Proverbs 7:3

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Proverbs 7:1–5 · Berean Standard Bible

1 My son, keep my words and treasure my commandments within you.

2 Keep my commandments and live; guard my teachings as the apple of your eye.

3 Tie them to your fingers; write them on the tablet of your heart.

4 Say to wisdom, “You are my sister,” and call understanding your kinsman,

5 that they may keep you from the adulteress, from the stranger with seductive words.

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The Treasury of Scripture Knowledge lists these related verses. Scripture text comes from the Berean Standard Bible.

Proverbs 3:3

Never let loving devotion or faithfulness leave you; bind them around your neck, write them on the tablet of your heart.

Proverbs 6:21

Bind them always upon your heart; tie them around your neck.

Deuteronomy 6:8

Tie them as reminders on your hands and bind them on your foreheads.

Deuteronomy 6:9

Write them on the doorposts of your houses and on your gates.

Deuteronomy 11:18

Fix these words of mine in your hearts and minds; tie them as reminders on your hands and bind them on your foreheads.

Deuteronomy 11:19

Teach them to your children, speaking about them when you sit at home and when you walk along the road, when you lie down and when you get up.

Deuteronomy 11:20

Write them on the doorposts of your houses and on your gates,

Isaiah 30:8

Go now, write it on a tablet in their presence and inscribe it on a scroll; it will be for the days to come, a witness forever and ever.

Jeremiah 17:1

“The sin of Judah is written with an iron stylus, engraved with a diamond point on the tablets of their hearts and on the horns of their altars.

Jeremiah 31:33

“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.

2 Corinthians 3:3

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.