◄ Proverbs 4:1 {2} ►
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Good News Translation
My children, listen to what your father teaches you. Pay attention, and you will have understanding.

New Revised Standard Version
Listen, children, to a father’s instruction, and be attentive, that you may gain insight;

Contemporary English Version
My child, listen closely to my teachings and learn common sense.

New American Bible
Hear, O children, a father’s instruction, be attentive, that you may gain understanding!

Douay-Rheims Bible
I will give you a good gift, forsake not my law.

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I will give you a good gift, forsake not my law.

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Proverbs 2:1-5 That thy ear may hearken to wisdom: incline thy heart to know prudence. . . .

Proverbs 5:1 That thou mayst keep thoughts, and thy lips may preserve instruction. Mind not the deceit of a woman.

Proverbs 7:4 That she may keep thee from the woman that is not thine, and from the stranger who sweeteneth her words.

Proverbs 8:32-36 Hear instruction, and be wise, and refuse it not. . . .

Proverbs 19:20 Hear counsel, and receive instruction, that thou mayst be wise in thy latter end.

Proverbs 22:17 Incline thy ear, and hear the words of the wise: and apply thy heart to my doctrine:

Hebrews 2:1 Therefore ought we more diligently to observe the things which we have heard lest perhaps we should let them slip.

Context
A Father's Instruction
1I will give you a good gift, forsake not my law.2For I also was my father's son, tender, and as an only son in the sight of my mother:…
Cross References
Psalm 34:11
Come, children, hearken to me: I will teach you the fear of the Lord.

Proverbs 1:2
To understand the words of prudence: and to receive the instruction of doctrine, justice, and judgment, and equity:

Proverbs 1:8
That grace may be added to thy head, and a chain of gold to thy neck.

Proverbs 2:2
For if thou shalt call for wisdom, and incline thy heart to prudence:

Proverbs 8:33
Blessed is the man that heareth me, and that watcheth daily at my gates, and waiteth at the posts of my doors.

Proverbs 19:20
Hear counsel, and receive instruction, that thou mayst be wise in thy latter end.

Jeremiah 35:8
Therefore we have obeyed the voice of Jonadab the son of Rechab, our father, in all things that he commanded us: so as to drink no wine all our days: neither we, nor our wives, nor our sons, nor our daughters:

Proverbs 3:35
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