Proverbs 4:10

Bible in Basic English (1941)

Give ear, O my son, and let your heart be open to my sayings; and long life will be yours.

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Referenced Verses

  • Prov 3:2 : 2 For they will give you increase of days, years of life, and peace.
  • Prov 3:16 : 16 Long life is in her right hand, and in her left are wealth and honour.
  • Prov 8:10 : 10 Take my teaching, and not silver; get knowledge in place of the best gold.
  • Prov 19:20 : 20 Let your ear be open to suggestion and take teaching, so that at the end you may be wise.
  • Jer 9:20 : 20 But even now, give ear to the word of the Lord, O you women; let your ears be open to the word of his mouth, training your daughters to give cries of sorrow, everyone teaching her neighbour a song of grief.
  • John 3:32-33 : 32 He gives witness of what he has seen and of what has come to his ears; and no man takes his witness as true. 33 He who so takes his witness has made clear his faith that God is true.
  • 1 Thess 2:13 : 13 And for this cause we still give praise to God, that, when the word came to your ears through us, you took it, not as the word of man, but, as it truly is, the word of God, which has living power in you who have faith.
  • 1 Tim 1:15 : 15 It is a true saying, in which all may put their faith, that Christ Jesus came into the world to give salvation to sinners, of whom I am the chief:
  • Deut 5:16 : 16 Give honour to your father and your mother, as you have been ordered by the Lord your God; so that your life may be long and all may be well for you in the land which the Lord your God is giving you.
  • Deut 6:2 : 2 So that living in the fear of the Lord your God, you may keep all his laws and his orders, which I give you: you and your son and your son's son, all the days of your life; and so that your life may be long.
  • Job 22:22 : 22 Be pleased to take teaching from his mouth, and let his words be stored up in your heart.
  • Prov 2:1 : 1 My son, if you will take my words to your heart, storing up my laws in your mind;

Similar Verses (AI)

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  • Prov 4:20-21
    2 verses
    82%

    20 My son, give attention to my words; let your ear be turned to my sayings.

    21 Let them not go from your eyes; keep them deep in your heart.

  • Prov 2:1-2
    2 verses
    80%

    1 My son, if you will take my words to your heart, storing up my laws in your mind;

    2 So that your ear gives attention to wisdom, and your heart is turned to knowledge;

  • Prov 5:1-2
    2 verses
    80%

    1 My son, give attention to my wisdom; let your ear be turned to my teaching:

    2 So that you may be ruled by a wise purpose, and your lips may keep knowledge.

  • Prov 3:1-2
    2 verses
    80%

    1 My son, keep my teaching in your memory, and my rules in your heart:

    2 For they will give you increase of days, years of life, and peace.

  • Prov 4:4-9
    6 verses
    79%

    4 And he gave me teaching, saying to me, Keep my words in your heart; keep my rules so that you may have life:

    5 Get wisdom, get true knowledge; keep it in memory, do not be turned away from the words of my mouth.

    6 Do not give her up, and she will keep you; give her your love, and she will make you safe.

    7 The first sign of wisdom is to get wisdom; go, give all you have to get true knowledge.

    8 Put her in a high place, and you will be lifted up by her; she will give you honour, when you give her your love.

    9 She will put a crown of grace on your head, giving you a head-dress of glory.

  • Prov 4:1-2
    2 verses
    78%

    1 Give ear, my sons, to the teaching of a father; give attention so that you may have knowledge:

    2 For I give you good teaching; do not give up the knowledge you are getting from me.

  • Prov 9:11
    78%

    11 For by me your days will be increased, and the years of your life will be long.

  • Prov 1:8-9
    2 verses
    77%

    8 My son, give ear to the training of your father, and do not give up the teaching of your mother:

    9 For they will be a crown of grace for your head, and chain-ornaments about your neck.

  • Prov 4:11
    77%

    11 I have given you teaching in the way of wisdom, guiding your steps in the straight way.

  • Prov 7:1
    76%

    1 My son, keep my sayings, and let my rules be stored up with you.

  • Prov 8:32-33
    2 verses
    76%

    32 Give ear to me then, my sons: for happy are those who keep my ways.

    33 Take my teaching and be wise; do not let it go.

  • Prov 23:26
    76%

    26 My son, give me your heart, and let your eyes take delight in my ways.

  • Prov 5:7
    76%

    7 Give ear to me then, my sons, and do not put away my words from you.

  • Prov 23:19
    76%

    19 Give ear, my son, and be wise, guiding your heart in the right way.

  • Prov 7:24
    75%

    24 So now, my sons, give ear to me; give attention to the sayings of my mouth;

  • Prov 1:5
    74%

    5 (The wise man, hearing, will get greater learning, and the acts of the man of good sense will be wisely guided:)

  • Prov 27:11
    74%

    11 My son, be wise and make my heart glad, so that I may give back an answer to him who puts me to shame.

  • Prov 22:17
    74%

    17 Let your ear be bent down for hearing my words, and let your heart give thought to knowledge.

  • Prov 19:20
    74%

    20 Let your ear be open to suggestion and take teaching, so that at the end you may be wise.

  • Prov 4:13
    73%

    13 Take learning in your hands, do not let her go: keep her, for she is your life.

  • Prov 8:10
    73%

    10 Take my teaching, and not silver; get knowledge in place of the best gold.

  • Prov 23:15
    73%

    15 My son, if your heart becomes wise, I, even I, will be glad in heart;

  • Prov 3:16-17
    2 verses
    73%

    16 Long life is in her right hand, and in her left are wealth and honour.

    17 Her ways are ways of delight, and all her goings are peace.

  • Prov 3:21-22
    2 verses
    72%

    21 My son, keep good sense, and do not let wise purpose go from your eyes.

    22 So they will be life for your soul, and grace for your neck.

  • Prov 23:12
    72%

    12 Give your heart to teaching, and your ears to the words of knowledge.

  • Prov 10:1
    72%

    1 A wise son makes a glad father, but a foolish son is a sorrow to his mother.

  • Prov 6:20
    72%

    20 My son, keep the rule of your father, and have in memory the teaching of your mother:

  • Prov 29:17
    72%

    17 Give your son training, and he will give you rest; he will give delight to your soul.

  • Prov 15:31
    72%

    31 The man whose ear is open to the teaching of life will have his place among the wise.

  • Prov 22:6
    71%

    6 If a child is trained up in the right way, even when he is old he will not be turned away from it.

  • Prov 19:27
    71%

    27 A son who no longer gives attention to teaching is turned away from the words of knowledge.

  • Eph 6:3
    71%

    3 So that all may be well for you, and your life may be long on the earth.

  • Gen 27:8
    71%

    8 Now, my son, do what I say.

  • Prov 23:22
    71%

    22 Give ear to your father whose child you are, and do not keep honour from your mother when she is old.

  • Ps 34:12
    71%

    12 What man has a love of life, and a desire that his days may be increased so that he may see good?

  • Prov 2:10
    71%

    10 For wisdom will come into your heart, and knowledge will be pleasing to your soul;