Proverbs 4:2
I will bestow upon you a good gift. Do not relinquish my law.
Catholic Public Domain Version
In The King James Version
For I give you good doctrine, forsake ye not my law.
In Context
1Listen, sons, to the discipline of a father, and pay attention, so that you may know prudence.
3For I, too, was the son of my father, tender and an only son in the sight of my mother.
Cross References
Deuteronomy 32:2Let my doctrine accumulate like the rain. Let my eloquence form like the dew, like a mist upon the plants, and like water droplets upon the grass.
2 Chronicles 7:19But if you will have turned away, and will have forsaken my justices and my precepts, which I have set before you, and going astray, you serve strange gods, and you adore them,
Job 33:3My words are from my simple heart, and my lips will speak a pure judgment.
Proverbs 8:8All my words are just. There is no depravity in them, and no perversity.
John 7:16Jesus responded to them and said: “My doctrine is not of me, but of him who sent me.
Matthew Henry on Proverbs 4:2-14
Parental Instructions. 1 Hear, ye children, the instruction of a father, and attend to know understanding. 2 For I give you good doctrine, forsake ye not my law. 3 For I was my father's son, tender and only beloved in the sight of my mother. 4 He taught me also, and said unto me, Let thine heart retain my words: keep my commandments, and live. 5 Get wisdom, get understanding: forget it not; neither decline from the words of my mouth. 6 Forsake her not, and she shall preserve thee: love her, and she shall keep… Read the whole commentary →