Proverbs 4:1
Hear, you⌃ children, the instruction of a father, and attend to know understanding.
LXX2012 (US English)
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 you⌃ not my law.
Cross References
Psalms 34:11Unjust witnesses arose, and asked me of things I new not. 1
Proverbs 1:8Hear, my son, the instruction of your father, and reject not the rules of your mother.
Proverbs 2:3For if you shall call to wisdom, and utter your voice for understanding;
Proverbs 6:20My son, keep the laws of your father, and reject not the ordinances of your mother:
Proverbs 8:32Now then, my son, hear me: blessed is the man who shall listen to me, and the mortal who shall keep my ways; + 8:32 Alexandrine text reads: “And blessed are they that keep my ways.”
Proverbs 19:20Hear, son, the instruction of your father, that you may be wise at your 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 →