Proverbs 4:1
Listen, sons, to a father's instruction.Pay attention and know understanding;
New Heart English 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 sound learning.Do not forsake my law.
Cross References
Psalms 34:11Come, you children, listen to me.I will teach you the fear of the Lord.MEM
Proverbs 1:8My son, listen to your father's instruction,and do not forsake your mother's teaching:
Proverbs 2:3Yes, if you call out for discernment,and lift up your voice for understanding;
Proverbs 6:20My son, keep your father's commandment,and do not forsake your mother's teaching.
Proverbs 8:32"Now therefore, my sons, listen to me,for blessed are those who keep my ways.
Proverbs 19:20Listen to counsel and receive instruction,that you may be wise in your latter end.
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 →