Proverbs 4:1
Listen, my sons, to a father’s instruction; pay attention and gain understanding.
Berean Standard Bible
In The King James Version
Hear, ye children, the instruction of a father, and attend to know understanding.
In Context
2For I give you sound teaching; do not abandon my directive.
Cross References
Psalms 34:11Come, children, listen to me; I will teach you the fear of the LORD.
Proverbs 1:8Listen, my son, to your father’s instruction, and do not forsake the teaching of your mother.
Proverbs 2:3if you truly call out to insight and lift your voice to understanding,
Proverbs 6:20My son, keep your father’s commandment, and do not forsake your mother’s teaching.
Proverbs 8:32Now therefore, my sons, listen to me, for blessed are those who keep my ways.
Proverbs 19:20Listen to counsel and accept discipline, that you may be wise the rest of your 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 →