Proverbs 4:1
Hear, ye children, the instruction of a father, and attend to know understanding.
King James Version
In Context
2For I give you good doctrine, forsake ye not my law.
Cross References
Psalms 34:11Come, ye children, hearken unto me: I will teach you the fear of the LORD.
Proverbs 1:8My son, hear the instruction of thy father, and forsake not the law of thy mother:
Proverbs 2:3Yea, if thou criest after knowledge, and liftest up thy voice for understanding;
Proverbs 6:20My son, keep thy father’s commandment, and forsake not the law of thy mother:
Proverbs 8:32Now therefore hearken unto me, O ye children: for blessed are they that keep my ways.
Proverbs 19:20Hear counsel, and receive instruction, that thou mayest be 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 →