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%

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

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

  • Prov 2:1-2
    2 verses
    80%

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

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

  • Prov 5:1-2
    2 verses
    80%

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

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

  • Prov 3:1-2
    2 verses
    80%

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

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

  • Prov 4:4-9
    6 verses
    79%

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

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

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

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

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

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

  • Prov 4:1-2
    2 verses
    78%

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

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

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

  • Prov 1:8-9
    2 verses
    77%

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

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

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

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

  • Prov 8:32-33
    2 verses
    76%

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

  • Prov 3:16-17
    2 verses
    73%

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

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

  • Prov 3:21-22
    2 verses
    72%

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

  • 8Now, my son, do what I say.

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

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

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