Numbers 15:39

WEB

³⁹It shall be to you for a fringe,^[+] that you may see it, and remember all the LORD’s commandments, and do them; and that you don’t follow your own heart and your own eyes, after which you used to play the prostitute;

KJV

³⁹And it shall be unto you for a fringe, that ye may look upon it, and remember all the commandments of the LORD, and do them; and that ye seek not after your own heart and your own eyes, after which ye use to go a whoring:

BSB

³⁹These will serve as tassels for you to look at, so that you may remember all the commandments of the LORD, that you may obey them and not prostitute yourselves by following your own heart and your own eyes.

FBV

³⁹When you look at these tassels you will be reminded to keep all the commandments of the Lord and not be unfaithful, following your own thoughts and desires.

Extra References

Psalms 73:27

²⁷For, behold, those who are far from you shall perish. You have destroyed all those who are unfaithful to you.

Psalms 106:39

³⁹Thus they were defiled with their works, and prostituted themselves in their deeds.

Proverbs 28:26

²⁶One who trusts in himself is a fool; but one who walks in wisdom is kept safe.

Ezekiel 6:9

⁹Those of you that escape will remember me among the nations where they are carried captive, how I have been broken with their lewd heart, which has departed from me, and with their eyes, which play the prostitute after their idols. Then they will loathe themselves in their own sight for the evils which they have committed in all their abominations.

Proverbs 3:1

¹My son, don’t forget my teaching, but let your heart keep my commandments,

Exodus 13:9

⁹It shall be for a sign to you on your hand, and for a memorial between your eyes, that the LORD’s law may be in your mouth; for with a strong hand the LORD has brought you out of Egypt.

Job 31:7

⁷if my step has turned out of the way, if my heart walked after my eyes, if any defilement has stuck to my hands,

James 4:4

⁴You adulterers and adulteresses, don’t you know that friendship with the world is hostility toward God? Whoever therefore wants to be a friend of the world makes himself an enemy of God.

Ecclesiastes 11:9

⁹Rejoice, young man, in your youth, and let your heart cheer you in the days of your youth, and walk in the ways of your heart, and in the sight of your eyes; but know that for all these things God will bring you into judgment.

Deuteronomy 29:19

¹⁹and it happen, when he hears the words of this curse, that he bless himself in his heart, saying, “I shall have peace, though I walk in the stubbornness of my heart,” to destroy the moist with the dry.