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.
Proverbs 3:3 - American Standard Version 2015 Let not kindness and truth forsake thee:\par\tab Bind them about thy neck;\par\tab Write them upon the tablet of thy heart: Tuilleadh leaganachaKing 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: |
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.
Thy word have I laid up in my heart,\par\tab That I might not sin against thee.
All the paths of Jehovah are lovingkindness and truth\par\tab Unto such as keep his covenant and his testimonies.
Mercy and truth are met together;\par\tab Righteousness and peace have kissed each other.
And it shall be for a sign unto thee upon thy hand, and for a memorial between thine eyes, that the law of Jehovah may be in thy mouth: for with a strong hand hath Jehovah brought thee out of Egypt.
And Jehovah passed by before him, and proclaimed, Jehovah, Jehovah, a God merciful and gracious, slow to anger, and abundant in lovingkindness and truth;
For they shall be a chaplet of grace unto thy head,\par\tab And chains about thy neck.
Do they not err that devise evil?\par\tab But mercy and truth {\i shall be to} them that devise good.
By mercy and truth iniquity is atoned for;\par\tab And by the fear of Jehovah men depart from evil.
Kindness and truth preserve the king;\par\tab And his throne is upholden by kindness.
Bind them continually upon thy heart;\par\tab Tie them about thy neck.
Bind them upon thy fingers;\par\tab Write them upon the tablet of thy heart.
The sin of Judah is written with a pen of iron, {\i and} with the point of a diamond: it is graven upon the tablet of their heart, and upon the horns of your altars;
Hear the word of Jehovah, ye children of Israel; for Jehovah hath a controversy with the inhabitants of the land, because there is no truth, nor goodness, nor knowledge of God in the land.
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 turned many away from iniquity.
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, justice, and mercy, and faith: but these ye ought to have done, and not to have left the other undone.
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 {\i that are} hearts of flesh.
(for the fruit of the light is in all goodness and righteousness and truth),
And thou shalt bind them for a sign upon thy hand, and they shall be for frontlets between thine eyes.
{\b This is the covenant that I will make with them\par\tab After those days, saith the Lord:\par\tab I will put my laws on their heart,\par\tab And upon their mind also will I write them};\par\tab {\i then saith he,}