Proverbs 1:9
Modern Translations
New International Version
They are a garland to grace your head and a chain to adorn your neck.

New Living Translation
What you learn from them will crown you with grace and be a chain of honor around your neck.

English Standard Version
for they are a graceful garland for your head and pendants for your neck.

Berean Study Bible
For they are a garland of grace on your head and a pendant around your neck.

New American Standard Bible
For they are a graceful wreath for your head And necklaces for your neck.

NASB 1995
Indeed, they are a graceful wreath to your head And ornaments about your neck.

NASB 1977
Indeed, they are a graceful wreath to your head, And ornaments about your neck.

Amplified Bible
For they are a garland of grace on your head, And chains and ornaments [of gold] around your neck.

Christian Standard Bible
for they will be a garland of favor on your head and pendants around your neck.

Holman Christian Standard Bible
for they will be a garland of grace on your head and a gold chain around your neck.

Contemporary English Version
and wear their teachings as you would a pretty hat or a lovely necklace.

Good News Translation
Their teaching will improve your character as a handsome turban or a necklace improves your appearance.

GOD'S WORD® Translation
because discipline and teachings are a graceful garland on your head and a [golden] chain around your neck.

International Standard Version
They will be a graceful wreath for your head and a chain for your neck.

NET Bible
For they will be like an elegant garland on your head, and like pendants around your neck.
Classic Translations
King James Bible
For they shall be an ornament of grace unto thy head, and chains about thy neck.

New King James Version
For they will be a graceful ornament on your head, And chains about your neck.

King James 2000 Bible
For they shall be an ornament of grace unto your head, and chains about your neck.

New Heart English Bible
for they will be a garland to grace your head, and a necklace around your neck.

World English Bible
for they will be a garland to grace your head, and chains around your neck.

American King James Version
For they shall be an ornament of grace to your head, and chains about your neck.

American Standard Version
For they shall be a chaplet of grace unto thy head, And chains about thy neck.

A Faithful Version
For they shall be an ornament of grace to your head and chains around your neck.

Darby Bible Translation
for they shall be a garland of grace unto thy head, and chains about thy neck.

English Revised Version
For they shall be a chaplet of grace unto thy head, and chains about thy neck.

Webster's Bible Translation
For they shalt be an ornament of grace to thy head, and chains about thy neck.

Early Modern
Geneva Bible of 1587
For they shalbe a comely ornament vnto thine head, and as chaines for thy necke.

Bishops' Bible of 1568
For they shalbe an encrease of grace vnto thy head, and as a chayne about thy necke.

Coverdale Bible of 1535
for that shal brynge grace vnto thy heade, & shalbe a cheyne aboute thy necke.
Literal Translations
Literal Standard Version
For they [are] a graceful wreath to your head, "" And chains to your neck.

Young's Literal Translation
For a graceful wreath are they to thy head, And chains to thy neck.

Smith's Literal Translation
For they a garland of grace to thy head, and necklaces for thy throat.

Catholic Translations
Douay-Rheims Bible
That grace may be added to thy head, and a chain of gold to thy neck.

Catholic Public Domain Version
so that grace may be added to your head and a collar to your neck.

Translations from Aramaic
Peshitta Holy Bible Translated
For they are beauty to your head and a necklace for your neck.

Lamsa Bible
For they shall be an ornament of grace for your head and a necklace about your neck.

OT Translations
JPS Tanakh 1917
For they shall be a chaplet of grace unto thy head, And chains about thy neck.

Brenton Septuagint Translation
For thou shalt receive for thine head a crown of graces, and a chain of gold round thy neck.
















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