Proverbs 3:1-4

Proverbs 3:1-4. My son, forget not my law My doctrine or counsel; but let thy heart keep, &c. By diligent meditation and hearty affection. For length of days, &c. God will add these blessings which he hath promised to the obedient, Deuteronomy 8:18; Deuteronomy 30:20; 1 Timothy 4:8. Let not mercy and truth forsake thee That mercy and truth, which are man’s duty. Mercy denotes all benignity, charity, and readiness to do good to others; truth, or faithfulness, respects all those duties which we owe to God or man, on the principles of justice, and to which we are laid under special obligations by the rules of it. Bind them about thy neck Like a chain, wherewith persons were wont to adorn their necks. Write them upon the table, &c. In thy mind and heart, in which all God’s commands are to be received and engraven. So shalt thou find favour That is, obtain acceptance, and good understanding Whereby to know thy duty, and to discern between good and evil; in the sight of God and man Grace or favour with God, and that understanding which is good in his sight, that is, which is really and truly good, and which will be acknowledged as such by all truly wise and good men.