Proverbs 4:2
For good information do I give you: my teaching must ye not forsake.
Leeser Tanakh
In The King James Version
For I give you good doctrine, forsake ye not my law.
In Context
1Hear, ye children, the correction of a father, and attend to know understanding.
3For I was a son unto my father, a tender and an only child before my mother.
Cross References
Deuteronomy 32:2My doctrine shall drop as the rain, my speech shall distil as the dew, as heavy rains upon the grass, and as showers upon herbs.
2 Chronicles 7:19But if ye will indeed turn away, and forsake my statutes and my commandments, which I have set before you, and will go and serve other gods, and bow down to them:
Job 33:3Out of my straightforward heart [come] my sayings, and my lips utter knowledge clearly.
Psalms 89:30(89:31) If his children forsake my law, and walk not in my ordinances;
Proverbs 8:8In righteousness are all the sayings of my mouth, there is in them nothing crooked or perverse.
Matthew Henry on Proverbs 4:2-14
Parental Instructions. 1 Hear, ye children, the instruction of a father, and attend to know understanding. 2 For I give you good doctrine, forsake ye not my law. 3 For I was my father's son, tender and only beloved in the sight of my mother. 4 He taught me also, and said unto me, Let thine heart retain my words: keep my commandments, and live. 5 Get wisdom, get understanding: forget it not; neither decline from the words of my mouth. 6 Forsake her not, and she shall preserve thee: love her, and she shall keep… Read the whole commentary →