For they shall be an ornament of grace to your head, and chains about your neck. Treasury of Scripture they Proverbs 3:22 So shall they be life to your soul, and grace to your neck. Proverbs 4:9 She shall give to your head an ornament of grace: a crown of glory shall she deliver to you. Proverbs 6:20,21 My son, keep your father's commandment, and forsake not the law of your mother... 1 Timothy 2:9,10 In like manner also, that women adorn themselves in modest apparel, with modesty and sobriety; not with braided hair, or gold... 1 Peter 3:3,4 Whose adorning let it not be that outward adorning of plaiting the hair, and of wearing of gold, or of putting on of apparel... ornament Songs 1:10 Your cheeks are comely with rows of jewels, your neck with chains of gold. Songs 4:9 You have ravished my heart, my sister, my spouse; you have ravished my heart with one of your eyes, with one chain of your neck. Isaiah 3:19 The chains, and the bracelets, and the mufflers, Ezekiel 16:11 I decked you also with ornaments, and I put bracelets on your hands, and a chain on your neck. Daniel 5:7,16,29 The king cried aloud to bring in the astrologers, the Chaldeans, and the soothsayers. And the king spoke...
Context The Enticement of Sin
8My son, hear the instruction of your father, and forsake not the law of your mother: 9For they shall be an ornament of grace to your head, and chains about your neck. 10My son, if sinners entice you, consent you not. 11If they say, Come with us, let us lay wait for blood, let us lurk privately for the innocent without cause: 12Let us swallow them up alive as the grave; and whole, as those that go down into the pit: 13We shall find all precious substance, we shall fill our houses with spoil: 14Cast in your lot among us; let us all have one purse: 15My son, walk not you in the way with them; refrain your foot from their path: 16For their feet run to evil, and make haste to shed blood. 17Surely in vain the net is spread in the sight of any bird. 18And they lay wait for their own blood; they lurk privately for their own lives. 19So are the ways of every one that is greedy of gain; which takes away the life of the owners thereof. Parallel Verses American Standard Version
For they shall be a chaplet of grace unto thy head, And chains about thy neck.
Douay-Rheims Bible
That grace may be added to thy head, and a chain of gold to thy neck.
Darby Bible Translation
for they shall be a garland of grace unto thy head, and chains about thy neck.
King James Bible
For they shall be an ornament of grace unto thy head, and chains about thy neck.
Young's Literal Translation
For a graceful wreath are they to thy head, And chains to thy neck.
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