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21 Keep their words always in your heart.
    Tie them around your neck.

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21 Bind them always on your heart;
    fasten them around your neck.(A)

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

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Let love and faithfulness(A) never leave you;
    bind them around your neck,
    write them on the tablet of your heart.(B)

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Clearly, you are a letter from Christ showing the result of our ministry among you. This “letter” is written not with pen and ink, but with the Spirit of the living God. It is carved not on tablets of stone, but on human hearts.

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You show that you are a letter from Christ, the result of our ministry, written not with ink but with the Spirit of the living God,(A) not on tablets of stone(B) but on tablets of human hearts.(C)

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Tie them on your fingers as a reminder.
    Write them deep within your heart.

Love wisdom like a sister;
    make insight a beloved member of your family.

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Bind them on your fingers;
    write them on the tablet of your heart.(A)
Say to wisdom, “You are my sister,”
    and to insight, “You are my relative.”

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21 Don’t lose sight of them.
    Let them penetrate deep into your heart,

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21 Do not let them out of your sight,(A)
    keep them within your heart;

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Don’t turn your back on wisdom, for she will protect you.
    Love her, and she will guard you.

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Do not forsake wisdom, and she will protect you;(A)
    love her, and she will watch over you.(B)

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Tie them to your hands and wear them on your forehead as reminders.

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Tie them as symbols on your hands and bind them on your foreheads.(A)

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16 This ceremony will be like a mark branded on your hand or your forehead. It is a reminder that the power of the Lord’s mighty hand brought us out of Egypt.”

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16 And it will be like a sign on your hand and a symbol on your forehead(A) that the Lord brought us out of Egypt with his mighty hand.”

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