Parallel Verses
Amplified
Bind them continually upon your heart (in your thoughts),
And tie them around your neck.
New American Standard Bible
Tie them around your neck.
King James Version
Bind them continually upon thine heart, and tie them about thy neck.
Holman Bible
tie them around your neck.
International Standard Version
by binding them to your heart continuously, fastening them around your neck.
A Conservative Version
Bind them continually upon thy heart. Tie them about thy neck.
American Standard Version
Bind them continually upon thy heart; Tie them about thy neck.
Bible in Basic English
Keep them ever folded in your heart, and have them hanging round your neck.
Darby Translation
bind them continually upon thy heart, tie them about thy neck:
Julia Smith Translation
Tie them always upon thy heart; bind them upon thy throat
King James 2000
Bind them continually upon your heart, and tie them about your neck.
Lexham Expanded Bible
Bind them on your heart continually; tie them upon your neck.
Modern King James verseion
bind them upon your heart forever, tie them around your neck.
Modern Spelling Tyndale-Coverdale
Put them up together in thine heart, and bind them about thy neck.
NET Bible
Bind them on your heart continually; fasten them around your neck.
New Heart English Bible
Bind them continually on your heart. Tie them around your neck.
The Emphasized Bible
Bind them upon thy heart continually, fasten them upon thy neck;
Webster
Bind them continually upon thy heart, and tie them about thy neck.
World English Bible
Bind them continually on your heart. Tie them around your neck.
Youngs Literal Translation
Bind them on thy heart continually, Tie them on thy neck.
Interlinear
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References
Watsons
Word Count of 20 Translations in Proverbs 6:21
Verse Info
Context Readings
Commandment And Instruction As Guardians
20
My son, be guided by your father’s [God-given] commandment (instruction)
And do not
Bind them continually upon your heart (in your thoughts),
And tie them around your neck.
When you walk about, they (the godly teachings of your parents) will guide you;
When you sleep, they will keep watch over you;
And when you awake, they will talk to you.
Cross References
Proverbs 3:3
Do not let mercy and kindness and truth leave you [instead let these qualities define you];
Bind them [securely] around your neck,
Write them on the tablet of your heart.
Exodus 13:16
So it shall serve as a sign and a reminder on your [left] hand (arm) and as
Deuteronomy 6:8
And you shall bind them as a sign on your hand (forearm), and they shall be used as
Proverbs 4:6
“Do not
Love her, and she will watch over you.
Proverbs 4:21
Do not let them escape from your sight;
Keep them in the center of your heart.
Proverbs 7:3-4
Bind them [securely] on your fingers;
Write them on the tablet of your heart.
2 Corinthians 3:3
You show that you are a letter from Christ, delivered by us, written not with ink but with the Spirit of the living God, not on tablets of stone but on tablets of human hearts.