Six ways to encounter God here
A passage is not only to be understood; it is to be lived with. Choose how you want to meet God in Proverbs 3:3, and Living Bread opens it right there.
Read itSit with the words themselves in The Word.Study itContext, cross-references, and questions in Bible Study.Be still in itLet it quiet you in the Sanctuary.Pray itTurn it into a prayer of your own.Hide it in your heartMemorize it, word by word.Encounter it togetherGather a few people to walk through it.
The web of Scripture around it
Where this passage echoes across the Bible, from the cross-reference graph, 12 connected Scriptures. Each one is a door to meet God there too.
- 2 Corinthians 3:3
Forasmuch as ye are manifestly declared to be the epistle of Christ ministered by us, written not with ink, but with the Spirit of the living God; not…
- Proverbs 7:3
Bind them upon thy fingers, write them upon the table of thine heart.
- Hebrews 10:16
This is the covenant that I will make with them after those days, saith the Lord, I will put my laws into their hearts, and in their minds will I writ…
- Deuteronomy 11:18
Therefore shall ye lay up these my words in your heart and in your soul, and bind them for a sign upon your hand, that they may be as frontlets betwee…
- Proverbs 6:21
Bind them continually upon thine heart, and tie them about thy neck.
- Malachi 2:6
The law of truth was in his mouth, and iniquity was not found in his lips: he walked with me in peace and equity, and did turn many away from iniquity…
- Ephesians 5:1
Be ye therefore followers of God, as dear children;
- Ephesians 5:9
(For the fruit of the Spirit is in all goodness and righteousness and truth;)
- Proverbs 16:6
By mercy and truth iniquity is purged: and by the fear of the LORD men depart from evil.
- Proverbs 1:9
For they shall be an ornament of grace unto thy head, and chains about thy neck.
- Exodus 13:9
And it shall be for a sign unto thee upon thine hand, and for a memorial between thine eyes, that the LORD’s law may be in thy mouth: for with a stron…
- Psalms 119:11
Thy word have I hid in mine heart, that I might not sin against thee.
More to meet God in Proverbs
How it points to Christ
Every Scripture ultimately leads to Jesus. See how the whole Bible points to Him in Christ in all Scripture, then meet Him for yourself.