Proverbs 4:1
My children, listen to what I am teaching you. If you pay attention, you will understand what is wise.
Translation for Translators
In The King James Version
Hear, ye children, the instruction of a father, and attend to know understanding.
In Context
2What I am teaching you is good, so do not turn away from it.
Cross References
Psalms 34:11You ◄who are my students/whom I teach►, come and listen to me, and I will teach you how to revere Yahweh.
Proverbs 1:8My son, pay attention to what I, your father, am teaching you. And do not reject what your mother teaches you.
Proverbs 2:3Call out to God to get insight; plead with him to help you to understand more of what he wants you to know.
Proverbs 6:20My son, obey my commands, and do not ignore what your mother has taught you.
Proverbs 8:32So, you people who are like my sons, listen to me. I am pleased with all those who obey my teachings.
Proverbs 19:20Pay attention when people give you good advice and learn from them, in order that you will become wise for the rest of your life.
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 →