Proverbs 4:1
Heare O ye chyldren a fatherly instruction, & take good heede, that ye may learne grandstanding.
Bible (Bishops')
In The King James Version
Hear, ye children, the instruction of a father, and attend to know understanding.
In Context
2For I haue geuen you a good doctrine, forsake not ye my lawe.
Cross References
Proverbs 1:8My sonne, heare thy fathers instruction, and forsake not thy mothers teaching.
Proverbs 2:3For if thou cryest after wisdome, and cryest for knowledge:
Proverbs 6:20My sonne, kepe thy fathers commaundement, and forsake not the lawe of thy mother:
Proverbs 8:32Therefore hearken vnto me: O ye chyldren, blessed are they that kepe my wayes.
Proverbs 19:20O geue eare vnto good counsayle, and be content to be refourmed, that thou mayest be wyse in the latter dayes.
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 →