Proverbs 4:2
For I have given to you good learning, do not forsake my law.
Literal Standard Version
In The King James Version
For I give you good doctrine, forsake ye not my law.
In Context
1Hear, you sons, the instruction of a father, || And give attention to know understanding.
3For I have been a son to my father—tender, || And an only one before my mother.
Cross References
Deuteronomy 32:2My doctrine drops as rain; My sayings flow as dew; As storms on the tender grass, || And as showers on the herb,
2 Chronicles 7:19and if you turn back—you—and have forsaken My statutes and My commands that I have placed before you, and have gone and served other gods, and bowed yourselves to them—then I have plucked them from off My ground that I have given to them,
Job 33:3Of the uprightness of my heart [are] my sayings, || And my lips have clearly spoken knowledge.
Psalms 89:30If his sons forsake My law, || And do not walk in My judgments;
Proverbs 8:8All the sayings of my mouth [are] in righteousness, || Nothing in them is contrary and perverse.
John 7:16Jesus answered them and said, “My teaching is not Mine, but His who sent Me;
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 →