Proverbs 4:1
Hear, ye children, the instruction of a father, and attend to know understanding.
Brenton Septuagint
In The King James Version
Hear, ye children, the instruction of a father, and attend to know understanding.
In Context
2For I give you a good gift; forsake ye not my law.
Cross References
Psalms 34:11Unjust witnesses arose, and asked me of things I knew not.
Proverbs 1:8Hear, my son, the instruction of thy father, and reject not the rules of thy mother.
Proverbs 2:3For if thou shalt call to wisdom, and utter thy voice for understanding;
Proverbs 6:20My son, keep the laws of thy father, and reject not the ordinances of thy mother:
Proverbs 8:32Now then, my son, hear me: blessed is the man who shall hearken to me, and the mortal who shall keep my ways; + 8:32 appendix has Alexandrine text as: “And blessed are they that keep my ways.”
Proverbs 19:20Hear, son, the instruction of thy father, that thou mayest be wise at 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 →