Proverbs 4:1
Hear, ye sons, the correction of a father, and attend, that ye may know understanding.
The Emphasised Bible by J. B. Rotherham
In The King James Version
Hear, ye children, the instruction of a father, and attend to know understanding.
In Context
2For, good teaching, have I given you, mine instruction, do not ye forsake.
Cross References
Psalms 34:11Come, ye children! hearken unto me, The reverence of Yahweh, will I teach you.
Proverbs 1:8Hear, my son, the correction of thy father, and do not reject the instruction of thy mother;
Proverbs 2:3Yea if, for understanding, thou cry aloud, for knowledge, utter thy voice;
Proverbs 6:20Observe thou, my son, the commandment of thy father, and do not decline from the instruction of thy mother:
Proverbs 8:32Now, therefore, ye sons, hearken to me, for how happy are they who, to my ways, pay regard!
Proverbs 19:20Hear counsel, receive correction, that thou mayest be wise in thine after-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 →