Proverbs 3:3
Modern Translations
New International Version
Let love and faithfulness never leave you; bind them around your neck, write them on the tablet of your heart.

New Living Translation
Never let loyalty and kindness leave you! Tie them around your neck as a reminder. Write them deep within your heart.

English Standard Version
Let not steadfast love and faithfulness forsake you; bind them around your neck; write them on the tablet of your heart.

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

New American Standard Bible
Do not let kindness and truth leave you; Bind them around your neck, Write them on the tablet of your heart.

NASB 1995
Do not let kindness and truth leave you; Bind them around your neck, Write them on the tablet of your heart.

NASB 1977
Do not let kindness and truth leave you; Bind them around your neck, Write them on the tablet of your heart.

Amplified Bible
Do not let mercy and 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.

Christian Standard Bible
Never let loyalty and faithfulness leave you. Tie them around your neck; write them on the tablet of your heart.

Holman Christian Standard Bible
Never let loyalty and faithfulness leave you. Tie them around your neck; write them on the tablet of your heart.

Contemporary English Version
Let love and loyalty always show like a necklace, and write them in your mind.

Good News Translation
Never let go of loyalty and faithfulness. Tie them around your neck; write them on your heart.

GOD'S WORD® Translation
Do not let mercy and truth leave you. Fasten them around your neck. Write them on the tablet of your heart.

International Standard Version
Do not let gracious love and truth leave you. Bind them around your neck, write them on the tablet of your heart,

NET Bible
Do not let truth and mercy leave you; bind them around your neck, write them on the tablet of your heart.
Classic Translations
King James Bible
Let not mercy and truth forsake thee: bind them about thy neck; write them upon the table of thine heart:

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

King James 2000 Bible
Let not mercy and truth forsake you: bind them about your neck; write them upon the table of your heart:

New Heart English Bible
Do not let kindness and truth forsake you. Bind them around your neck. Write them on the tablet of your heart.

World English Bible
Don't let kindness and truth forsake you. Bind them around your neck. Write them on the tablet of your heart.

American King James Version
Let not mercy and truth forsake you: bind them about your neck; write them on the table of your heart:

American Standard Version
Let not kindness and truth forsake thee: Bind them about thy neck; Write them upon the tablet of thy heart:

A Faithful Version
Do not let mercy and truth forsake you; bind them around your neck; write them upon the tablet of your heart;

Darby Bible Translation
Let not loving-kindness and truth forsake thee; bind them about thy neck, write them upon the tablet of thy heart:

English Revised Version
Let not mercy and truth forsake thee: bind them about thy neck; write them upon the table of thine heart:

Webster's Bible Translation
Let not mercy and truth forsake thee: bind them about thy neck; write them upon the table of thy heart:

Early Modern
Geneva Bible of 1587
Let not mercie and trueth forsake thee: binde them on thy necke, and write them vpon the table of thine heart.

Bishops' Bible of 1568
Let mercie and faithfulnesse neuer go from thee: binde them about thy necke, and write them in the tables of thyne heart:

Coverdale Bible of 1535
Let mercy & faithfulnes neuer go from ye: bynde the about yi necke, & wryte them in the tables of thine herte.
Literal Translations
Literal Standard Version
Do not let kindness and truth forsake you, "" Bind them on your neck, "" Write them on the tablet of your heart,

Young's Literal Translation
Let not kindness and truth forsake thee, Bind them on thy neck, Write them on the tablet of thy heart,

Smith's Literal Translation
Mercy and truth shall not forsake thee: bind them upon thy throat; write them upon the tablet of thy heart:

Catholic Translations
Douay-Rheims Bible
Let not mercy and truth leave thee, put them about thy neck, and write them in the tables of thy heart:

Catholic Public Domain Version
Let not mercy and truth abandon you: encircle them around your throat, and inscribe them on the tablets of your heart.

Translations from Aramaic
Peshitta Holy Bible Translated
And let not peace, favor and truth forsake you; bind them on your neck and write them upon the tablet of your heart

Lamsa Bible
And peace, mercy, and truth will not forsake you; bind them about your neck; write them upon the tablets of your heart:

OT Translations
JPS Tanakh 1917
Let not kindness and truth forsake thee; Bind them about thy neck, write them upon the table of thy heart;

Brenton Septuagint Translation
Let not mercy and truth forsake thee; but bind them about thy neck:
















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