Proverbs 4:1
Give ear, my sons, to the teaching of a father; give attention so that you may have knowledge:
Bible in Basic English
In The King James Version
Hear, ye children, the instruction of a father, and attend to know understanding.
In Context
2For I give you good teaching; do not give up the knowledge you are getting from me.
Cross References
Psalms 34:11\34:10\The young lions are in need and have no food; but those who are looking to the Lord will have every good thing.
Proverbs 1:8My son, give ear to the training of your father, and do not give up the teaching of your mother:
Proverbs 2:3Truly, if you are crying out for good sense, and your request is for knowledge;
Proverbs 6:20My son, keep the rule of your father, and have in memory the teaching of your mother:
Proverbs 8:32Give ear to me then, my sons: for happy are those who keep my ways.
Proverbs 19:20Let your ear be open to suggestion and take teaching, so that at the end you may be wise.
Matthew Henry on Proverbs 4:1
When the things of God are to be taught precept must be upon precept, and line upon line, not only because the things themselves are of great worth and weight, but because men's minds, at the best, are unapt to admit them and commonly prejudiced against them; and therefore Solomon, in this chapter, with a great variety of expression and a pleasant powerful flood of divine eloquence, inculcates the same things that he had pressed upon us in the foregoing chapters. Here is, I. An earnest exhortation to the study of… Read the whole commentary →