Proverbs 3:2 {3}
Good News Translation
My teaching will give you a long and prosperous life.

New Revised Standard Version
for length of days and years of life and abundant welfare they will give you.

Contemporary English Version
They will help you live a long and prosperous life.

New American Bible
For many days, and years of life, and peace, will they bring you.

Douay-Rheims Bible
Let not mercy aud truth leave thee, put them about thy neck, and write them in the tables of thy heart.

Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

Let not mercy aud truth leave thee, put them about thy neck, and write them in the tables of thy heart.

length

Proverbs 3:16 Her ways are beautiful ways, and all her paths are peaceable.

Proverbs 4:10 I will shew thee the way of wisdom, I will lead thee by the paths of equity:

Proverbs 9:11 If thou be wise, thou shalt be so to thyself: and if a scorner, thou alone shalt bear the evil.

Job 5:26 Thou shalt enter into the grave in abundance, as a heap of wheat is brought in its season.

Psalm 34:11-14 Come, children, hearken to me: I will teach you the fear of the Lord. . . .

Psalm 91:16 I will fill him with length of days; and I will shew him my salvation.

Psalm 128:6 And mayst thou see thy children's children, peace upon Israel.

Ephesians 6:1-3 Children, obey your parents in the Lord: for this is just. . . .

1 Timothy 4:8 For bodily exercise is profitable to little: but godliness is profitable to all things, having promise of the life that now is and of that which is to come.

long life

Psalm 21:4 He asked life of thee: and thou hast given him length of days for ever and ever.

and peace

Proverbs 3:17 She is a tree of life to them that lay hold on her: and he that shall retain her is blessed.

Psalm 119:165 Much peace have they that love thy law, and to them there is no stumbling block.

Isaiah 32:17 And the work of justice shall be peace, and the service of justice quietness, and security for ever.

Isaiah 57:19-21 I created the fruit of the lips, peace, peace to him that is far off, and to him that is near, said the Lord, and I healed him. . . .

Romans 5:1 Being justified therefore by faith, let us have peace with God, through our Lord Jesus Christ:

Romans 14:17 For the kingdom of God is not meat and drink: but justice and peace and joy in the Holy Ghost.

Romans 15:13 Now the God of hope fill you with all joy and peace in believing: that you may abound in hope and in the power of the Holy Ghost.

Context
Trust in the LORD
1For they shall add to thee length of days, and years of life, and peace. 2Let not mercy aud truth leave thee, put them about thy neck, and write them in the tables of thy heart.3And thou shalt find grace, and good understanding before God and men.…
Cross References
Deuteronomy 11:21
That thy days may be multiplied, and the days of thy children in the land which the Lord swore to thy fathers, that he would give them as long as the heaven hangeth over the earth.

1 Kings 3:14
And if thou wilt walk in my ways, and keep my precepts and my commandments, as thy father walked, I will lengthen thy days.

Psalm 91:16
I will fill him with length of days; and I will shew him my salvation.

Psalm 119:165
Much peace have they that love thy law, and to them there is no stumbling block.

Proverbs 3:16
Her ways are beautiful ways, and all her paths are peaceable.

Proverbs 4:10
I will shew thee the way of wisdom, I will lead thee by the paths of equity:

Proverbs 9:11
If thou be wise, thou shalt be so to thyself: and if a scorner, thou alone shalt bear the evil.

Proverbs 10:27
The expectation of the just is joy: but the hope of the wicked shall perish.

Proverbs 16:31
Old age is a crown of dignity, when it is found in the ways of justice.

Proverbs 3:1
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