Verse 21
Proverbs 6:21
Geneva Bible
21
Binde them alway vpon thine heart, and tye them about thy necke.
Original Language Text
hebrew
קָשְׁרֵ֣/ם עַל לִבְּ/ךָ֣ תָמִ֑יד עָ֝נְדֵ֗/ם עַל גַּרְגְּרֹתֶֽ/ךָ
English Translation
Bind them upon your heart always; tie them upon your neck.
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Chapter 6 Context
1
My sonne, if thou be surety for thy neighbour, and hast striken hands with the stranger,
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Thou art snared with the wordes of thy mouth: thou art euen taken with the woordes of thine owne mou...
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Doe this nowe, my sonne, and deliuer thy selfe: seeing thou art come into the hande of thy neighbour...
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Giue no sleepe to thine eyes, nor slumber to thine eyelids.
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Deliuer thy selfe as a doe from the hande of the hunter, and as a birde from the hande of the fouler...
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Goe to the pismire, O sluggarde: beholde her waies, and be wise.
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For shee hauing no guide, gouernour, nor ruler,
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Prepareth her meat in the sommer, and gathereth her foode in haruest.
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Howe long wilt thou sleepe, O sluggarde? when wilt thou arise out of thy sleepe?
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Yet a litle sleepe, a litle slumber, a litle folding of the hands to sleepe.
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Therefore thy pouertie commeth as one that trauaileth by the way, and thy necessitie like an armed m...
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The vnthriftie man and the wicked man walketh with a froward mouth.
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He maketh a signe with his eyes: he signifieth with his feete: he instructeth with his fingers.
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Lewde things are in his heart: he imagineth euill at all times, and raiseth vp contentions.
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Therefore shall his destruction come speedily: hee shall be destroyed suddenly without recouerie.
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These sixe things doeth the Lord hate: yea, his soule abhorreth seuen:
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The hautie eyes, a lying tongue, and the hands that shed innocent blood,
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An heart that imagineth wicked enterprises, feete that be swift in running to mischiefe,
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A false witnesse that speaketh lyes, and him that rayseth vp contentions among brethren.
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My sonne, keepe thy fathers commandement, and forsake not thy mothers instruction.
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Binde them alway vpon thine heart, and tye them about thy necke.
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It shall leade thee, when thou walkest: it shall watch for thee, when thou sleepest, and when thou w...
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For the commandement is a lanterne, and instruction a light: and corrections for instruction are the...
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To keepe thee from the wicked woman, and from ye flatterie of ye tongue of a strange woman.
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Desire not her beautie in thine heart, neither let her take thee with her eye lids.
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For because of the whorish woman a man is brought to a morsell of bread, and a woman wil hunt for th...
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Can a man take fire in his bosome, and his clothes not be burnt?
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Or can a man go vpon coales, and his feete not be burnt?
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So he that goeth in to his neighbours wife, shall not be innocent, whosoeuer toucheth her.
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Men do not despise a thiefe, when he stealeth, to satisfie his soule, because he is hungrie.
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But if he be founde, he shall restore seuen folde, or he shall giue all the substance of his house.
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But he that committeth adulterie with a woman, he is destitute of vnderstanding: he that doeth it, d...
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He shall finde a wounde and dishonour, and his reproch shall neuer be put away.
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For ielousie is the rage of a man: therefore he will not spare in the day of vengeance.
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He cannot beare the sight of any raunsome: neither will he consent, though thou augment the giftes.
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