Tree of Life Version
Proverbs 4:2
2For I give you sound learning— do not forsake my instruction.
Proverbs 4:2 in other versions
- King James Version (KJV)For I give you good doctrine, forsake ye not my law.
- New International Version (NIV)I give you sound learning, so do not forsake my teaching.
- English Standard Version (ESV)for I give you good precepts; do not forsake my teaching.
- New King James Version (NKJV)For I give you good doctrine: Do not forsake my law.
Context of Proverbs 4:2
1Listen, my sons, to a father’s instruction. Pay attention, to gain understanding. For I give you sound learning— do not forsake my instruction. 3When I was a son to my father, tender and special to my mother, 4he taught me and said to me: “Lay hold of my words in your heart, keep my commands and you will live!
Read all of Proverbs 4Proverbs 4:2 word by word
כִּ֤י לֶ֣קַח ט֭וֹב נָתַ֣תִּי לָכֶ֑ם תּֽ֝וֹרָתִ֗י אַֽל־תַּעֲזֹֽבוּ׃Read the interlinear
Words taken from the KJV.
Cross-references for Proverbs 4:2
- Proverbs 8:6Listen, for I speak excellent things, and my lips utter right things.
- Proverbs 22:20Have I not written to you thirty sayings of admonition and knowledge,
- Deuteronomy 32:2May my teaching trickle like rain, my speech distill like dew— like gentle rain on new grass, like showers on tender plants.
- Job 33:3My words are from my upright heart; my lips speak sincerely what they know.
- Psalms 49:1For the music director: a psalm of the sons of Korah.
- John 7:16Yeshua answered, “My teaching is not from Me, but from Him who sent Me.
- 1 Timothy 4:6In pointing out these things to the brothers and sisters, you will be a good servant of Messiah Yeshua, nourished in the words of the faith and the sound teaching that you have been following.
- 1 Chronicles 28:9“Now you, Solomon my son, know the God of your father and serve Him with a whole heart and with a willing mind; for Adonai searches all hearts and understands every intent of the thoughts. If you seek Him, He will be found by you. But if you forsake Him, He will reject you forever.
- 2 Chronicles 7:19But if you turn away and forsake My decrees and My mitzvot that I have set before you, and go and serve other gods and worship them,
- Psalms 89:30His seed I will establish forever, and his throne as the days of heaven.
Commentaries on Proverbs 4:2
- Barnes’ Notes on the Bible · v. 2Doctrine - Knowledge orally given and received.Read the comment
- Tyndale Open Study Notes · v. 2Wise people handle life's challenges well because they follow good advice.Read the comment
- Jamieson–Fausset–Brown Commentary · v. 1-271-2. (Compare Pr 1:8). to know--in order to know. doctrine--the matter of learning (Pr 1:5), such as he had received (La 3:1).Read the comment
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Commentaries on Proverbs 4
- Adam Clarke Bible Commentary
- Barnes’ Notes on the Bible
- Matthew Henry Concise Commentary
- Tyndale Open Study Notes
- Jamieson–Fausset–Brown Commentary
- Rashi on Tanakh
- Keil & Delitzsch Commentary
- John Wesley’s Notes
- Darby Translation Notes
- Geneva Bible Translation Notes
- Kingcomments
- Matthew Henry’s Complete Commentary
- Matthew Henry’s Modern English Commentary
- Seventh-day Adventist Bible Commentary
- EGW Writings
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