so they will be life to your soul, and grace for your neck.
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so they will be life to your soul, and grace for your neck.
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So shall they be life unto thy soul, and grace to thy neck.
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So shall they be life unto thy soul, and grace to thy neck.
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Passages linked to Proverbs 3:22 in the Treasury of Scripture Knowledge, ordered by reader-vote popularity; verse text shown in World English Bible.
- Proverbs 4:22 For they are life to those who find them, and health to their whole body.
- Proverbs 1:9 for they will be a garland to grace your head, and chains around your neck.
- Isaiah 38:16 Lord, men live by these things; and my spirit finds life in all of them: you restore me, and cause me to live.
- John 12:49-50 For I spoke not from myself, but the Father who sent me, he gave me a commandment, what I should say, and what I should speak. I know that his commandment is eternal life. The things therefore which I speak, even as the Father has said to me, so I speak.”
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Geneva Bible translators 1599 · Public Domain Or, throat, read Prov. 1:9.
Or, throat, read Prov. 1:9.
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John Trapp 1656 · Public Domain Pro 3:22 So shall they be life unto thy…
Pro 3:22 So shall they be life unto thy soul, and grace to thy neck.
Ver. 22. So shall they be life unto thy soul.] For "by these men live, and this is the spirit of my life," saith Hezekiah; {Isa 38:16} even what God hath spoken and done. {Pro 3:15} A godly man differs from a wicked, as much as a living man from a dead carcass. The wicked are stark dead, and stone cold. The saints also want heat sometimes, but they are soon made hot again; because there is life of soul in them, as charcoal is quickly kindled, because it hath been in the fire.
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And grace to thy neck.] Or, To thy throat; that is, to thy words uttered through the throat. {See Trapp on "Pro 1:9"}
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Matthew Poole 1685 · Public Domain Unto thy soul; either,
Unto thy soul; either,
1. To thee or thy person. They shall prolong and perpetuate thy life, and make it life indeed, to wit, pleasant and happy; whereas a miserable life is reputed a kind of death, and is oft so called. Or, to thy soul, properly so called. They shall quicken, and delight, and save thy soul.
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Grace to thy neck; like a beautiful chain or ornament about thy neck, as above, Pro 3:3; 1:9.
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John Gill 1763 · Public Domain So shall they be life unto thy soul,.... Give…
So shall they be life unto thy soul,.... Give it a better life than it naturally has, though immortal; Christ is both the spiritual and eternal life of the souls of those that look unto him by faith; and his Gospel, and the doctrines of it, are the means of reviving drooping saints, and of quickening them to the discharge of their duty; wherefore both he and they should be kept in continual view, and held fast;
and grace to thy neck; an ornament to that and to the whole man; how ornamental is Christ and his righteousness to a believer! how lovely is the person that is steady in his principles, and regular in his practices! who stands fast in the truths of the Gospel, and whose conversation is as becomes it! see Pro 1:9.
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John Wesley 1765 · Public Domain Grace - Like a beautiful chain or ornament.
Grace - Like a beautiful chain or ornament.
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Haydock's Catholic Bible Commentary 1859 · Public Domain Mouth. There have been wise and virtuous men afflicted,…
Mouth. There have been wise and virtuous men afflicted, ver. 11. But they have borne all with patience, and have merited a more glorious reward than what this earth could afford. (Calmet)
George Leo Haydock (1774–1849), Haydock's Catholic Family Bible and Commentary, 1859 edition — public domain. Excludes Psalms (Douay-Rheims chapter numbering differs from Protestant) and Deuterocanonical books (Catholic canon only).
Robert Jamieson, A. R. Fausset & David Brown 1871 · Public Domain assign reasons in their value for happiness and ornament,…
assign reasons in their value for happiness and ornament, guidance and support in dangers, both when waking and sleeping.
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Daniel D. Whedon 1874 · Public Domain 22. Life unto thy soul — The verse may…
22. Life unto thy soul — The verse may be rendered: Thus shall there be life (pl., intensive, great life) to “thy soul, and grace to thy neck.” They are both vital and ornamental.
Daniel D. Whedon (gen. ed.), Commentary on the Old and New Testaments (1874–1909) — public domain. Text from a community e-Sword module.
The Pulpit Commentary 1880 · Public Domain So shall they he life to thy soul, and…
So shall they he life to thy soul, and grace to thy neck. So shall they be (n"yikva); and they shall be. The "soul" and "neck" stand for the whole man in his twofold nature, internal and external. Life is in its highest and widest sense given to the soul, (see Pro_2:16, 18 4:22 8:35) and favour is conferred on the man, i.e. he becomes acceptable to his neighbours, if he has wisdom. The latter expression is very similar to Pro_1:9, where the same promise is expressed, "grace" (hon) being equivalent to "ornament of grace" (liv"yath hon). Others understand "grace to thy neck" (hon l"garg" grotheyka), as gratia guttturis, in the sense of "grace of the lips," as in Psa_45:3 and Pro_22:11, that is, as the grace of speaking, power of eloquent and effective utterance (Gejerus, Bayne, Lapide). It is better to take it as referring to the adornment of the personal character, and so by metonymy of the favour and kindness which it procures.
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