Proverbs 3:3 - Revised Standard Version (RSV-CI)

³ Let not loyalty and faithfulness forsake you; bind them about your neck, write them on the tablet of your heart.

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King James Version (Oxford) 1769

³ Let not mercy and truth forsake thee: Bind them about thy neck; Write them upon the table of thine heart:

Amplified Bible - Classic Edition

³ 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)

³ Let not kindness and truth forsake thee: Bind them about thy neck; Write them upon the tablet of thy heart:

Common English Bible

³ 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

³ 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

³ 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 only yesterday, and shall I today make you wander about with us, seeing I go I know not where? Go back, and take your brethren with you; and may the Lord show steadfast love and faithfulness to you.”

Psalm 119:11

I have laid up thy word in my heart, that I might not sin against thee.

Psalm 25:10

All the paths of the Lord are steadfast love and faithfulness, for those who keep his covenant and his testimonies.

Psalm 85:10

Steadfast love and faithfulness will meet; righteousness and peace will kiss each other.

Exodus 13:9

And it shall be to you as a sign on your hand and as a memorial between your eyes, that the law of the Lord may be in your mouth; for with a strong hand the Lord has brought you out of Egypt.

Exodus 34:6

The Lord passed before him, and proclaimed, “The Lord, the Lord, a God merciful and gracious, slow to anger, and abounding in steadfast love and faithfulness,

Proverbs 1:9

for they are a fair garland for your head, and pendants for your neck.

Proverbs 14:22

Do they not err that devise evil? Those who devise good meet loyalty and faithfulness.

Proverbs 16:6

By loyalty and faithfulness iniquity is atoned for, and by the fear of the Lord a man avoids evil.

Proverbs 20:28

Loyalty and faithfulness preserve the king, and his throne is upheld by righteousness.

Proverbs 6:21

Bind them upon your heart always; tie them about your neck.

Proverbs 7:3

bind them on your fingers, write them on the tablet of your heart.

Jeremiah 17:1

“The sin of Judah is written with a pen of iron; with a point of diamond it is engraved on the tablet of their heart, and on the horns of their altars,

Hosea 4:1

Hear the word of the Lord, O people of Israel; for the Lord has a controversy with the inhabitants of the land. There is no faithfulness or kindness, and no knowledge of God in the land;

Malachi 2:6

True instruction was in his mouth, and no wrong was found on his lips. He walked with me in peace and uprightness, and he turned many from iniquity.

Matthew 23:23

“Woe to you, scribes and Pharisees, hypocrites! for you tithe mint and dill and cummin, and have neglected the weightier matters of the law, justice and mercy and faith; these you ought to have done, without neglecting the others.

2 Corinthians 3:3

and you show that you are a letter from Christ delivered by us, written not with ink but with the Spirit of the living God, not on tablets of stone but on tablets of human hearts.

Ephesians 5:9

(for the fruit of light is found in all that is good and right and true),

Deuteronomy 6:8

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

Hebrews 10:16

“This is the covenant that I will make with them after those days, says the Lord: I will put my laws on their hearts, and write them on their minds,”