Proverbs 5:1
My sonne, hearken vnto my wisedome, and incline thine eare vnto my knowledge.
Geneva Bible 1599
In The King James Version
My son, attend unto my wisdom, and bow thine ear to my understanding:
In Context
2That thou maiest regarde counsell, and thy lippes obserue knowledge.
Cross References
Proverbs 4:1Heare, O ye children, the instruction of a father, and giue eare to learne vnderstanding.
Proverbs 6:20My sonne, keepe thy fathers commandement, and forsake not thy mothers instruction.
Proverbs 22:17Incline thine eare, and heare the wordes of the wise, and apply thine heart vnto my knowledge.
Mark 4:23If any man haue eares to heare, let him heare.
Revelation 2:7Let him that hath an eare, heare, what the Spirite saith vnto the Churches, To him that ouercommeth, will I giue to eate of the tree of life which is in the middes of the Paradise of God.
Revelation 2:17Let him that hath an eare, heare what the Spirite saith vnto the Churches. To him that ouercommeth, will I giue to eate of the Manna that is hid, and will giue him a white stone, and in the stone a newe name written, which no man knoweth sauing he that receiueth it.
Matthew Henry on Proverbs 5:1
The scope of this chapter is much the same with that of ch. ii . To write the same things, in other words, ought not to be grievous, for it is safe, Phil. iii. 1 . Here is, I. An exhortation to get acquaintance with and submit to the laws of wisdom in general, ver. 2 . II. A particular caution against the sin of whoredom, ver. 3-14 . III. Remedies prescribed against that sin. 1. Conjugal love, ver. 15-20 . 2. A regard to God's omniscience, ver. 21 . 3. A dread of the miserable end of wicked people, ver. 22, 23 .… Read the whole commentary →