Proverbs 3:3

In 11 translations

BSB

Never let loving devotion or faithfulness leave you; bind them around your neck, write them on the tablet of your heart.Forms of the Hebrew chesed are translated here and in most cases throughout the Scriptures as loving devotion; the range of meaning includes love, goodness, kindness, faithfulness, and mercy, as well as loyalty to a covenant.

KJV

Let not mercy and truth forsake thee: bind them about thy neck; write them upon the table of thine heart:

WEB

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

ASV

Let not kindness and truth forsake thee: Bind them about thy neck; Write them upon the tablet of thy heart:

LSV

Do not let kindness and truth forsake you, || Bind them on your neck, || Write them on the tablet of your heart,

YLT

Let not kindness and truth forsake thee, Bind them on thy neck, Write them on the tablet of thy heart,

DBY

Let not loving-kindness and truth forsake thee; bind them about thy neck, write them upon the tablet of thy heart:

DRC

Let not mercy and truth leave thee, put them about thy neck, and write them in the tables of thy heart:

GNV

Let not mercie and trueth forsake thee: binde them on thy necke, and write them vpon the table of thine heart.

JPS

Let not kindness and truth forsake thee; bind them about thy neck, write them upon the table of thy heart;

LXXE

Let not mercy and truth forsake thee; but bind them about thy neck:

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Words in brackets are English the glossers added; the Hebrew has no word for them, and they can carry a choice of tense or meaning.

Original-language editions

WLC

חֶ֥סֶד וֶאֱמֶ֗ת אַֽל־יַעַ֫זְבֻ֥ךָ קָשְׁרֵ֥ם עַל־גַּרְגְּרוֹתֶ֑יךָ כָּ֝תְבֵ֗ם עַל־ל֥וּחַ לִבֶּֽךָ׃

LXX-Br

Ἐλεημοσύναι καὶ πίστεις μὴ ἐκλειπέτωσάν σε· ἄφαψαι δὲ αὐτὰς ἐπὶ σῷ τραχήλῳ, καὶ εὑρήσεις χάριν·

In the reference works topics that cite this verse

From public-domain Bible dictionaries and topical indexes (1884–1915).

Cross-references most cited first

• Proverbs 7:3Tie them to your fingers; write them on the tablet of your heart.
• 2 Corinthians 3:3It is clear that you are a letter from Christ, the result of our ministry, written not with ink but with the Spirit of the living God, not on tablets of stone but on tablets of human hearts.
• Hebrews 10:16“This is the covenant I will make with them after those days, declares the Lord. I will put My laws in their hearts and inscribe them on their minds.”
• Deuteronomy 11:18–21Fix these words of mine in your hearts and minds; tie them as reminders on your hands and bind them on your foreheads. Teach them to your children, speaking about them when you sit at home and when you walk along the…
• Malachi 2:6True instruction was in his mouth, and nothing false was found on his lips. He walked with Me in peace and uprightness, and he turned many from iniquity.
• Proverbs 6:21Bind them always upon your heart; tie them around your neck.
• Ephesians 5:1–2Be imitators of God, therefore, as beloved children, and walk in love, just as Christ loved us and gave Himself up for us as a fragrant sacrificial offering to God.
• Proverbs 16:6By loving devotion and faithfulness iniquity is atoned for, and by the fear of the LORD one turns aside from evil.
• Proverbs 1:9For they are a garland of grace on your head and a pendant around your neck.
• Ephesians 5:9for the fruit of the light consists in all goodness, righteousness, and truth.
• Exodus 13:9It shall be a sign for you on your hand and a reminder on your forehead that the Law of the LORD is to be on your lips. For with a mighty hand the LORD brought you out of Egypt.
• Psalms 119:11I have hidden Your word in my heart that I might not sin against You.
• Psalms 25:10All the LORD’s ways are loving and faithful to those who keep His covenant and His decrees.
• Proverbs 20:28Loving devotion and faithfulness preserve a king; by these he maintains his throne.
• Deuteronomy 6:8Tie them as reminders on your hands and bind them on your foreheads.
• Jeremiah 17:1“The sin of Judah is written with an iron stylus, engraved with a diamond point on the tablets of their hearts and on the horns of their altars.

From the OpenBible.info cross-reference set (votes from readers; not every link is a quotation or allusion).