Proverbs 1:9

World English Bible (2000)

for they will be a garland to grace your head, and chains around your neck.

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Referenced Verses

  • Prov 4:9 : 9 She will give to your head a garland of grace. She will deliver a crown of splendor to you."
  • Gen 41:42 : 42 Pharaoh took off his signet ring from his hand, and put it on Joseph's hand, and arrayed him in robes of fine linen, and put a gold chain about his neck,
  • Dan 5:29 : 29 Then commanded Belshazzar, and they clothed Daniel with purple, and put a chain of gold about his neck, and made proclamation concerning him, that he should be the third ruler in the kingdom.
  • Prov 3:22 : 22 so they will be life to your soul, and grace for your neck.
  • 1 Tim 2:9-9 : 9 In the same way, that women also adorn themselves in decent clothing, with modesty and propriety; not just with braided hair, gold, pearls, or expensive clothing; 10 but (which becomes women professing godliness) with good works.
  • 1 Pet 3:3-4 : 3 Let your beauty be not just the outward adorning of braiding the hair, and of wearing jewels of gold, or of putting on fine clothing; 4 but in the hidden person of the heart, in the incorruptible adornment of a gentle and quiet spirit, which is in the sight of God very precious.
  • Prov 6:20-21 : 20 My son, keep your father's commandment, and don't forsake your mother's teaching. 21 Bind them continually on your heart. Tie them around your neck.
  • Song 1:10 : 10 Your cheeks are beautiful with earrings, your neck with strings of jewels.
  • Song 4:9 : 9 You have ravished my heart, my sister, my bride. You have ravished my heart with one of your eyes, with one chain of your neck.
  • Isa 3:19 : 19 the earrings, the bracelets, the veils,
  • Ezek 16:11 : 11 I decked you with ornaments, and I put bracelets on your hands, and a chain on your neck.
  • Dan 5:7 : 7 The king cried aloud to bring in the enchanters, the Chaldeans, and the soothsayers. The king spoke and said to the wise men of Babylon, Whoever shall read this writing, and show me its interpretation, shall be clothed with purple, and have a chain of gold about his neck, and shall be the third ruler in the kingdom.
  • Dan 5:16 : 16 But I have heard of you, that you can give interpretations, and dissolve doubts; now if you can read the writing, and make known to me its interpretation, you shall be clothed with purple, and have a chain of gold about your neck, and shall be the third ruler in the kingdom.

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    21 My son, let them not depart from your eyes. Keep sound wisdom and discretion:

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

  • Prov 6:20-22
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    20 My son, keep your father's commandment, and don't forsake your mother's teaching.

    21 Bind them continually on your heart. Tie them around your neck.

    22 When you walk, it will lead you. When you sleep, it will watch over you. When you awake, it will talk with you.

  • Prov 4:8-10
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    8 Esteem her, and she will exalt you. She will bring you to honor, when you embrace her.

    9 She will give to your head a garland of grace. She will deliver a crown of splendor to you."

    10 Listen, my son, and receive my sayings. The years of your life will be many.

  • Prov 1:8
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    8 My son, listen to your father's instruction, and don't forsake your mother's teaching:

  • Song 1:10-11
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    10 Your cheeks are beautiful with earrings, your neck with strings of jewels.

    11 We will make you earrings of gold, with studs of silver. Beloved

  • Prov 3:1-4
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    1 My son, don't forget my teaching; but let your heart keep my commandments:

    2 for length of days, and years of life, and peace, will they add to you.

    3 Don't let kindness and truth forsake you. Bind them around your neck. Write them on the tablet of your heart.

    4 So you will find favor, and good understanding in the sight of God and man.

  • Isa 3:19-21
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    19 the earrings, the bracelets, the veils,

    20 the headdresses, the ankle chains, the sashes, the perfume bottles, the charms,

    21 the signet rings, the nose rings,

  • Prov 1:10
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    10 My son, if sinners entice you, don't consent.

  • Prov 22:18
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    18 For it is a pleasant thing if you keep them within you, if all of them are ready on your lips.

  • Ezek 16:11-12
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    11 I decked you with ornaments, and I put bracelets on your hands, and a chain on your neck.

    12 I put a ring on your nose, and earrings in your ears, and a beautiful crown on your head.

  • 1 Pet 3:3
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    3 Let your beauty be not just the outward adorning of braiding the hair, and of wearing jewels of gold, or of putting on fine clothing;

  • Prov 2:1
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    1 My son, if you will receive my words, and store up my commandments within you;

  • Prov 1:15
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    15 My son, don't walk in the way with them. Keep your foot from their path,

  • Prov 7:3-5
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    3 Bind them on your fingers. Write them on the tablet of your heart.

    4 Tell wisdom, "You are my sister." Call understanding your relative,

    5 that they may keep you from the strange woman, from the foreigner who flatters with her words.

  • Exod 28:14
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    14 and two chains of pure gold; you shall make them like cords of braided work: and you shall put the braided chains on the settings.

  • Prov 4:20-22
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    20 My son, attend to my words. Turn your ear to my sayings.

    21 Let them not depart from your eyes. Keep them in the midst of your heart.

    22 For they are life to those who find them, and health to their whole body.

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    6 Therefore pride is like a chain around their neck. Violence covers them like a garment.

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    6 Children's children are the crown of old men; the glory of children are their parents.

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    1 My son, pay attention to my wisdom. Turn your ear to my understanding:

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    6 Don't forsake her, and she will preserve you. Love her, and she will keep you.

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    1 My son, keep my words. Lay up my commandments within you.

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    20 For why should you, my son, be captivated with an adulteress? Why embrace the bosom of another?

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    8 You shall bind them for a sign on your hand, and they shall be for symbols between your eyes.

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    18 She is a tree of life to those who lay hold of her. Happy is everyone who retains her.

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    4 Your neck is like David's tower built for an armory, whereon a thousand shields hang, all the shields of the mighty men.

  • Prov 8:32
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    32 "Now therefore, my sons, listen to me, for blessed are those who keep my ways.

  • Song 3:11
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    11 Go forth, you daughters of Zion, and see king Solomon, with the crown with which his mother has crowned him, in the day of his weddings, in the day of the gladness of his heart. Lover

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    24 to keep you from the immoral woman, from the flattery of the wayward wife's tongue.

  • Prov 4:13
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    13 Take firm hold of instruction. Don't let her go. Keep her, for she is your life.

  • Prov 23:26
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    26 My son, give me your heart; and let your eyes keep in my ways.

  • Ps 19:11
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    11 Moreover by them is your servant warned. In keeping them there is great reward.