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Proverbs 3:3

Let not mercy and truth forsake you; Bind them around your neck, Write them on the tablet of your heart,

Speech, truth and oaths

Key words: ḥeseḏ 'ĕmeṯ ʿāzaḇ lēḇ

Original words

EnglishOriginal wordRoot#
Letyaʿazḇuḵā יַעַזְבֻךָʿāzaḇ4
not'al אַל'al26
mercyḥeseḏ חֶסֶדḥeseḏ1
and truthve'ĕmeṯ וֶאֱמֶת'ĕmeṯ1
forsake theeyaʿazḇuḵā יַעַזְבֻךָʿāzaḇ4
bind themqāšrēm קָשְׁרֵםqāšar1
aboutʿal עַלʿal4
thy neckgargᵊrôṯêḵā גַּרְגְּרוֹתֶיךָgargᵊrôṯ2
write themkāṯḇēm כָּתְבֵםkāṯaḇ1
uponʿal עַלʿal4
the tablelûaḥ לוּחַlûaḥ1
of thine heartlibeḵā לִבֶּךָlēḇ5

Memory passages these point to

S-106 Hebrews 10:9-31S-27 Proverbs 6:20-35S-82 Matthew 23:17-39

Cross-references 19

Passages are shown in the NKJV.

mercy and truth forsake thee 9
  • Proverbs 16:6

    6In mercy and truth Atonement is provided for iniquity; And by the fear of the LORD one departs from evil.

  • Proverbs 20:28

    28Mercy and truth preserve the king, And by lovingkindness he upholds his throne.

  • 2 Samuel 15:20

    20In fact, you came only yesterday. Should I make you wander up and down with us today, since I go I know not where? Return, and take your brethren back. Mercy and truth be with you."

  • Psalms 25:10

    10All the paths of the LORD are mercy and truth, To such as keep His covenant and His testimonies.

  • Hosea 4:1

    1Hear the word of the LORD, You children of Israel, For the LORD brings a charge against the inhabitants of the land: "There is no truth or mercy Or knowledge of God in the land.

  • Micah 7:18-20

    18Who is a God like You, Pardoning iniquity And passing over the transgression of the remnant of His heritage? He does not retain His anger forever, Because He delights in mercy. 19He will again have compassion on us, And will subdue our iniquities. You will cast all our sins Into the depths of the sea. 20You will give truth to Jacob And mercy to Abraham, Which You have sworn to our fathers From days of old.

  • Malachi 2:6

    6The law of truth was in his mouth, And injustice was not found on his lips. He walked with Me in peace and equity, And turned many away from iniquity.

  • Matthew 23:23 S-82 Matthew 23:17-39

    23"Woe to you, scribes and Pharisees, hypocrites! For you pay tithe of mint and anise and cummin, and have neglected the weightier matters of the law: justice and mercy and faith. These you ought to have done, without leaving the others undone.

  • Ephesians 5:1-2, 9

    1Therefore be imitators of God as dear children. 2And walk in love, as Christ also has loved us and given Himself for us, an offering and a sacrifice to God for a sweet-smelling aroma.
    9(for the fruit of the Spirit is in all goodness, righteousness, and truth),

bind them about thy neck 6
  • Proverbs 6:21 S-27 Proverbs 6:20-35

    21Bind them continually upon your heart; Tie them around your neck.

  • Proverbs 7:3

    3Bind them on your fingers; Write them on the tablet of your heart.

  • Exodus 13:9

    9It shall be as a sign to you on your hand and as a memorial between your eyes, that the LORD's law may be in your mouth; for with a strong hand the LORD has brought you out of Egypt.

  • Deuteronomy 6:8

    8You shall bind them as a sign on your hand, and they shall be as frontlets between your eyes.

  • Deuteronomy 11:18-21

    18"Therefore you shall lay up these words of mine in your heart and in your soul, and bind them as a sign on your hand, and they shall be as frontlets between your eyes. 19You shall teach them to your children, speaking of them when you sit in your house, when you walk by the way, when you lie down, and when you rise up. 20And you shall write them on the doorposts of your house and on your gates, 21that your days and the days of your children may be multiplied in the land of which the LORD swore to your fathers to give them, like the days of the heavens above the earth.

  • Psalms 119:11

    11Your word I have hidden in my heart, That I might not sin against You.

write them upon the table of thine heart 3
  • Jeremiah 17:1

    1"The sin of Judah is written with a pen of iron; With the point of a diamond it is engraved On the tablet of their heart, And on the horns of your altars,

  • 2 Corinthians 3:3

    3clearly you are an epistle of Christ, ministered by us, written not with ink but by the Spirit of the living God, not on tablets of stone but on tablets of flesh, that is, of the heart.

  • Hebrews 10:16 S-106 Hebrews 10:9-31

    16"This is the covenant that I will make with them after those days, says the LORD: I will put My laws into their hearts, and in their minds I will write them,"

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