Besides, you only arrived yesterday; should I make you wander around with us today while I go wherever I can? Go back and take your brothers with you. May the Lord show you kindness and faithfulness.’
Proverbs 3:3 - Christian Standard Bible Anglicised Never let loyalty and faithfulness leave you. Tie them round your neck; write them on the tablet of your 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: |
Besides, you only arrived yesterday; should I make you wander around with us today while I go wherever I can? Go back and take your brothers with you. May the Lord show you kindness and faithfulness.’
Let it serve as a sign for you on your hand and as a reminder on your forehead, , so that the Lord’s instruction may be in your mouth; for the Lord brought you out of Egypt with a strong hand.
The Lord passed in front of him and proclaimed: The Lord #– #the Lord is a compassionate and gracious God, slow to anger and abounding in faithful love and truth,
for they will be a garland of favour on your head and pendants round your neck.
Don’t those who plan evil go astray? But those who plan good find loyalty and faithfulness.
Iniquity is atoned for by loyalty and faithfulness, and one turns from evil by the fear of the Lord.
Loyalty and faithfulness guard a king; through loyalty he maintains his throne.
The sin of Judah is inscribed with an iron stylus. With a diamond point it is engraved on the tablet of their hearts and on the horns of their altars,
Hear the word of the Lord, people of Israel, for the Lord has a case against the inhabitants of the land: There is no truth, no faithful love, and no knowledge of God in the land!
True instruction was in his mouth, and nothing wrong was found on his lips. He walked with me in peace and integrity and turned many from iniquity.
‘Woe to you, scribes and Pharisees, hypocrites! You pay a tenth of mint, dill, and cumin, and yet you have neglected the more important matters of the law #– #justice, mercy, and faithfulness. These things should have been done without neglecting the others.
You show that you are Christ’s letter, delivered by us, not written with ink but with the Spirit of the living God #– #not on tablets of stone but on tablets of human hearts. ,
for the fruit of the light consists of all goodness, righteousness, and truth #– #
Bind them as a sign on your hand and let them be a symbol on your forehead. ,
This is the covenant I will make with them after those days, the Lord says, I will put my laws on their hearts and write them on their minds,