Proverbs 3:3 {4}
Good News Translation
Never let go of loyalty and faithfulness. Tie them around your neck; write them on your heart.

New Revised Standard Version
Do not let loyalty and faithfulness forsake you; bind them around your neck, write them on the tablet of your heart.

Contemporary English Version
Let love and loyalty always show like a necklace, and write them in your mind.

New American Bible
Do not let love and fidelity forsake you; bind them around your neck; write them on the tablet of your heart.

Douay-Rheims Bible
And thou shalt find grace, and good understanding before God and men.

Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

And thou shalt find grace, and good understanding before God and men.

mercy

Proverbs 16:6 By mercy and truth iniquity is redeemed; and by the fear of the Lord men depart from evil.

Proverbs 20:28 Mercy and truth preserve the king, and his throne is strengthened by clemency.

2 Samuel 15:20 Yesterday thou camest, and to day shalt thou be forced to go forth with us? but I shall go whither I am going: return thou, and take back thy brethren with thee, and the Lord will shew thee mercy, and truth, because thou hast shewn grace and fidelity.

Psalm 25:10 All the ways of the Lord are mercy and truth, to them that seek after his covenant and his testimonies.

Hosea 4:1 Hear the word of the Lord, ye children of Israel, for the Lord shall enter into judgment with the inhabitants of the land: for there is no truth, and there is no mercy, and there is no knowledge of God in the land.

Micah 7:18-20 Who is a God like to thee, who takest away iniquity, and passest by the sin of the remnant of thy inheritance? he will send his fury in no more, because he delighteth in mercy. . . .

Malachi 2:6 The law of truth was in his mouth, and iniquity was not found in his lips: he walked with me in peace, and in equity, and turned many away from iniquity.

Matthew 23:23 Woe to you, scribes and Pharisees, hypocrites; because you tithe mint and anise and cummin and have left the weightier things of the law: judgment and mercy and faith. These things you ought to have done and not to leave those undone.

Ephesians 5:1,2,9 Be ye therefore followers of God, as most dear children: . . .

bind

Proverbs 6:21 When thou walkest, let them go with thee: when thou sleepest, let them keep thee, and when thou awakest, talk with them.

Proverbs 7:3 Say to wisdom: Thou art my sister: and call prudence thy friend,

Exodus 13:9 And it shall be as a sign in thy hand, and as a memorial before thy eyes; and that the law of the Lord be always in thy mouth, for with a strong hand the Lord hath brought thee out of the land of Egypt.

Deuteronomy 6:8 And thou shalt bind them as a sign on thy hand, and they shall be and shall move between thy eyes.

Deuteronomy 11:18-21 Lay up these words in your hearts and minds, and hang them for a sign on your hands, and place them between your eyes. . . .

Psalm 119:11 Thy words have I hidden in my heart, that I may not sin against thee.

write

Jeremiah 17:1 The sin of Juda is written with a pen of iron, with the point of a diamond, it is graven upon the table of their heart, upon the horns of their altars.

2 Corinthians 3:3 Being manifested, that you are the epistle of Christ, ministered by us, and written: not with ink but with the Spirit of the living God: not in tables of stone but in the fleshly tables of the heart.

Hebrews 10:16 And this is the testament which I will make unto them after those days, saith the Lord. I will give my laws in their hearts and on their minds will I write them:

Context
Trust in the LORD
2Let not mercy aud truth leave thee, put them about thy neck, and write them in the tables of thy heart. 3And thou shalt find grace, and good understanding before God and men.4Have confidence in the Lord with all thy heart, and lean not upon thy own prudence.…
Cross References
2 Corinthians 3:3
Being manifested, that you are the epistle of Christ, ministered by us, and written: not with ink but with the Spirit of the living God: not in tables of stone but in the fleshly tables of the heart.

Deuteronomy 6:8
And thou shalt bind them as a sign on thy hand, and they shall be and shall move between thy eyes.

Deuteronomy 11:18
Lay up these words in your hearts and minds, and hang them for a sign on your hands, and place them between your eyes.

2 Samuel 15:20
Yesterday thou camest, and to day shalt thou be forced to go forth with us? but I shall go whither I am going: return thou, and take back thy brethren with thee, and the Lord will shew thee mercy, and truth, because thou hast shewn grace and fidelity.

Psalm 85:10
Mercy and truth have met each other: justice and peace have kissed.

Proverbs 1:9
My son, if sinners shall entice thee, consent not to them.

Proverbs 6:21
When thou walkest, let them go with thee: when thou sleepest, let them keep thee, and when thou awakest, talk with them.

Proverbs 7:3
Say to wisdom: Thou art my sister: and call prudence thy friend,

Proverbs 14:22
They err that work evil: but mercy and truth prepare good things.

Jeremiah 17:1
The sin of Juda is written with a pen of iron, with the point of a diamond, it is graven upon the table of their heart, upon the horns of their altars.

Proverbs 3:2
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