Proverbs 6:21

Bible in Basic English (1941)

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

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Referenced Verses

  • Prov 3:3 : 3 Let not mercy and good faith go from you; let them be hanging round your neck, recorded on your heart;
  • Prov 4:6 : 6 Do not give her up, and she will keep you; give her your love, and she will make you safe.
  • Prov 4:21 : 21 Let them not go from your eyes; keep them deep in your heart.
  • Prov 7:3-4 : 3 Let them be fixed to your fingers, and recorded in your heart. 4 Say to wisdom, You are my sister; let knowledge be named your special friend:
  • 2 Cor 3:3 : 3 For you are clearly a letter of Christ, the fruit of our work, recorded not with ink, but with the Spirit of the living God; not in stone, but in hearts of flesh.
  • Exod 13:16 : 16 And this will be for a sign on your hand and for a mark on your brow: for by the strength of his hand the Lord took us out of Egypt.
  • Deut 6:8 : 8 Let them be fixed as a sign on your hand, and marked on your brow;

Similar Verses (AI)

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  • Prov 6:20
    84%

    20 My son, keep the rule of your father, and have in memory the teaching of your mother:

  • Prov 7:1-3
    3 verses
    82%

    1 My son, keep my sayings, and let my rules be stored up with you.

    2 Keep my rules and you will have life; let my teaching be to you as the light of your eyes;

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

  • Prov 6:22-25
    4 verses
    81%

    22 In 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.

    23 For the rule is a light, and the teaching a shining light; and the guiding words of training are the way of life.

    24 They will keep you from the evil woman, from the smooth tongue of the strange woman.

    25 Let not your heart's desire go after her fair body; let not her eyes take you prisoner.

  • Prov 3:1-3
    3 verses
    81%

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

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

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

  • Prov 4:20-23
    4 verses
    81%

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

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

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

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

  • Prov 1:8-9
    2 verses
    81%

    8 My son, give ear to the training of your father, and do not give up the teaching of your mother:

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

  • Deut 6:6-9
    4 verses
    80%

    6 Keep these words, which I say to you this day, deep in your hearts;

    7 Teaching them to your children with all care, talking of them when you are at rest in your house or walking by the way, when you go to sleep and when you get up.

    8 Let them be fixed as a sign on your hand, and marked on your brow;

    9 Have them lettered on the pillars of your houses and over the doors of your towns.

  • Deut 11:18-20
    3 verses
    79%

    18 So 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;

    19 Teaching them to your children, and talking of them when you are at rest in your house or walking by the way, when you go to sleep and when you get up:

    20 Writing them on the pillars of your houses and over the doors of your towns:

  • Prov 3:21-22
    2 verses
    77%

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

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

  • Prov 4:4-6
    3 verses
    75%

    4 And he gave me teaching, saying to me, Keep my words in your heart; keep my rules so that you may have life:

    5 Get wisdom, get true knowledge; keep it in memory, do not be turned away from the words of my mouth.

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

  • Prov 22:18
    74%

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

  • Prov 23:26
    74%

    26 My son, give me your heart, and let your eyes take delight in my ways.

  • Prov 2:1-2
    2 verses
    73%

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

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

  • Prov 22:6
    73%

    6 If a child is trained up in the right way, even when he is old he will not be turned away from it.

  • Prov 4:13
    73%

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

  • Prov 5:19-20
    2 verses
    72%

    19 As a loving hind and a gentle doe, let her breasts ever give you rapture; let your passion at all times be moved by her love.

    20 Why let yourself, my son, go out of the way with a strange woman, and take another woman in your arms?

  • Prov 23:19
    71%

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

  • Prov 23:22
    70%

    22 Give ear to your father whose child you are, and do not keep honour from your mother when she is old.

  • Deut 32:46
    70%

    46 Moses said to them, Let the words which I have said to you today go deep into your hearts, and give orders to your children to do every word of this law.

  • Eph 6:3
    70%

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

  • Prov 23:12
    70%

    12 Give your heart to teaching, and your ears to the words of knowledge.

  • Prov 5:1
    70%

    1 My son, give attention to my wisdom; let your ear be turned to my teaching:

  • Exod 39:21
    70%

    21 And the rings on the bag were fixed to the rings of the ephod by a blue cord, keeping it in place over the band, so that the bag might not get loose, as the Lord gave orders to Moses.

  • Deut 6:17
    70%

    17 Keep with care the orders of the Lord your God, and his rules and his laws which he has given you;

  • Prov 4:2
    69%

    2 For I give you good teaching; do not give up the knowledge you are getting from me.

  • Prov 1:15
    69%

    15 My son, do not go with them; keep your feet from their ways:

  • Num 15:39
    69%

    39 So that, looking on these ornaments, you may keep in mind the orders of the Lord and do them; and not be guided by the desires of your hearts and eyes, through which you have been untrue to me:

  • Exod 28:28
    69%

    28 So that the rings on the bag may be fixed to the rings of the ephod by a blue cord and on to the band of the ephod, so that the bag may not come loose from the ephod.

  • Matt 6:21
    69%

    21 For where your wealth is, there will your heart be.