Verse Lens · Context pointer
Proverbs 1:9 Explained in Context
Use this verse as a doorway into the larger passage—not as an isolated saying.
Verse 9. 9For they shall be an ornament of grace unto thy head, and chains about thy neck.
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Role in This Section
This verse contributes the claim, image, or instruction “For they shall be an ornament of grace unto thy head, and chains about thy neck”.
Read It With
- Proverbs 1:8–19
Read Proverbs 1:9 with 1:8–19. Read alone, “For they shall be an ornament of grace unto thy head, and…” could turn a compressed observation, warning, comparison, or command into a guarantee or complete policy. The full unit establishes: contributes the claim, image, or instruction “My son, hear the instruction of thy father, and forsake not the law of thy mother”; by 1:19, it uses two-part parallelism to place “So are the ways of every one that is greedy of gain” beside “which taketh away the life of the owners thereof”. Together the unit concentrates on violence, predation, conflict, and protection, family teaching, responsibility, and mutual care, instruction, correction, and formation within “Purpose, parental discourses, and the rival invitations of Wisdom and Folly.”
Why It Needs Context
Read this role inside the complete unit: the verse contributes the claim, image, or instruction “For they shall be an ornament of grace unto thy head, and chains about thy neck”. It does not carry a responsible standalone mandate apart from Proverbs 1:8–19.
Continue in Context
The full thought-unit study remains the final contextual authority for this Verse Lens.
Read Proverbs 1:8–19 — Do not join the violent ambushSources used for this context pointer
How certain is this explanation? probable
These are the sources used directly for this lens. Language, grammar, disagreements, and the complete source shelf remain attached to the full thought-unit research record.
Biblical text
King James (Authorized) Version — eng-kjv2006
eBible.org and CrossWire Bible Society
USFM archive eng-kjv2006_usfm.zip; source files dated 2026-08-19; downloaded 2026-08-24; archive SHA-256 aec1b3b26c622fd3d963d2bbac963016b9513246ffbfa20da00bb100372ea007; normalized corpus SHA-256 09aef51d90488aa7b9722b3fd9a93f4b25f6bf2064c5fd798fb39673c300ddf2.
Supports: Exact displayed KJV words, canonical order, paragraph flags, supplied-word markup, and complete unit coverage.
Exact location: Proverbs 1:8–19, repository-pinned eng-kjv2006 USFM-derived corpus
Open source ↗hebrew text and morphology
Open Scriptures Hebrew Bible: Proverbs
Open Scriptures
Open Scriptures, release 2.2
Supports: Masoretic Hebrew wording and morphology used only for the exact unit's lexical, grammatical, parallel, superscription, number-saying, and acrostic questions.
Exact location: Open Scriptures MorphHB v2.2, commit 6a5db284c715c18b239422e57bb89684e6a19f00, wlc/Prov.xml, OSIS 1:8-1:19
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