Proverbs 4:1
Listen, sons, to the discipline of a father, and pay attention, so that you may know prudence.
Catholic Public Domain Version
In The King James Version
Hear, ye children, the instruction of a father, and attend to know understanding.
In Context
2I will bestow upon you a good gift. Do not relinquish my law.
Cross References
Psalms 34:11Unfair witnesses have risen up, interrogating me about things of which I am ignorant.
Proverbs 1:8Listen, my son, to the discipline of your father, and forsake not the law of your mother,
Proverbs 2:3For if you would call upon wisdom and bend your heart to prudence,
Proverbs 6:20My son, preserve the precepts of your father, and do not dismiss the law of your mother.
Proverbs 8:32Therefore, sons, hear me now. Blessed are those who preserve my ways.
Proverbs 19:20Listen to counsel and take up discipline, so that you may be wise in your latter days.
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 →