Proverbs 4:1
Hear, ye sons, the instruction of a father, And give attention to know understanding.
Young's Literal Translation
In The King James Version
Hear, ye children, the instruction of a father, and attend to know understanding.
In Context
2For good learning I have given to you, My law forsake not.
Cross References
Psalms 34:11Come ye, children, hearken to me, The fear of Jehovah I do teach you.
Proverbs 1:8Hear, my son, the instruction of thy father, And leave not the law of thy mother,
Proverbs 2:3For, if for intelligence thou callest, For understanding givest forth thy voice,
Proverbs 6:20Keep, my son, the command of thy father, And leave not the law of thy mother.
Proverbs 8:32And now, ye sons, hearken to me, Yea, happy are they who keep my ways.
Proverbs 19:20Hear counsel and receive instruction, So that thou art wise in thy 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 →