Parallel Verses
Bible in Basic English
Keep them ever folded in your heart, and have them hanging round 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.
Amplified
Bind them continually upon your heart (in your thoughts),
And tie them around 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, keep the rule of your father, and have in memory the teaching of your mother: 21 Keep them ever folded in your heart, and have them hanging round your neck. 22 In your walking, it will be your guide; when you are sleeping, it will keep watch over you; when you are awake, it will have talk with you.
Cross References
Proverbs 3:3
Let not mercy and good faith go from you; let them be hanging round your neck, recorded on your heart;
Exodus 13:16
And this will be for a sign on your hand and for a mark on your brow: for by the strength of his hand the Lord took us out of Egypt.
Deuteronomy 6:8
Let them be fixed as a sign on your hand, and marked on your brow;
Proverbs 4:6
Do not give her up, and she will keep you; give her your love, and she will make you safe.
Proverbs 4:21
Let them not go from your eyes; keep them deep in your heart.
Proverbs 7:3-4
Let them be fixed to your fingers, and recorded in your heart.
2 Corinthians 3:3
For you are clearly a letter of Christ, the fruit of our work, recorded not with ink, but with the Spirit of the living God; not in stone, but in hearts of flesh.