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


In Context

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.

5 Trust in Yahweh with all your heart, and don't lean on your own understanding.

Proverbs 3:3 in Other Translations

The King James Version of the Holy Bible

3:3Let not mercy and truth forsake thee: bind them about thy neck; write them upon the table of thine heart:

The New International Version of the Holy Bible

3:3Let love and faithfulness never leave you; bind them around your neck, write them on the tablet of your heart.

The Douay-Rheims Version of the Holy Bible

3:3Let not mercy and truth leave thee, put them about thy neck, and write them in the tables of thy heart:

The American Standard Version of the Holy Bible

3:3Let not kindness and truth forsake thee: Bind them about thy neck; Write them upon the tablet of thy heart:

The Darby Bible Translation of the Holy Bible

3:3Let not loving-kindness and truth forsake thee; bind them about thy neck, write them upon the tablet of thy heart:

The English Revised Version of the Holy Bible

3:3Let not mercy and truth forsake thee: bind them about thy neck; write them upon the table of thine heart:

The Webster Bible Translation of the Holy Bible

3:3Let not mercy and truth forsake thee: bind them about thy neck; write them upon the table of thy heart:

The Young's Literal Translation of the Holy Bible

3:3Let not kindness and truth forsake thee, Bind them on thy neck, Write them on the tablet of thy heart,

The American King James Version of the Holy Bible

3:3Let not mercy and truth forsake you: bind them about your neck; write them on the table of your heart: