Proverbs 6:21 (BSB)

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

From Proverbs 6. Also in the ESV.

Commentary on Proverbs 6:21

• Matthew Henry (Presbyterian), Matthew Henry's Complete Commentary on Proverbs 6:20-35: Here is, I. A general exhortation faithfully to adhere to the word of God and to take it for our guide in all our actions. 1. We must look upon the word of God both as a light (Pro 6:23) and as a law, Pro 6:20, Pro 6:23.
• John Gill (Reformed Baptist), Exposition of the Old and New Testaments on Proverbs 6:21: When thou goest, it shall lead thee,.... The law of God taught by parents; this directs man in the path of duty and business of life; teaches him what way to shun, and which to walk in; it leads out of the paths of sin, and into the way in which he should go, which is most conducive to his good, and to the glory...
• Geneva Bible Notes (Reformed), Geneva Bible Study Notes on Proverbs 6:21: Bind them continually upon thine heart, [and] tie them about thy neck. (i) .
• Keil & Delitzsch (Lutheran), Biblical Commentary on the Old Testament on Proverbs 6:20-21: Pro 6:20-21 After these three smaller sections, the teacher of wisdom returns here to the theme of the eighth: Warning against sins of the flesh, whose power and prevalence among men is so immeasurably great, that their terrible consequences cannot sufficiently be held up before them, particularly before youth. 20 Keep, my son, the commandment of thy father, And reject not the instruction of thy mother.