Numbers 15:39

Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

Summary

And it shall be unto you for a fringe, that ye may look upon it, and remember all the commandments of the LORD, and do them; and that ye seek not after your own heart and your own eyes, after which ye use to go a whoring:

Remember

Ye seek not

Go a whoring

James 4:4

General references

Deuteronomy 6:8

Bible References

Remember

It will be a sign for you on your hand and a memorial on your forehead, so that the law of the Lord may be in your mouth, for with a mighty hand the Lord brought you out of Egypt.

These words I am commanding you today must be kept in mind,

Fix these words of mine into your mind and being, and tie them as a reminder on your hands and let them be symbols on your forehead.

My child, do not forget my teaching, but let your heart keep my commandments,

Ye seek not

When such a person hears the words of this oath he secretly blesses himself and says, "I will have peace though I continue to walk with a stubborn spirit." This will destroy the watered ground with the parched.

If my footsteps have strayed from the way, if my heart has gone after my eyes, or if anything has defiled my hands,

The one who trusts in his own heart is a fool, but the one who walks in wisdom will escape.

Rejoice, young man, while you are young, and let your heart cheer you in the days of your youth. Follow the impulses of your heart and the desires of your eyes, but know that God will judge your motives and actions.

Instead they have followed the stubborn inclinations of their own hearts. They have paid allegiance to the gods called Baal, as their fathers taught them to do.

Then your survivors will remember me among the nations where they are exiled. They will realize how I was crushed by their unfaithful heart which turned from me and by their eyes which lusted after their idols. They will loathe themselves because of the evil they have done and because of all their abominable practices.

Go a whoring

Be careful not to make a covenant with the inhabitants of the land, for when they prostitute themselves to their gods and sacrifice to their gods, and someone invites you, you will eat from his sacrifice;

Yes, look! Those far from you die; you destroy everyone who is unfaithful to you.

They were defiled by their deeds, and unfaithful in their actions.

Plead earnestly with your mother (for she is not my wife, and I am not her husband), so that she might put an end to her adulterous lifestyle, and turn away from her sexually immoral behavior.

Adulterers, do you not know that friendship with the world means hostility toward God? So whoever decides to be the world's friend makes himself God's enemy.

General references

You should tie them as a reminder on your forearm and fasten them as symbols on your forehead.