Proverbs 6:21

NET Bible® (New English Translation)

Bind them on your heart continually; fasten them around your neck.

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Referenced Verses

  • Prov 3:3 : 3 Do not let mercy and truth leave you; bind them around your neck, write them on the tablet of your heart.
  • Prov 4:6 : 6 Do not forsake wisdom, and she will protect you; love her, and she will guard you.
  • Prov 4:21 : 21 Do not let them depart from your sight, guard them within your heart;
  • Prov 7:3-4 : 3 Bind them on your forearm; write them on the tablet of your heart. 4 Say to wisdom,“You are my sister,” and call understanding a close relative,
  • 2 Cor 3:3 : 3 revealing that you are a letter of Christ, delivered by us, written not with ink but by the Spirit of the living God, not on stone tablets but on tablets of human hearts.
  • Exod 13:16 : 16 It will be for a sign on your hand and for frontlets on your forehead, for with a mighty hand the LORD brought us out of Egypt.”
  • Deut 6:8 : 8 You should tie them as a reminder on your forearm and fasten them as symbols on your forehead.

Similar Verses (AI)

These verses are found using AI-powered semantic similarity based on meaning and context. Results may occasionally include unexpected connections.

  • Prov 6:20
    84%

    20My child, guard the commands of your father and do not forsake the instruction of your mother.

  • Prov 7:1-3
    3 verses
    82%

    1Admonition to Avoid the Wiles of the Adulteress My child, devote yourself to my words and store up my commands inside yourself.

    2Keep my commands so that you may live, and obey my instruction as your most prized possession.

    3Bind them on your forearm; write them on the tablet of your heart.

  • Prov 6:22-25
    4 verses
    81%

    22When you walk about, they will guide you; when you lie down, they will watch over you; when you wake up, they will talk to you.

    23For the commandments are like a lamp, instruction is like a light, and rebukes of discipline are like the road leading to life,

    24by keeping you from the evil woman, from the smooth tongue of the loose woman.

    25Do not lust in your heart for her beauty, and do not let her captivate you with her alluring eyes;

  • Prov 3:1-3
    3 verses
    81%

    1Exhortations to Seek Wisdom and Walk with the Lord My child, do not forget my teaching, but let your heart keep my commandments,

    2for they will provide a long and full life, and well-being for you.

    3Do not let mercy and truth leave you; bind them around your neck, write them on the tablet of your heart.

  • Prov 4:20-23
    4 verses
    81%

    20My child, pay attention to my words; listen attentively to my sayings.

    21Do not let them depart from your sight, guard them within your heart;

    22for they are life to those who find them and healing to one’s entire body.

    23Guard your heart with all vigilance, for from it are the sources of life.

  • Prov 1:8-9
    2 verses
    81%

    8Listen, my child, to the instruction from your father, and do not forsake the teaching from your mother.

    9For they will be like an elegant garland on your head, and like pendants around your neck.

  • Deut 6:6-9
    4 verses
    80%

    6Exhortation to Teach the Covenant Principles These words I am commanding you today must be kept in mind,

    7and you must teach them to your children and speak of them as you sit in your house, as you walk along the road, as you lie down, and as you get up.

    8You should tie them as a reminder on your forearm and fasten them as symbols on your forehead.

    9Inscribe them on the doorframes of your houses and gates.

  • Deut 11:18-20
    3 verses
    79%

    18Fix these words of mine into your mind and being, and tie them as a reminder on your hands and let them be symbols on your forehead.

    19Teach them to your children and speak of them as you sit in your house, as you walk along the road, as you lie down, and as you get up.

    20Inscribe them on the doorframes of your houses and on your gates

  • Prov 3:21-22
    2 verses
    77%

    21My child, do not let them escape from your sight; safeguard sound wisdom and discretion.

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

  • Prov 4:4-6
    3 verses
    75%

    4he taught me, and he said to me:“Let your heart lay hold of my words; keep my commands so that you will live.

    5Acquire wisdom, acquire understanding; do not forget and do not turn aside from the words I speak.

    6Do not forsake wisdom, and she will protect you; love her, and she will guard you.

  • Prov 22:18
    74%

    18For it is pleasing if you keep these sayings within you, and they are ready on your lips.

  • Prov 23:26
    74%

    26Give me your heart, my son, and let your eyes observe my ways;

  • Prov 2:1-2
    2 verses
    73%

    1Benefits of Seeking Wisdom My child, if you receive my words, and store up my commands inside yourself,

    2by making your ear attentive to wisdom, and by turning your heart to understanding,

  • Prov 22:6
    73%

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

  • Prov 4:13
    73%

    13Hold on to instruction, do not let it go; protect it, because it is your life.

  • Prov 5:19-20
    2 verses
    72%

    19a loving doe, a graceful deer; may her breasts satisfy you at all times, may you be captivated by her love always.

    20But why should you be captivated, my son, by an adulteress, and embrace the bosom of a different woman?

  • Prov 23:19
    71%

    19Listen, my child, and be wise, and guide your heart on the right way.

  • Prov 23:22
    70%

    22Listen to your father who gave you life, and do not despise your mother when she is old.

  • Deut 32:46
    70%

    46he said to them,“Keep in mind all the words I am solemnly proclaiming to you today; you must command your children to observe carefully all the words of this law.

  • Eph 6:3
    70%

    3“that it will go well with you and that you will live a long time on the earth.”

  • Prov 23:12
    70%

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

  • Prov 5:1
    70%

    1Admonition to Avoid Seduction to Evil My child, be attentive to my wisdom, pay close attention to my understanding,

  • Exod 39:21
    70%

    21They tied the breastpiece by its rings to the rings of the ephod by blue cord, so that it was above the waistband of the ephod, so that the breastpiece would not be loose from the ephod, just as the LORD had commanded Moses.

  • Deut 6:17
    70%

    17Keep his commandments very carefully, as well as the stipulations and statutes he commanded you to observe.

  • Prov 4:2
    69%

    2Because I hereby give you good instruction, do not forsake my teaching.

  • Prov 1:15
    69%

    15My child, do not go down their way, withhold yourself from their path;

  • Num 15:39
    69%

    39You must have this tassel so that you may look at it and remember all the commandments of the LORD and obey them and so that you do not follow after your own heart and your own eyes that lead you to unfaithfulness.

  • Exod 28:28
    69%

    28They are to tie the breastpiece by its rings to the rings of the ephod by blue cord, so that it may be above the waistband of the ephod, and so that the breastpiece will not be loose from the ephod.

  • Matt 6:21
    69%

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