Proverbs 3:22

Bible in Basic English (1941)

So they will be life for your soul, and grace for your neck.

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Referenced Verses

  • Prov 1:9 : 9 For they will be a crown of grace for your head, and chain-ornaments about your neck.
  • Prov 4:22 : 22 For they are life to him who gets them, and strength to all his flesh.
  • Isa 38:16 : 16 O Lord, for this cause I am waiting for you, give rest to my spirit: make me well again, and let me come back to life.
  • John 12:49-50 : 49 For I have not said it on my authority, but the Father who sent me gave me orders what to say and how to say it. 50 And I have knowledge that his order is eternal life: so that the things which I say, I say them even as the Father says them to me.

Similar Verses (AI)

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  • 9For they will be a crown of grace for your head, and chain-ornaments about your neck.

  • Prov 3:1-4
    4 verses
    80%

    1My son, keep my teaching in your memory, and my rules in your heart:

    2For they will give you increase of days, years of life, and peace.

    3Let not mercy and good faith go from you; let them be hanging round your neck, recorded on your heart;

    4So you will have grace and a good name in the eyes of God and men.

  • Prov 4:20-23
    4 verses
    79%

    20My son, give attention to my words; let your ear be turned to my sayings.

    21Let them not go from your eyes; keep them deep in your heart.

    22For they are life to him who gets them, and strength to all his flesh.

    23And keep watch over your heart with all care; so you will have life.

  • 21My son, keep good sense, and do not let wise purpose go from your eyes.

  • Prov 6:21-22
    2 verses
    77%

    21Keep them ever folded in your heart, and have them hanging round your neck.

    22In your walking, it will be your guide; when you are sleeping, it will keep watch over you; when you are awake, it will have talk with you.

  • 18For it is a delight to keep them in your heart, to have them ready on your lips.

  • 23Then you will go safely on your way, and your feet will have no cause for slipping.

  • 8This will give strength to your flesh, and new life to your bones.

  • Prov 2:10-11
    2 verses
    73%

    10For wisdom will come into your heart, and knowledge will be pleasing to your soul;

    11Wise purposes will be watching over you, and knowledge will keep you;

  • Prov 4:8-10
    3 verses
    72%

    8Put her in a high place, and you will be lifted up by her; she will give you honour, when you give her your love.

    9She will put a crown of grace on your head, giving you a head-dress of glory.

    10Give ear, O my son, and let your heart be open to my sayings; and long life will be yours.

  • Prov 4:12-13
    2 verses
    71%

    12When you go, your way will not be narrow, and in running you will not have a fall.

    13Take learning in your hands, do not let her go: keep her, for she is your life.

  • 14So let your desire be for wisdom: if you have it, there will be a future, and your hope will not be cut off.

  • Prov 3:16-18
    3 verses
    71%

    16Long life is in her right hand, and in her left are wealth and honour.

    17Her ways are ways of delight, and all her goings are peace.

    18She is a tree of life to all who take her in their hands, and happy is everyone who keeps her.

  • 3Let them be fixed to your fingers, and recorded in your heart.

  • 11For by me your days will be increased, and the years of your life will be long.

  • 22The deep is boiling like a pot of spices, and the sea like a perfume-vessel.

  • 18So keep these words deep in your heart and in your soul, and have them fixed on your hand for a sign and marked on your brow;

  • 3So that all may be well for you, and your life may be long on the earth.

  • 35For whoever gets me gets life, and grace from the Lord will come to him.

  • 24Pleasing words are like honey, sweet to the soul and new life to the bones.

  • 2So that you may be ruled by a wise purpose, and your lips may keep knowledge.

  • 5Thorns and nets are in the way of the twisted: he who keeps watch over his soul will be far from them.

  • Prov 2:1-2
    2 verses
    68%

    1My son, if you will take my words to your heart, storing up my laws in your mind;

    2So that your ear gives attention to wisdom, and your heart is turned to knowledge;

  • 6Do not give her up, and she will keep you; give her your love, and she will make you safe.

  • 19Give ear, my son, and be wise, guiding your heart in the right way.

  • 10For it is said, Let the man who has a love of life, desiring to see good days, keep his tongue from evil and his lips from words of deceit:

  • 20So that you may go in the way of good men, and keep in the footsteps of the upright.

  • 25Keep your eyes on what is in front of you, looking straight before you.

  • 2You are fairer than the children of men; grace is flowing through your lips; for this cause the blessing of God is with you for ever.

  • 24Acting wisely is the way of life, guiding a man away from the underworld.

  • 17Give your son training, and he will give you rest; he will give delight to your soul.

  • 11By them is your servant made conscious of danger, and in keeping them there is great reward.

  • 10Your face is a delight with rings of hair, your neck with chains of jewels.

  • 16And my thoughts in me will be full of joy when your lips say right things.

  • 19To keep their souls from death; and to keep them living in time of need.

  • 28In the road of righteousness is life, but the way of the evil-doer goes to death.