Proverbs 4:1
Listen, sons, to a father's instruction; pay attention and discover what makes sense,
Free Bible Version
In The King James Version
Hear, ye children, the instruction of a father, and attend to know understanding.
In Context
2for what I am passing on to you is reliable. Don't reject my teachings.
Cross References
Psalms 34:11Children, listen to me! I will teach you how to respect the Lord.
Proverbs 1:8My son, pay attention to your father's instruction, and don't reject your mother's teaching.
Proverbs 2:3if you cry out for insight and call loudly for help in understanding;
Proverbs 6:20My son, pay attention to your father's instruction, and don't reject your mother's teaching.
Proverbs 8:32And now, my sons, listen to me, for happy are those who follow my ways.
Proverbs 19:20Listen to advice and accept instruction so that you'll eventually become wise.
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 →