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Proverbs 4:2

I am giving you good instructions; 1 do not forsake my teaching. 1

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In The King James Version

For I give you good doctrine, forsake ye not my law.

In Context

1Listen, sons, to a father's instruction, 1 and pay attention so you will know what understanding is. 1

3When I was a son of my father, 1 the tender and only child of my mother, 1

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Cross References

Deuteronomy 32:2Let my teaching drop down like the rain, 1 let my speech distill like the dew, 1 like the gentle rain on the tender grass, 1 and like the showers on the plants. 1

2 Chronicles 7:19But if you turn away, and forsake my statutes and my commandments that I have placed before you, and if you go worship other gods and bow down to them,

Job 33:3My words come from the uprightness of my heart; 1 my lips speak pure knowledge. 1

Psalms 89:30If his children forsake my law 1 and do not walk in my regulations, 1

Proverbs 8:8All the words of my mouth are just; 1 in them is nothing twisted or misleading. 1

John 7:16Jesus answered them and said, “My teaching is not mine, but is of him 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 →

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