Proverbs 3:3 - Revised Version with Apocrypha 1895

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

Whereas thou camest but yesterday, should I this day make thee go up and down with us, seeing I go whither I may? return thou, and take back thy brethren; mercy and truth be with thee.

Psalm 119:11

Thy word have I laid up in mine heart, That I might not sin against thee.

Psalm 25:10

All the paths of the LORD are lovingkindness and truth Unto such as keep his covenant and his testimonies.

Psalm 85:10

Mercy and truth are met together; Righteousness and peace have kissed each other.

Exodus 13:9

And it shall be for a sign unto thee upon thine hand, and for a memorial between thine eyes, that the law of the LORD may be in thy mouth: for with a strong hand hath the LORD brought thee out of Egypt.

Exodus 34:6

And the LORD passed by before him, and proclaimed, The LORD, the LORD, a God full of compassion and gracious, slow to anger, and plenteous in mercy and truth;

Proverbs 1:9

For they shall be a chaplet of grace unto thy head, And chains about thy neck.

Proverbs 14:22

Do they not err that devise evil? But mercy and truth shall be to them that devise good.

Proverbs 16:6

By mercy and truth iniquity is purged: And by the fear of the LORD men depart from evil.

Proverbs 20:28

Mercy and truth preserve the king: And his throne is upholden by mercy.

Proverbs 6:21

Bind them continually upon thine heart, Tie them about thy neck.

Proverbs 7:3

Bind them upon thy fingers; Write them upon the table of thine heart.

Jeremiah 17:1

The sin of Judah is written with a pen of iron, and with the point of a diamond: it is graven upon the table of their heart, and upon the horns of your altars;

Hosea 4:1

Hear the word of the LORD, ye children of Israel: for the LORD hath a controversy with the inhabitants of the land, because there is no truth, nor mercy, nor knowledge of God in the land.

Malachi 2:6

The law of truth was in his mouth, and unrighteousness was not found in his lips: he walked with me in peace and uprightness, and did turn many away from iniquity.

Matthew 23:23

Woe unto you, scribes and Pharisees, hypocrites! for ye tithe mint and anise and cummin, and have left undone the weightier matters of the law, judgement, and mercy, and faith: but these ye ought to have done, and not to have left the other undone.

2 Corinthians 3:3

being made manifest that ye are an epistle of Christ, ministered by us, written not with ink, but with the Spirit of the living God; not in tables of stone, but in tables that are hearts of flesh.

Ephesians 5:9

(for the fruit of the light is in all goodness and righteousness and truth),

Deuteronomy 6:8

And thou shalt bind them for a sign upon thine hand, and they shall be for frontlets between thine eyes.

Hebrews 10:16

This is the covenant that I will make with them After those days, saith the Lord; I will put my laws on their heart, And upon their mind also will I write them; then saith he,