Proverbs 4:1
Heare, O ye children, the instruction of a father, and giue eare to learne vnderstanding.
Geneva Bible 1599
In The King James Version
Hear, ye children, the instruction of a father, and attend to know understanding.
In Context
2For I doe giue you a good doctrine: therefore forsake yee not my lawe.
Cross References
Psalms 34:11Come children, hearken vnto me: I will teache you the feare of the Lord.
Proverbs 1:8My sonne, heare thy fathers instruction, and forsake not thy mothers teaching.
Proverbs 2:3(For if thou callest after knowledge, and cryest for vnderstanding:
Proverbs 6:20My sonne, keepe thy fathers commandement, and forsake not thy mothers instruction.
Proverbs 8:32Therefore nowe hearken, O children, vnto me: for blessed are they that keepe my wayes.
Proverbs 19:20Heare counsell and receiue instruction, that thou mayest be wise in thy latter ende.
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 →