreath on your head, And chains about your neck.

Proverbs 14:22

Do not those who plan evil go astray? But kindness and truth are to those who plan good.

Proverbs 16:6

By kindness and truth crookedness is pardoned. And in the fear of יהוה  one turns away from evil.

Proverbs 20:28

Kindness and truth watch over the sovereign, And he shall support his throne by kindness.

Proverbs 6:21

Bind them on your heart always; Tie them around your neck.

Proverbs 7:3

Bind them on your fingers; Write them on the tablet of your heart.

Jeremiah 17:1

“The sin of Yehuḏ

Hosea 4:1

Hear the word of יהוה, you children of Yisra’ĕ

Malachi 2:6

“The Torah of truth was in his mouth, and unrighteousness was not found on his lips. He walked with Me in peace and straightness, and turned many away from crookedness.

Matthew 23:23

“Woe to you, scribes and Pharisees, hypocrites! Because you tithe the mint and the anise and the cumin, and have neglected the weightier matters of the Torah: the right-ruling and the compassion and the belief. These need to have been done, without neglecting the others.

2 Corinthians 3:3

making it obvious that you are a letter of Messiah, served by us, written not with ink but by the Spirit of the living Elohim, not on tablets of stone but on fleshly tablets of the heart.

Ephesians 5:9

for the fruit of the Spirit is in all goodness, and righteousness, and truth –

Deuteronomy 6:8

and shall bind them as a sign on your hand, and they shall be as frontlets between your eyes.

Hebrews 10:16

“This is the covenant that I shall make with them after those days, says יהוה, giving My laws into their hearts, and in their minds I shall write them,”