Proverbs 6:21

KJV1611 – Modern English

Bind them continually upon your heart, and tie them around your neck.

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  • Prov 3:3 : 3 Let not mercy and truth forsake you: bind them around your neck; write them on the tablet of your heart:
  • Prov 4:6 : 6 Do not forsake her, and she will preserve you: love her, and she will keep you.
  • Prov 4:21 : 21 Do not let them depart from your eyes; keep them in the midst of your heart.
  • Prov 7:3-4 : 3 Bind them on your fingers, write them on the tablet of your heart. 4 Say to wisdom, You are my sister, and call understanding your kinswoman.
  • 2 Cor 3:3 : 3 Forasmuch as you are clearly shown to be the letter of Christ ministered by us, written not with ink, but with the Spirit of the living God; not on tablets of stone, but on tablets of the heart.
  • Exod 13:16 : 16 And it shall be for a token upon your hand, and for frontlets between your eyes: for by strength of hand the LORD brought us forth out of Egypt.
  • Deut 6:8 : 8 And you shall bind them as a sign on your hand, and they shall be as frontlets between your eyes.

Similar Verses (AI)

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  • Prov 6:20
    84%

    20My son, keep your father's commandment, and do not forsake the law of your mother:

  • Prov 7:1-3
    3 verses
    82%

    1My son, keep my words and store up my commandments with you.

    2Keep my commandments and live, and my law as the apple of your eye.

    3Bind them on your fingers, write them on the tablet of your heart.

  • Prov 6:22-25
    4 verses
    81%

    22When you go, it shall lead you; when you sleep, it shall keep you; and when you awake, it shall talk with you.

    23For the commandment is a lamp; and the law is light; and reproofs of instruction are the way of life:

    24To keep you from the evil woman, from the flattery of the tongue of a strange woman.

    25Do not lust after her beauty in your heart; neither let her take you with her eyelids.

  • Prov 3:1-3
    3 verses
    81%

    1My son, do not forget my law; but let your heart keep my commandments:

    2For they will add to you length of days, long life, and peace.

    3Let not mercy and truth forsake you: bind them around your neck; write them on the tablet of your heart:

  • Prov 4:20-23
    4 verses
    81%

    20My son, pay attention to my words; incline your ear to my sayings.

    21Do not let them depart from your eyes; keep them in the midst of your heart.

    22For they are life to those who find them, and health to all their flesh.

    23Keep your heart with all diligence; for out of it are the issues of life.

  • Prov 1:8-9
    2 verses
    81%

    8My son, hear the instruction of your father, and do not forsake the law of your mother;

    9For they shall be a graceful ornament on your head and chains about your neck.

  • Deut 6:6-9
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    6And these words, which I command you this day, shall be in your heart:

    7And you shall teach them diligently to your children, and shall talk of them when you sit in your house, and when you walk by the way, and when you lie down, and when you rise up.

    8And you shall bind them as a sign on your hand, and they shall be as frontlets between your eyes.

    9And you shall write them on the doorposts of your house and on your gates.

  • Deut 11:18-20
    3 verses
    79%

    18Therefore, you shall lay up these my words in your heart and in your soul, and bind them as a sign on your hand, so they may be as frontlets between your eyes.

    19And you shall teach them to your children, speaking of them when you sit in your house, and when you walk by the way, when you lie down, and when you rise up.

    20And you shall write them upon the doorposts of your house, and upon your gates:

  • Prov 3:21-22
    2 verses
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    21My son, let them not depart from your eyes: keep sound wisdom and discretion:

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

  • Prov 4:4-6
    3 verses
    75%

    4He also taught me, and said to me, Let your heart retain my words: keep my commandments, and live.

    5Get wisdom, get understanding: do not forget it; neither turn away from the words of my mouth.

    6Do not forsake her, and she will preserve you: love her, and she will keep you.

  • Prov 22:18
    74%

    18For it is a pleasant thing if you keep them within you; they shall all be ready on your lips.

  • Prov 23:26
    74%

    26My son, give me your heart, and let your eyes observe my ways.

  • Prov 2:1-2
    2 verses
    73%

    1My son, if you will receive my words and hide my commandments with you;

    2So that you incline your ear to wisdom, and apply your heart to understanding;

  • Prov 22:6
    73%

    6Train up a child in the way he should go, and when he is old, he will not depart from it.

  • Prov 4:13
    73%

    13Take firm hold of instruction; do not let her go: keep her; for she is your life.

  • Prov 5:19-20
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    19Let her be as the loving deer and graceful doe; let her breasts satisfy you at all times; and be ravished always with her love.

    20And why will you, my son, be ravished with a strange woman, and embrace the bosom of a stranger?

  • Prov 23:19
    71%

    19Hear, my son, and be wise, and guide your heart in the way.

  • Prov 23:22
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    22Listen to your father who begot you, and do not despise your mother when she is old.

  • Deut 32:46
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    46And he said to them, Set your hearts unto all the words which I testify among you today, which you shall command your children to observe to do, all the words of this law.

  • Eph 6:3
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    3That it may be well with you, and you may live long on the earth.

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    12Apply your heart to instruction, and your ears to the words of knowledge.

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    1My son, attend to my wisdom, and incline your ear to my understanding:

  • Exod 39:21
    70%

    21And they bound the breastplate by its rings to the rings of the ephod with a blue cord, so that it might be above the woven band of the ephod, and that the breastplate might not come loose from the ephod, as the LORD commanded Moses.

  • Deut 6:17
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    17You shall diligently keep the commandments of the LORD your God, his testimonies, and his statutes, which he has commanded you.

  • Prov 4:2
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    2For I give you good teaching, do not forsake my law.

  • Prov 1:15
    69%

    15My son, do not walk in the way with them, hold back your foot from their path;

  • Num 15:39
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    39And it shall be for you a fringe, that you may look upon it and remember all the commandments of the LORD, and do them; and that you do not follow after your own heart and your own eyes, in which you used to go astray:

  • Exod 28:28
    69%

    28They shall bind the breastplate by its rings to the rings of the ephod using a blue cord, so that it is above the intricately woven band of the ephod, and so that the breastplate does not come loose from the ephod.

  • Matt 6:21
    69%

    21For where your treasure is, there will your heart be also.