Proverbs 4:2
For good learning I have given to you, My law forsake not.
Young's Literal Translation
In The King James Version
For I give you good doctrine, forsake ye not my law.
In Context
1Hear, ye sons, the instruction of a father, And give attention to know understanding.
3For, a son I have been to my father — tender, And an only one before my mother.
Cross References
Deuteronomy 32:2Drop as rain doth My doctrine; Flow as dew doth My sayings; As storms on the tender grass, And as showers on the herb,
2 Chronicles 7:19and if ye turn back — ye — and have forsaken My statutes, and My commands, that I have placed before you, and have gone and served other gods, and bowed yourselves to them — then I have plucked them from off My ground that I have given to them,
Job 33:3Of the uprightness of my heart [are] my sayings, And knowledge have my lips clearly spoken.
Psalms 89:30If his sons forsake My law, And in My judgments do not walk;
Proverbs 8:8In righteousness [are] all the sayings of my mouth, Nothing in them is froward and perverse.
John 7:16Jesus answered them and said, 'My teaching is not mine, but His who sent me;
Matthew Henry on Proverbs 4:2-14
Parental Instructions. 1 Hear, ye children, the instruction of a father, and attend to know understanding. 2 For I give you good doctrine, forsake ye not my law. 3 For I was my father's son, tender and only beloved in the sight of my mother. 4 He taught me also, and said unto me, Let thine heart retain my words: keep my commandments, and live. 5 Get wisdom, get understanding: forget it not; neither decline from the words of my mouth. 6 Forsake her not, and she shall preserve thee: love her, and she shall keep… Read the whole commentary →