Proverbs 4:1
Hear, ye children, the instruction of a father, And attend, that ye may learn understanding!
Noyes 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 good instruction; Forsake ye not my commandments.
Cross References
Psalms 34:11Come, ye children, hearken to me! I will teach you the fear of the LORD.
Proverbs 1:8Hear, O my son! the instruction of thy father, And neglect not the teaching of thy mother!
Proverbs 2:3For if thou wilt call aloud to knowledge, And lift up thy voice to understanding,—
Proverbs 6:20Keep, O my son! the commandment of thy father, And forsake not the precepts of thy mother!
Proverbs 8:32“Now, therefore, ye children, hearken to me! For happy are they who keep my ways!
Proverbs 19:20Listen to counsel and receive instruction, That thou mayst be wise in thy latter years.
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 →