Proverbs 4:1
Hear, ye children, the instruction of a father, and attend to know intelligence;
Darby Translation
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 doctrine: forsake ye not my law.
Cross References
Psalms 34:11Come, ye sons, hearken unto me: I will teach you the fear of Jehovah.
Proverbs 1:8Hear, my son, the instruction of thy father, and forsake not the teaching of thy mother;
Proverbs 2:3yea, if thou criest after discernment [and] liftest up thy voice to understanding;
Proverbs 6:20My son, observe thy father's commandment, and forsake not the teaching of thy mother;
Proverbs 8:32And now, sons, hearken unto me, and blessed are they that keep my ways:
Proverbs 19:20Hear counsel, and receive instruction, that thou mayest be wise in thy latter end.
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 →