Parallel Verses
King James 2000
For they shall be an ornament of grace unto your head, and chains about your neck.
New American Standard Bible
And
King James Version
For they shall be an ornament of grace unto thy head, and chains about thy neck.
Holman Bible
and a gold chain around your neck.
International Standard Version
They will be a graceful wreath for your head and a chain for your neck.
A Conservative Version
For they shall be a garland of grace to thy head, and chains about thy neck.
American Standard Version
For they shall be a chaplet of grace unto thy head, And chains about thy neck.
Amplified
For they are a garland of grace on your head,
And chains and ornaments [of gold] around your neck.
Bible in Basic English
For they will be a crown of grace for your head, and chain-ornaments about your neck.
Darby Translation
for they shall be a garland of grace unto thy head, and chains about thy neck.
Julia Smith Translation
For they a garland of grace to thy head, and necklaces for thy throat
Lexham Expanded Bible
for they [are] a garland of favor for your head, and pendants for your neck.
Modern King James verseion
for they shall be an ornament of grace to your head and chains around your neck.
Modern Spelling Tyndale-Coverdale
for that shall bring grace unto thy head, and shall be a chain about thy neck.
NET Bible
For they will be like an elegant garland on your head, and like pendants around your neck.
New Heart English Bible
for they will be a garland to grace your head, and a necklace around your neck.
The Emphasized Bible
For, a wreath of beauty, shall they be to thy head, and chains of ornament, to thy neck.
Webster
For they shalt be an ornament of grace to thy head, and chains about thy neck.
World English Bible
for they will be a garland to grace your head, and chains around your neck.
Youngs Literal Translation
For a graceful wreath are they to thy head, And chains to thy neck.
Themes
Adorning » Spiritual » General references
Adorning » Rich apparel » Chains used as ornaments
Children » Should » Attend to parental teaching
Interlinear
Ro'sh
References
Word Count of 20 Translations in Proverbs 1:9
Verse Info
Context Readings
Advice To The Young
8 My son, hear the instruction of your father, and forsake not the law of your mother: 9 For they shall be an ornament of grace unto your head, and chains about your neck. 10 My son, if sinners entice you, consent not.
Cross References
Proverbs 4:9
She shall give to your head an ornament of grace: a crown of glory shall she deliver to you.
Genesis 41:42
And Pharaoh took off his ring from his hand, and put it upon Joseph's hand, and arrayed him in clothing of fine linen, and put a gold chain about his neck;
Daniel 5:29
Then commanded Belshazzar, and they clothed Daniel with scarlet, and put a chain of gold about his neck, and made a proclamation concerning him, that he should be the third ruler in the kingdom.
Proverbs 3:22
So shall they be life unto your soul, and grace to your neck.
Proverbs 6:20-21
My son, keep your father's commandment, and forsake not the law of your mother:
Song of Songs 1:10
Your cheeks are lovely with rows of jewels, your neck with chains of gold.
Song of Songs 4:9
You have ravished my heart, my sister, my spouse; you have ravished my heart with one look of your eyes, with one jewel of your necklace.
Isaiah 3:19
The pendants, and the bracelets, and the veils,
Ezekiel 16:11
I adorned you also with ornaments, and I put bracelets upon your hands, and a chain on your neck.
Daniel 5:7
The king cried aloud to bring in the astrologers, the Chaldeans, and the soothsayers. And the king spoke, and said to the wise men of Babylon, Whosoever shall read this writing, and show me its interpretation, shall be clothed with scarlet, and have a chain of gold about his neck, and shall be the third ruler in the kingdom.
Daniel 5:16
And I have heard of you, that you can make interpretations, and explain doubts: now if you can read the writing, and make known to me its interpretation, you shall be clothed with scarlet, and have a chain of gold about your neck, and shall be the third ruler in the kingdom.
1 Timothy 2:9-10
In like manner also, that women adorn themselves in modest apparel, with decency and propriety; not with braided hair, or gold, or pearls, or costly array;
1 Peter 3:3-4
Whose adorning let it not be that outward adorning of braiding the hair, and of wearing of gold, or of putting on of apparel;