◄ Proverbs 1:9 {10} ►
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Good News Translation
Their teaching will improve your character as a handsome turban or a necklace improves your appearance.

New Revised Standard Version
for they are a fair garland for your head, and pendants for your neck.

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

New American Bible
A graceful diadem will they be for your head; a pendant for your neck.

Douay-Rheims Bible
My son, if sinners shall entice thee, consent not to them.

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My son, if sinners shall entice thee, consent not to them.

they

Proverbs 3:22 Then shalt thou walk confidently in thy way, and thy foot shall not stumble:

Proverbs 4:9 Hear, O my son, and receive my words, that years of life may be multiplied to thee.

Proverbs 6:20,21 Bind them in thy heart continually, and put them about thy neck. . . .

1 Timothy 2:9,10 In like manner, women also in decent apparel: adorning themselves with modesty and sobriety, not with plaited hair, or gold, or pearls, or costly attire: . . .

1 Peter 3:3,4 Whose adorning, let it not be the outward plaiting of the hair, or the wearing of gold, or the putting on of apparel: . . .

ornament

Songs 1:10 We will make thee chains of gold, inlaid with silver.

Songs 4:9 Thou hast wounded my heart, my sister, my spouse, thou hast wounded my heart with one of thy eyes, and with one hair of thy neck.

Isaiah 3:19 And chains and necklaces, and bracelets, and bonnets,

Ezekiel 16:11 I decked thee also with ornaments, and put bracelets on thy hands, and a chain about thy neck.

Daniel 5:7,16,29 And the king cried out aloud to bring in the wise men, the Chaldeans, and the soothsayers. And the king spoke, and said to the wise men of Babylon: Whosoever shall read this writing, and shall make known to me the interpretation thereof, shall be clothed with purple, and shall have a golden chain on his neck, and shall be the third man in my kingdom. . . .

Context
The Enticement of Sin
8That grace may be added to thy head, and a chain of gold to thy neck. 9My son, if sinners shall entice thee, consent not to them.10If they shall say: Come with us, let us lie in wait for blood, let us hide snares for the innocent without cause:…
Cross References
Genesis 41:42
And he took his ring from his own hand, and gave it into his hand: and he put upon him a robe of silk, and put a chain of gold about his neck.

Psalm 73:6
Therefore pride hath held them fast: they are covered with their iniquity and their wickedness.

Proverbs 3:3
And thou shalt find grace, and good understanding before God and men.

Proverbs 3:22
Then shalt thou walk confidently in thy way, and thy foot shall not stumble:

Proverbs 4:9
Hear, O my son, and receive my words, that years of life may be multiplied to thee.

Songs 4:9
Thou hast wounded my heart, my sister, my spouse, thou hast wounded my heart with one of thy eyes, and with one hair of thy neck.

Jeremiah 35:8
Therefore we have obeyed the voice of Jonadab the son of Rechab, our father, in all things that he commanded us: so as to drink no wine all our days: neither we, nor our wives, nor our sons, nor our daughters:

Ezekiel 16:11
I decked thee also with ornaments, and put bracelets on thy hands, and a chain about thy neck.

Daniel 5:29
Then by the king's command, Daniel was clothed with purple, and a chain of gold was put about his neck: and it was proclaimed of him that he had power as the third man in the kingdom.

Proverbs 1:8
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