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Tie them around your neck as a reminder. Write them deep within your heart.<span class="p"><br /><br /></span><span class="versiontext"><a href="/esv/proverbs/3.htm">English Standard Version</a></span><br />Let not steadfast love and faithfulness forsake you; bind them around your neck; write them on the tablet of your heart.<span class="p"><br /><br /></span><span class="versiontext"><a href="/bsb/proverbs/3.htm">Berean Standard Bible</a></span><br />Never let loving devotion or faithfulness leave you; bind them around your neck, write them on the tablet of your heart.<span class="p"><br /><br /></span><span class="versiontext"><a href="/kjv/proverbs/3.htm">King James Bible</a></span><br />Let not mercy and truth forsake thee: bind them about thy neck; write them upon the table of thine heart:<span class="p"><br /><br /></span><span class="versiontext"><a href="/nkjv/proverbs/3.htm">New King James Version</a></span><br />Let not mercy and truth forsake you; Bind them around your neck, Write them on the tablet of your heart,<span class="p"><br /><br /></span><span class="versiontext"><a href="/nasb_/proverbs/3.htm">New American Standard Bible</a></span><br />Do not let kindness and truth leave you; Bind them around your neck, Write them on the tablet of your heart.<span class="p"><br /><br /></span><span class="versiontext"><a href="/nasb/proverbs/3.htm">NASB 1995</a></span><br />Do not let kindness and truth leave you; Bind them around your neck, Write them on the tablet of your heart.<span class="p"><br /><br /></span><span class="versiontext"><a href="/nasb77/proverbs/3.htm">NASB 1977 </a></span><br />Do not let kindness and truth leave you; Bind them around your neck, Write them on the tablet of your heart.<span class="p"><br /><br /></span><span class="versiontext"><a href="/lsb/proverbs/3.htm">Legacy Standard Bible </a></span><br />Do not let lovingkindness and truth forsake you; Bind them around your neck, Write them on the tablet of your heart.<span class="p"><br /><br /></span><span class="versiontext"><a href="/amp/proverbs/3.htm">Amplified Bible</a></span><br />Do not let mercy <i>and</i> kindness and truth leave you [instead let these qualities define you]; Bind them [securely] around your neck, Write them on the tablet of your heart.<span class="p"><br /><br /></span><span class="versiontext"><a href="/csb/proverbs/3.htm">Christian Standard Bible</a></span><br />Never let loyalty and faithfulness leave you. Tie them around your neck; write them on the tablet of your heart.<span class="p"><br /><br /></span><span class="versiontext"><a href="/hcsb/proverbs/3.htm">Holman Christian Standard Bible</a></span><br />Never let loyalty and faithfulness leave you. Tie them around your neck; write them on the tablet of your heart. <span class="p"><br /><br /></span><span class="versiontext"><a href="/asv/proverbs/3.htm">American Standard Version</a></span><br />Let not kindness and truth forsake thee: Bind them about thy neck; Write them upon the tablet of thy heart:<span class="p"><br /><br /></span><span class="versiontext"><a href="/cev/proverbs/3.htm">Contemporary English Version</a></span><br />Let love and loyalty always show like a necklace, and write them in your mind. <span class="p"><br /><br /></span><span class="versiontext"><a href="/erv/proverbs/3.htm">English Revised Version</a></span><br />Let not mercy and truth forsake thee: bind them about thy neck; write them upon the table of thine heart:<span class="p"><br /><br /></span><span class="versiontext"><a href="/gwt/proverbs/3.htm">GOD'S WORD® Translation</a></span><br />Do not let mercy and truth leave you. Fasten them around your neck. Write them on the tablet of your heart.<span class="p"><br /><br /></span><span class="versiontext"><a href="/gnt/proverbs/3.htm">Good News Translation</a></span><br />Never let go of loyalty and faithfulness. Tie them around your neck; write them on your heart. <span class="p"><br /><br /></span><span class="versiontext"><a href="/isv/proverbs/3.htm">International Standard Version</a></span><br />Do not let gracious love and truth leave you. Bind them around your neck, write them on the tablet of your heart,<span class="p"><br /><br /></span><span class="versiontext"><a href="/msb/proverbs/3.htm">Majority Standard Bible</a></span><br />Never let loving devotion or faithfulness leave you; bind them around your neck, write them on the tablet of your heart.<span class="p"><br /><br /></span><span class="versiontext"><a href="/net/proverbs/3.htm">NET Bible</a></span><br />Do not let truth and mercy leave you; bind them around your neck, write them on the tablet of your heart. <span class="p"><br /><br /></span><span class="versiontext"><a href="/nheb/proverbs/3.htm">New Heart English Bible</a></span><br />Do not let kindness and truth forsake you. Bind them around your neck. Write them on the tablet of your heart.<span class="p"><br /><br /></span><span class="versiontext"><a href="/wbt/proverbs/3.htm">Webster's Bible Translation</a></span><br />Let not mercy and truth forsake thee: bind them about thy neck; write them upon the table of thy heart:<span class="p"><br /><br /></span><span class="versiontext"><a href="/web/proverbs/3.htm">World English Bible</a></span><br />Don’t let kindness and truth forsake you. Bind them around your neck. Write them on the tablet of your heart. <div class="vheading2"><b>Literal Translations</b></div><span class="versiontext"><a href="/lsv/proverbs/3.htm">Literal Standard Version</a></span><br />Do not let kindness and truth forsake you, "" Bind them on your neck, "" Write them on the tablet of your heart,<span class="p"><br /><br /></span><span class="versiontext"><a href="/ylt/proverbs/3.htm">Young's Literal Translation</a></span><br /> Let not kindness and truth forsake thee, Bind them on thy neck, Write them on the tablet of thy heart,<span class="p"><br /><br /></span><span class="versiontext"><a href="/slt/proverbs/3.htm">Smith's Literal Translation</a></span><br />Mercy and truth shall not forsake thee: bind them upon thy throat; write them upon the tablet of thy heart:<div class="vheading2"><b>Catholic Translations</b></div><span class="versiontext"><a href="/drb/proverbs/3.htm">Douay-Rheims Bible</a></span><br />Let not mercy and truth leave thee, put them about thy neck, and write them in the tables of thy heart: <span class="p"><br /><br /></span><span class="versiontext"><a href="/cpdv/proverbs/3.htm">Catholic Public Domain Version</a></span><br />Let not mercy and truth abandon you: encircle them around your throat, and inscribe them on the tablets of your heart.<span class="p"><br /><br /></span><span class="versiontext"><a href="/nabre/proverbs/3.htm">New American Bible</a></span><br />Do not let love and fidelity forsake you; bind them around your neck; write them on the tablet of your heart. <span class="p"><br /><br /></span><span class="versiontext"><a href="/nrsvce/proverbs/3.htm">New Revised Standard Version</a></span><br />Do not let loyalty and faithfulness forsake you; bind them around your neck, write them on the tablet of your heart.<div class="vheading2"><b>Translations from Aramaic</b></div><span class="versiontext"><a href="/lamsa/proverbs/3.htm">Lamsa Bible</a></span><br />And peace, mercy, and truth will not forsake you; bind them about your neck; write them upon the tablets of your heart:<span class="p"><br /><br /></span><span class="versiontext"><a href="/hpbt/proverbs/3.htm">Peshitta Holy Bible Translated</a></span><br />And let not peace, favor and truth forsake you; bind them on your neck and write them upon the tablet of your heart<div class="vheading2"><b>OT Translations</b></div><span class="versiontext"><a href="/jps/proverbs/3.htm">JPS Tanakh 1917</a></span><br />Let not kindness and truth forsake thee; Bind them about thy neck, write them upon the table of thy heart;<span class="p"><br /><br /></span><span class="versiontext"><a href="/sep/proverbs/3.htm">Brenton Septuagint Translation</a></span><br />Let not mercy and truth forsake thee; but bind them about thy neck:<span class="p"><br /><br /></span><span class="versiontext"><a href="/parallel/proverbs/3-3.htm">Additional Translations ...</a></span></div></div></div><div id="centbox"><div class="padcent"><a name="audio" id="audio"></a><div class="vheadingv"><b>Audio Bible</b></div><iframe width="100%" src="https://www.youtube.com/embed/kpUA5ZltBeQ?start=362" title="YouTube video player" frameborder="0" allow="accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share" allowfullscreen></iframe><span class="p"><br /><br /><br /></span><div class="vheadingv"><b>Context</b></div><span class="hdg"><a href="/bsb/proverbs/3.htm">Trust in the LORD</a></span><br>…<span class="reftext">2</span>for they will add length to your days, years and peace to your life. <span class="reftext">3</span><span class="highl"><a href="/hebrew/408.htm" title="408: ’al- (Adv) -- Not (a subjective neg.). A negative particle; not; once as a noun, nothing.">Never</a> <a href="/hebrew/2617.htm" title="2617: ḥe·seḏ (N-ms) -- Kindness, piety, reproof, beauty. From chacad; kindness; by implication piety: rarely reproof, or Beauty.">let loving devotion</a> <a href="/hebrew/571.htm" title="571: we·’ĕ·meṯ (Conj-w:: N-fs) -- Firmness, faithfulness, truth. Contracted from 'aman; stability; certainty, truth, trustworthiness.">or faithfulness</a> <a href="/hebrew/5800.htm" title="5800: ya·‘az·ḇu·ḵā (V-Qal-Imperf-3mp:: 2ms) -- To loosen, relinquish, permit. A primitive root; to loosen, i.e. Relinquish, permit, etc.">leave you;</a> <a href="/hebrew/7194.htm" title="7194: qā·šə·rêm (V-Qal-Imp-ms:: 3mp) -- To bind, league together, conspire. A primitive root: to tie, physically or mentally.">bind</a> <a href="/hebrew/5921.htm" title="5921: ‘al- (Prep) -- Properly, the same as al used as a preposition; above, over, upon, or against in a great variety of applications.">them</a> <a href="/hebrew/1621.htm" title="1621: gar·gə·rō·w·ṯe·ḵā (N-fpc:: 2ms) -- Neck. Feminine plural from garar; the throat.">around your neck,</a> <a href="/hebrew/3789.htm" title="3789: kā·ṯə·ḇêm (V-Qal-Imp-ms:: 3mp) -- To write. A primitive root; to grave, by implication, to write.">write them</a> <a href="/hebrew/5921.htm" title="5921: ‘al- (Prep) -- Properly, the same as al used as a preposition; above, over, upon, or against in a great variety of applications.">on</a> <a href="/hebrew/3871.htm" title="3871: lū·aḥ (N-msc) -- A tablet, board or plank, a plate. Or luach; from a primitive root; probably meaning to glisten; a tablet, of stone, wood or metal.">the tablet</a> <a href="/hebrew/3820.htm" title="3820: lib·be·ḵā (N-msc:: 2ms) -- A form of lebab; the heart; also used very widely for the feelings, the will and even the intellect; likewise for the centre of anything.">of your heart.</a> </span><span class="reftext">4</span>Then you will find favor and high regard in the sight of God and man.…<div class="cred"><a href="//berean.bible">Berean Standard Bible</a> · <a href="//berean.bible/downloads.htm">Download</a></div><span class="p"><br /><br /></span><a name="crossref" id="crossref"></a><div class="vheading">Cross References</div><div id="crf"><span class="crossverse"><a href="/deuteronomy/6-6.htm">Deuteronomy 6:6-9</a></span><br />These words I am commanding you today are to be upon your hearts. / And you shall teach them diligently to your children and speak of them when you sit at home and when you walk along the road, when you lie down and when you get up. / Tie them as reminders on your hands and bind them on your foreheads. ...<span class="p"><br /><br /></span><span class="crossverse"><a href="/jeremiah/31-33.htm">Jeremiah 31:33</a></span><br />“But this is the covenant I will make with the house of Israel after those days, declares the LORD. I will put My law in their minds and inscribe it on their hearts. And I will be their God, and they will be My people.<span class="p"><br /><br /></span><span class="crossverse"><a href="/hebrews/8-10.htm">Hebrews 8:10</a></span><br />For this is the covenant I will make with the house of Israel after those days, declares the Lord. I will put My laws in their minds and inscribe them on their hearts. And I will be their God, and they will be My people.<span class="p"><br /><br /></span><span class="crossverse"><a href="/2_corinthians/3-3.htm">2 Corinthians 3:3</a></span><br />It 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.<span class="p"><br /><br /></span><span class="crossverse"><a href="/psalms/119-11.htm">Psalm 119:11</a></span><br />I have hidden Your word in my heart that I might not sin against You.<span class="p"><br /><br /></span><span class="crossverse"><a href="/colossians/3-16.htm">Colossians 3:16</a></span><br />Let the word of Christ richly dwell within you as you teach and admonish one another with all wisdom, and as you sing psalms, hymns, and spiritual songs with gratitude in your hearts to God.<span class="p"><br /><br /></span><span class="crossverse"><a href="/john/14-15.htm">John 14:15</a></span><br />If you love Me, you will keep My commandments.<span class="p"><br /><br /></span><span class="crossverse"><a href="/matthew/22-37.htm">Matthew 22:37-40</a></span><br />Jesus declared, “‘Love the Lord your God with all your heart and with all your soul and with all your mind.’ / This is the first and greatest commandment. / And the second is like it: ‘Love your neighbor as yourself.’ ...<span class="p"><br /><br /></span><span class="crossverse"><a href="/1_john/3-18.htm">1 John 3:18</a></span><br />Little children, let us love not in word and speech, but in action and truth.<span class="p"><br /><br /></span><span class="crossverse"><a href="/romans/13-8.htm">Romans 13:8-10</a></span><br />Be indebted to no one, except to one another in love. For he who loves his neighbor has fulfilled the law. / The commandments “Do not commit adultery,” “Do not murder,” “Do not steal,” “Do not covet,” and any other commandments, are summed up in this one decree: “Love your neighbor as yourself.” / Love does no wrong to its neighbor. Therefore love is the fulfillment of the law.<span class="p"><br /><br /></span><span class="crossverse"><a href="/ephesians/4-15.htm">Ephesians 4:15</a></span><br />Instead, speaking the truth in love, we will in all things grow up into Christ Himself, who is the head.<span class="p"><br /><br /></span><span class="crossverse"><a href="/1_peter/1-22.htm">1 Peter 1:22</a></span><br />Since you have purified your souls by obedience to the truth so that you have a genuine love for your brothers, love one another deeply, from a pure heart.<span class="p"><br /><br /></span><span class="crossverse"><a href="/galatians/5-22.htm">Galatians 5:22-23</a></span><br />But the fruit of the Spirit is love, joy, peace, patience, kindness, goodness, faithfulness, / gentleness, and self-control. Against such things there is no law.<span class="p"><br /><br /></span><span class="crossverse"><a href="/1_timothy/1-5.htm">1 Timothy 1:5</a></span><br />The goal of our instruction is the love that comes from a pure heart, a clear conscience, and a sincere faith.<span class="p"><br /><br /></span><span class="crossverse"><a href="/james/2-8.htm">James 2:8</a></span><br />If you really fulfill the royal law stated in Scripture, “Love your neighbor as yourself,” you are doing well.</div><span class="p"><br /><br /></span><a name="tsk" id="tsk"><div class="vheading">Treasury of Scripture</div><p class="tsk2">Let not mercy and truth forsake you: bind them about your neck; write them on the table of your heart:</p><p class="hdg">mercy</p><p class="tskverse"><b><a href="/proverbs/16-6.htm">Proverbs 16:6</a></b></br> By mercy and truth iniquity is purged: and by the fear of the LORD <i>men</i> depart from evil.</p><p class="tskverse"><b><a href="/proverbs/20-28.htm">Proverbs 20:28</a></b></br> Mercy and truth preserve the king: and his throne is upholden by mercy.</p><p class="tskverse"><b><a href="/2_samuel/15-20.htm">2 Samuel 15:20</a></b></br> Whereas thou camest <i>but</i> yesterday, should I this day make thee go up and down with us? seeing I go whither I may, return thou, and take back thy brethren: mercy and truth <i>be</i> with thee.</p><p class="hdg">bind</p><p class="tskverse"><b><a href="/proverbs/6-21.htm">Proverbs 6:21</a></b></br> Bind them continually upon thine heart, <i>and</i> tie them about thy neck.</p><p class="tskverse"><b><a href="/proverbs/7-3.htm">Proverbs 7:3</a></b></br> Bind them upon thy fingers, write them upon the table of thine heart.</p><p class="tskverse"><b><a href="/exodus/13-9.htm">Exodus 13:9</a></b></br> And it shall be for a sign unto thee upon thine hand, and for a memorial between thine eyes, that the LORD'S law may be in thy mouth: for with a strong hand hath the LORD brought thee out of Egypt.</p><p class="hdg">write</p><p class="tskverse"><b><a href="/jeremiah/17-1.htm">Jeremiah 17:1</a></b></br> The sin of Judah <i>is</i> written with a pen of iron, <i>and</i> with the point of a diamond: <i>it is</i> graven upon the table of their heart, and upon the horns of your altars;</p><p class="tskverse"><b><a href="/2_corinthians/3-3.htm">2 Corinthians 3:3</a></b></br> <i>Forasmuch as ye are</i> manifestly declared to be the epistle of Christ ministered by us, written not with ink, but with the Spirit of the living God; not in tables of stone, but in fleshy tables of the heart.</p><p class="tskverse"><b><a href="/hebrews/10-16.htm">Hebrews 10:16</a></b></br> This <i>is</i> the covenant that I will make with them after those days, saith the Lord, I will put my laws into their hearts, and in their minds will I write them;</p><div class="vheading">Jump to Previous</div><a href="/psalms/149-8.htm">Bind</a> <a href="/psalms/146-6.htm">Faith</a> <a href="/psalms/143-1.htm">Faithfulness</a> <a href="/proverbs/2-13.htm">Forsake</a> <a href="/proverbs/2-21.htm">Good</a> <a href="/psalms/137-2.htm">Hanging</a> <a href="/proverbs/3-1.htm">Heart</a> <a href="/psalms/147-11.htm">Kindness</a> <a href="/proverbs/2-13.htm">Leave</a> <a href="/psalms/147-11.htm">Loving-Kindness</a> <a href="/psalms/147-11.htm">Mercy</a> <a href="/proverbs/1-9.htm">Neck</a> <a href="/psalms/139-16.htm">Recorded</a> <a href="/psalms/140-9.htm">Round</a> <a href="/psalms/128-3.htm">Table</a> <a href="/luke/1-63.htm">Tablet</a> <a href="/psalms/146-6.htm">Truth</a> <a href="/psalms/87-6.htm">Write</a><div class="vheading2">Jump to Next</div><a href="/proverbs/6-21.htm">Bind</a> <a href="/proverbs/8-7.htm">Faith</a> <a href="/proverbs/12-17.htm">Faithfulness</a> <a href="/proverbs/4-2.htm">Forsake</a> <a href="/proverbs/3-4.htm">Good</a> <a href="/proverbs/6-21.htm">Hanging</a> <a href="/proverbs/3-5.htm">Heart</a> <a href="/proverbs/14-22.htm">Kindness</a> <a href="/proverbs/9-6.htm">Leave</a> <a href="/isaiah/54-10.htm">Loving-Kindness</a> <a href="/proverbs/6-34.htm">Mercy</a> <a href="/proverbs/3-22.htm">Neck</a> <a href="/proverbs/7-3.htm">Recorded</a> <a href="/proverbs/6-21.htm">Round</a> <a href="/proverbs/7-3.htm">Table</a> <a href="/proverbs/7-3.htm">Tablet</a> <a href="/proverbs/8-7.htm">Truth</a> <a href="/proverbs/7-3.htm">Write</a><div class="vheading2">Proverbs 3</div><span class="reftext">1. </span><span class="outlinetext"><a href="/proverbs/3-1.htm">various exhortations</a></span><br><span class="reftext">13. </span><span class="outlinetext"><a href="/proverbs/3-13.htm">The gain of wisdom</a></span><br><span class="reftext">27. </span><span class="outlinetext"><a href="/proverbs/3-27.htm">Exhortation to goodness</a></span><br><span class="reftext">33. </span><span class="outlinetext"><a href="/proverbs/3-33.htm">the different state of the wicked and upright</a></span><br></div></div><div id="mdd"><div align="center"><div class="bot2"><table align="center" width="100%"><tr><td><div align="center"> <script id="3d27ed63fc4348d5b062c4527ae09445"> (new Image()).src = 'https://capi.connatix.com/tr/si?token=51ce25d5-1a8c-424a-8695-4bd48c750f35&cid=3a9f82d0-4344-4f8d-ac0c-e1a0eb43a405'; 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In the Hebrew context, "loving devotion" is often translated from the word "chesed," which signifies a covenantal love that is enduring and faithful. This concept is seen in God's relationship with Israel, where His loving devotion remains despite their unfaithfulness (<a href="/exodus/34-6.htm">Exodus 34:6-7</a>). Faithfulness, or "emet" in Hebrew, implies truth and reliability. The call to never let these qualities leave you suggests a continual, active commitment to embody these virtues in one's life. This aligns with the New Testament teachings of love and faithfulness as fruits of the Spirit (<a href="/galatians/5-22.htm">Galatians 5:22-23</a>).<p><b>bind them around your neck,</b><br>The imagery of binding these virtues around one's neck suggests making them a visible and integral part of one's identity. In ancient Near Eastern cultures, wearing something around the neck was a sign of honor and a constant reminder of one's commitments or beliefs. This is similar to the practice of wearing phylacteries in Jewish tradition, where scripture is literally bound to the body (<a href="/deuteronomy/6-8.htm">Deuteronomy 6:8</a>). The neck, being a central and visible part of the body, symbolizes the importance of these virtues being evident in one's actions and interactions with others.<p><b>write them on the tablet of your heart.</b><br>Writing on the heart implies internalizing these virtues so they become part of one's innermost being. In biblical times, tablets were used for recording important information, signifying permanence and importance. The heart, in Hebrew thought, is the center of one's will and emotions, not just the seat of feelings but the core of decision-making and moral character. This phrase echoes the promise of the New Covenant, where God writes His laws on the hearts of His people (<a href="/jeremiah/31-33.htm">Jeremiah 31:33</a>). It also points to the transformative work of Christ, who enables believers to embody God's love and faithfulness through the Holy Spirit (<a href="/2_corinthians/3-3.htm">2 Corinthians 3:3</a>).<div class="vheading2">Persons / Places / Events</div>1. <b><a href="/topical/s/solomon.htm">Solomon</a></b><br>Traditionally considered the author of Proverbs, Solomon was the son of King David and known for his wisdom. He wrote Proverbs to impart wisdom and understanding.<br><br>2. <b><a href="/topical/i/israel.htm">Israel</a></b><br>The nation to whom the Proverbs were initially addressed, representing God's chosen people who were to live by His statutes and wisdom.<br><br>3. <b><a href="/topical/t/the_heart.htm">The Heart</a></b><br>In Hebrew thought, the heart is the center of one's inner life, encompassing mind, will, and emotions. It is the place where God's truth and kindness should be inscribed.<div class="vheading2">Teaching Points</div><b><a href="/topical/t/the_importance_of_kindness_and_truth.htm">The Importance of Kindness and Truth</a></b><br>Kindness and truth are foundational virtues in a believer's life. They reflect God's character and should be evident in our interactions with others.<br><br><b><a href="/topical/b/binding_and_writing_as_symbols_of_commitment.htm">Binding and Writing as Symbols of Commitment</a></b><br>The imagery of binding and writing signifies a deep, personal commitment to embodying these virtues. It suggests that they should be integral to our identity.<br><br><b><a href="/topical/t/the_heart_as_the_center_of_transformation.htm">The Heart as the Center of Transformation</a></b><br>True transformation begins in the heart. By inscribing kindness and truth on our hearts, we allow God to shape our character from the inside out.<br><br><b><a href="/topical/p/practical_ways_to_cultivate_kindness_and_truth.htm">Practical Ways to Cultivate Kindness and Truth</a></b><br>Engage in regular self-reflection and prayer, asking God to reveal areas where you can grow in kindness and truth.<br><br>Practice these virtues in daily interactions, seeking to be consistent in both word and deed.<div class="vheading2">Lists and Questions</div><a href="/top10/lessons_from_proverbs_3.htm">Top 10 Lessons from Proverbs 3</a><span class="p"><br /><br /></span><a href="/q/meaning_of_'righteous_scarcely_saved'.htm">What does 'Rejoice in the Wife of Your Youth' mean?</a><span class="p"><br /><br /></span><a href="/q/what_does_god's_favor_mean.htm">What does God's favor mean?</a><span class="p"><br /><br /></span><a href="/q/does_love_always_involve_trust.htm">Does love always involve trust?</a><span class="p"><br /><br /></span><a href="/q/how_to_inscribe_mercy_and_truth.htm">How can you inscribe mercy and truth in your heart?</a><a name="commentary" id="commentary"></a><div class="vheading2"><a href="/commentaries/ellicott/proverbs/3.htm">Ellicott's Commentary for English Readers</a></div>(3) <span class= "bld">Mercy.</span>--Or rather, <span class= "ital">love, </span>shown by God to man (<a href="/exodus/34-7.htm" title="Keeping mercy for thousands, forgiving iniquity and transgression and sin, and that will by no means clear the guilty; visiting the iniquity of the fathers on the children, and on the children's children, to the third and to the fourth generation.">Exodus 34:7</a>), by man to God (<a href="/jeremiah/2-2.htm" title="Go and cry in the ears of Jerusalem, saying, Thus said the LORD; I remember you, the kindness of your youth, the love of your espousals, when you went after me in the wilderness, in a land that was not sown.">Jeremiah 2:2</a>), and to his fellow man (<a href="/genesis/21-23.htm" title="Now therefore swear to me here by God that you will not deal falsely with me, nor with my son, nor with my son's son: but according to the kindness that I have done to you, you shall do to me, and to the land wherein you have sojourned.">Genesis 21:23</a>); "truth," or rather, <span class= "ital">faithfulness, </span>especially in keeping promises, is similarly used both of God (<a href="/psalms/30-10.htm" title="Hear, O LORD, and have mercy on me: LORD, be you my helper.">Psalm 30:10</a>) and man (<a href="/isaiah/59-14.htm" title="And judgment is turned away backward, and justice stands afar off: for truth is fallen in the street, and equity cannot enter.">Isaiah 59:14</a>). The two are often joined, as in this place. They are the two special attributes by which God is known in His dealings with men (<a href="/context/exodus/34-6.htm" title="And the LORD passed by before him, and proclaimed, The LORD, The LORD God, merciful and gracious, long-suffering, and abundant in goodness and truth,">Exodus 34:6-7</a>), and as such must be imitated by man (<a href="/matthew/5-48.htm" title="Be you therefore perfect, even as your Father which is in heaven is perfect.">Matthew 5:48</a>). . . . <div class="vheading2"><a href="/commentaries/pulpit/proverbs/3.htm">Pulpit Commentary</a></div><span class="cmt_sub_title">Verse 3.</span> - <span class="cmt_word">Mercy and truth</span> (<span class="accented">khesed vermeth</span>); properly, <span class="accented">love and truth</span>; Vulgate, <span class="accented">misericordia et veritas</span>; LXX., <span class="greek">ἐλεημοσύναι καὶ</span> <span class="greek">πίστεις</span>. With this verse begin the commandments which are alluded to in ver. 1. The Hebrew <span class="accented">khesed</span> has to be understood in its widest sense, though the Vulgate and the LXX. confine it to one aspect of its meaning, viz. that which refers to the relation of man to man, to the pity evoked by the sight of another's misfortunes, and to ahnsgiving. The radical meaning of the word is "ardent desire," from the root <span class="accented">khasad</span>, "to eagerly or ardently desire." Delitzsch describes it as "well affectedness." Predicated of God, it indicates God's love and grace towards man; predicated of man, it signifies man's love toward s God, <span class="accented">i.e.</span> piety, or man's love towards his neighbour, <span class="accented">i.e.</span> humanity. Where this mercy or love is exhibited in man it finds expression in <p><span class="note_emph">(1)</span> mutual outward help; <p><span class="note_emph">(2)</span> forgiveness of offences; <p><span class="note_emph">(3)</span> sympathy of feeling, which leads to interchange of thought, and so to the development of the spiritual life (see Elster, <span class="accented">in loc.</span>). . . . <span class="p"><br /><br /></span><span class="versiontext"><a href="/commentaries/proverbs/3-3.htm">Parallel Commentaries ...</a></span><span class="p"><br /><br /><br /></span><a name="lexicon" id="lexicon"></a><div class="vheading">Hebrew</div><span class="word">Never</span><br /><span class="heb">אַֽל־</span> <span class="translit">(’al-)</span><br /><span class="parse">Adverb<br /></span><span class="str"><a href="/hebrew/strongs_408.htm">Strong's 408: </a> </span><span class="str2">Not</span><br /><br /><span class="word">let loving devotion</span><br /><span class="heb">חֶ֥סֶד</span> <span class="translit">(ḥe·seḏ)</span><br /><span class="parse">Noun - masculine singular<br /></span><span class="str"><a href="/hebrew/strongs_2617.htm">Strong's 2617: </a> </span><span class="str2">Kindness, piety, reproof, beauty</span><br /><br /><span class="word">or faithfulness</span><br /><span class="heb">וֶאֱמֶ֗ת</span> <span class="translit">(we·’ĕ·meṯ)</span><br /><span class="parse">Conjunctive waw | Noun - feminine singular<br /></span><span class="str"><a href="/hebrew/strongs_571.htm">Strong's 571: </a> </span><span class="str2">Stability, certainty, truth, trustworthiness</span><br /><br /><span class="word">leave you;</span><br /><span class="heb">יַעַ֫זְבֻ֥ךָ</span> <span class="translit">(ya·‘az·ḇu·ḵā)</span><br /><span class="parse">Verb - Qal - Imperfect - third person masculine plural | second person masculine singular<br /></span><span class="str"><a href="/hebrew/strongs_5800.htm">Strong's 5800: </a> </span><span class="str2">To loosen, relinquish, permit</span><br /><br /><span class="word">bind</span><br /><span class="heb">קָשְׁרֵ֥ם</span> <span class="translit">(qā·šə·rêm)</span><br /><span class="parse">Verb - Qal - Imperative - masculine singular | third person masculine plural<br /></span><span class="str"><a href="/hebrew/strongs_7194.htm">Strong's 7194: </a> </span><span class="str2">To tie, gird, confine, compact, in love, league</span><br /><br /><span class="word">them</span><br /><span class="heb">עַל־</span> <span class="translit">(‘al-)</span><br /><span class="parse">Preposition<br /></span><span class="str"><a href="/hebrew/strongs_5921.htm">Strong's 5921: </a> </span><span class="str2">Above, over, upon, against</span><br /><br /><span class="word">around your neck,</span><br /><span class="heb">גַּרְגְּרוֹתֶ֑יךָ</span> <span class="translit">(gar·gə·rō·w·ṯe·ḵā)</span><br /><span class="parse">Noun - feminine plural construct | second person masculine singular<br /></span><span class="str"><a href="/hebrew/strongs_1621.htm">Strong's 1621: </a> </span><span class="str2">The throat</span><br /><br /><span class="word">write</span><br /><span class="heb">כָּ֝תְבֵ֗ם</span> <span class="translit">(kā·ṯə·ḇêm)</span><br /><span class="parse">Verb - Qal - Imperative - masculine singular | third person masculine plural<br /></span><span class="str"><a href="/hebrew/strongs_3789.htm">Strong's 3789: </a> </span><span class="str2">To grave, to write</span><br /><br /><span class="word">them on</span><br /><span class="heb">עַל־</span> <span class="translit">(‘al-)</span><br /><span class="parse">Preposition<br /></span><span class="str"><a href="/hebrew/strongs_5921.htm">Strong's 5921: </a> </span><span class="str2">Above, over, upon, against</span><br /><br /><span class="word">the tablet</span><br /><span class="heb">ל֥וּחַ</span> <span class="translit">(lū·aḥ)</span><br /><span class="parse">Noun - masculine singular construct<br /></span><span class="str"><a href="/hebrew/strongs_3871.htm">Strong's 3871: </a> </span><span class="str2">To glisten, a tablet, of stone, wood, metal</span><br /><br /><span class="word">of your heart.</span><br /><span class="heb">לִבֶּֽךָ׃</span> <span class="translit">(lib·be·ḵā)</span><br /><span class="parse">Noun - masculine singular construct | second person masculine singular<br /></span><span class="str"><a href="/hebrew/strongs_3820.htm">Strong's 3820: </a> </span><span class="str2">The heart, the feelings, the will, the intellect, centre</span><br /><span class="p"><br /><br /></span><div class="vheading">Links</div><a href="/niv/proverbs/3-3.htm">Proverbs 3:3 NIV</a><br /><a href="/nlt/proverbs/3-3.htm">Proverbs 3:3 NLT</a><br /><a href="/esv/proverbs/3-3.htm">Proverbs 3:3 ESV</a><br /><a href="/nasb/proverbs/3-3.htm">Proverbs 3:3 NASB</a><br /><a href="/kjv/proverbs/3-3.htm">Proverbs 3:3 KJV</a><span class="p"><br /><br /></span><a href="//bibleapps.com/proverbs/3-3.htm">Proverbs 3:3 BibleApps.com</a><br /><a href="//bibliaparalela.com/proverbs/3-3.htm">Proverbs 3:3 Biblia Paralela</a><br /><a href="//holybible.com.cn/proverbs/3-3.htm">Proverbs 3:3 Chinese Bible</a><br /><a href="//saintebible.com/proverbs/3-3.htm">Proverbs 3:3 French Bible</a><br /><a href="/catholic/proverbs/3-3.htm">Proverbs 3:3 Catholic Bible</a><span class="p"><br /><br /></span><a href="/proverbs/3-3.htm">OT Poetry: Proverbs 3:3 Don't let kindness and truth forsake you (Prov. 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