Proverbs 4:1

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Listen, my sons, to the instruction of a father; pay attention so you may gain understanding.

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  • Prov 1:8 : 8 Listen, my son, to your father's instruction, and do not forsake your mother's teaching,
  • Ps 34:11 : 11 Young lions may grow weak and hungry, but those who seek the Lord lack no good thing.
  • 1 Thess 2:11-12 : 11 Just as you know how we dealt with each one of you like a father with his own children, 12 encouraging, comforting, and urging you to live lives worthy of God, who calls you into His own kingdom and glory.
  • Heb 2:1 : 1 Therefore, we must pay closer attention to what we have heard, lest we drift away.
  • Prov 2:1-5 : 1 My son, if you accept my words and treasure my commands with you, 2 making your ear attentive to wisdom and inclining your heart to understanding, 3 if you call out for insight and raise your voice for understanding, 4 if you seek it like silver and search for it as for hidden treasures, 5 then you will understand the fear of the Lord and find the knowledge of God.
  • Prov 5:1 : 1 My son, pay attention to my wisdom; listen carefully to my understanding.
  • Prov 6:20-23 : 20 My son, keep your father’s command and do not forsake your mother’s teaching. 21 Bind them always upon your heart; tie them around your neck. 22 When you walk, they will guide you; when you lie down, they will watch over you; and when you wake, they will speak to you. 23 For the commandment is a lamp, the teaching is a light, and the corrections of discipline are the way to life.
  • Prov 7:4 : 4 Say to wisdom, 'You are my sister,' and call understanding your close relative.
  • Prov 8:32-36 : 32 Now then, my children, listen to me; blessed are those who keep my ways. 33 Listen to instruction and be wise; do not neglect it. 34 Blessed is the one who listens to me, watching daily at my doors, waiting at the doorposts of my entrances. 35 For whoever finds me finds life and obtains favor from the LORD. 36 But whoever sins against me wrongs his own soul; all who hate me love death.
  • Prov 19:20 : 20 Listen to advice and accept discipline, so that you may become wise in the future.
  • Prov 22:17 : 17 Incline your ear and listen to the words of the wise; apply your heart to my knowledge.

Similar Verses (AI)

These verses are found using AI-powered semantic similarity based on meaning and context. Results may occasionally include unexpected connections.

  • Prov 1:7-8
    2 verses
    84%

    7The fear of the LORD is the beginning of knowledge; fools despise wisdom and instruction.

    8Listen, my son, to your father's instruction, and do not forsake your mother's teaching,

  • Prov 5:1
    84%

    1My son, pay attention to my wisdom; listen carefully to my understanding.

  • Prov 4:2-5
    4 verses
    83%

    2For I give you good teaching; do not abandon my instruction.

    3When I was a son to my father, tender and the only one in the eyes of my mother,

    4he taught me and said to me, 'Let your heart hold onto my words; keep my commands, and you will live.'

    5Acquire wisdom; acquire understanding. Do not forget or turn away from the words of my mouth.

  • Prov 4:20
    81%

    20My son, pay attention to my words; incline your ear to my sayings.

  • Prov 7:24
    81%

    24Now then, my sons, listen to me and pay attention to the words of my mouth.

  • Prov 5:7
    79%

    7Now, my children, listen to me, and do not turn away from the words of my mouth.

  • Prov 2:1-2
    2 verses
    79%

    1My son, if you accept my words and treasure my commands with you,

    2making your ear attentive to wisdom and inclining your heart to understanding,

  • Prov 4:10-11
    2 verses
    78%

    10Listen, my son, and accept my words, and the years of your life will be many.

    11I have taught you in the way of wisdom; I have guided you along straight paths.

  • Prov 8:32-33
    2 verses
    78%

    32Now then, my children, listen to me; blessed are those who keep my ways.

    33Listen to instruction and be wise; do not neglect it.

  • Prov 13:1
    77%

    1A wise son listens to his father's instruction, but a mocker does not heed rebuke.

  • Prov 3:1
    77%

    1My son, do not forget my teaching, but let your heart keep my commandments.

  • Ps 34:11
    76%

    11Young lions may grow weak and hungry, but those who seek the Lord lack no good thing.

  • Prov 23:12
    76%

    12Apply your heart to discipline, and your ears to the words of knowledge.

  • Eph 6:4
    76%

    4Fathers, do not provoke your children to anger, but bring them up in the training and instruction of the Lord.

  • Prov 19:27
    76%

    27Stop listening to instruction, my son, and you will stray from the words of knowledge.

  • Prov 23:19
    75%

    19Listen, my son, and be wise, and guide your heart on the right path.

  • Prov 1:2-5
    4 verses
    75%

    2To know wisdom and discipline, to understand words of insight,

    3To receive instruction in wise dealing, in righteousness, justice, and equity,

    4To give prudence to the simple, knowledge and discretion to the youth—

    5Let the wise hear and increase their learning, and the one who understands gain guidance,

  • Gen 27:8
    75%

    8Now, my son, listen to my voice and do what I command you.

  • Prov 23:26
    75%

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

  • Prov 6:20
    75%

    20My son, keep your father’s command and do not forsake your mother’s teaching.

  • Prov 7:1
    75%

    1My son, keep my words and treasure my commandments with you.

  • Jer 3:4
    74%

    4Have you not just now called to me, 'My Father, you are the friend of my youth'?

  • Job 34:16
    73%

    16If you have understanding, listen to this; pay attention to the sound of my words.

  • Prov 23:22
    73%

    22Listen to your father, who gave you life, and do not despise your mother when she is old.

  • Deut 4:10
    73%

    10Remember the day you stood before the LORD your God at Horeb, when the LORD said to me, 'Assemble the people for Me, and I will let them hear My words, so that they may learn to fear Me all the days they live on the earth, and to teach them to their children.'

  • Prov 15:5
    73%

    5A fool despises his father's discipline, but whoever heeds correction is wise.

  • Isa 1:2
    73%

    2Hear, O heavens, and give ear, O earth, for the LORD has spoken: "I have raised children and brought them up, but they have rebelled against Me.

  • Prov 22:6
    73%

    6Train a child in the way he should go, and even when he is old he will not depart from it.

  • Prov 8:5
    73%

    5Understand prudence, you simple ones; and you fools, gain a discerning heart.

  • Prov 22:17
    73%

    17Incline your ear and listen to the words of the wise; apply your heart to my knowledge.

  • Job 34:2
    72%

    2Listen to my words, you wise ones; and to those with understanding, give ear to me.

  • Prov 3:11-12
    2 verses
    72%

    11My son, do not despise the LORD's discipline, and do not be weary of His reproof.

    12For the LORD disciplines the one He loves, as a father the son in whom he delights.

  • Prov 23:24
    72%

    24The father of a righteous child will greatly rejoice; a man who fathers a wise son will delight in him.

  • Ps 78:1
    72%

    1A teaching of Asaph. Listen, my people, to my instruction; incline your ears to the words of my mouth.

  • Eph 6:1
    72%

    1Children, obey your parents in the Lord, for this is the right thing to do.

  • Prov 4:7
    72%

    7Wisdom is supreme—acquire wisdom. Though it costs you all you have, gain understanding.

  • Heb 12:5
    72%

    5And you have forgotten the exhortation that addresses you as sons: "My son, do not take lightly the Lord’s discipline, and do not lose heart when you are reproved by Him."

  • Prov 29:17
    72%

    17Discipline your son, and he will bring you peace; he will give delight to your soul.