Proverbs 4:2

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

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  • Deut 32:2 : 2 May my teaching fall like rain, my speech settle like dew, like gentle rain on grass and abundant showers on plants.
  • Ps 89:30-32 : 30 I will establish his offspring forever and his throne as the days of the heavens. 31 If his sons forsake my law and do not walk according to my judgments, 32 if they profane my statutes and do not keep my commandments,
  • Prov 8:6-9 : 6 Listen, for I speak noble things, and what comes from my lips is right. 7 For my mouth speaks truth, and wickedness is detestable to my lips. 8 All the words of my mouth are righteous; none of them are twisted or perverse. 9 They are all plain to those who understand, and right to those who find knowledge.
  • Job 33:3 : 3 My words come from an upright heart, and my lips speak with clarity.
  • Ps 49:1-3 : 1 For the director, a psalm of the sons of Korah. 2 Listen to this, all you peoples; give ear, all who dwell on the earth, 3 both low and high, rich and poor alike.
  • Prov 22:20-21 : 20 Have I not written for you thirty sayings of counsel and knowledge? 21 To make you know the certainty of true words, so that you can give truthful answers to those who send you?
  • John 7:16-17 : 16 Jesus answered them, 'My teaching is not Mine, but comes from the One who sent Me. 17 'If anyone wants to do His will, they will know whether My teaching comes from God or whether I speak on My own authority.'
  • 1 Tim 4:6 : 6 If you point these things out to the brothers and sisters, you will be a good servant of Christ Jesus, nourished by the words of faith and the good teaching that you have followed.
  • Titus 1:9 : 9 He must hold firmly to the trustworthy message as it has been taught, so that he can encourage others by sound teaching and refute those who oppose it.
  • 1 Chr 28:9 : 9 And you, Solomon my son, know the God of your father and serve Him with wholehearted devotion and a willing mind, for the LORD searches every heart 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 Chr 7:19 : 19 But if you turn away and forsake the statutes and commandments I have set before you, and go and serve other gods and worship them,
  • Job 11:4 : 4 For you say, 'My teaching is pure, and I have been clean in your eyes.'

Similar Verses (AI)

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  • Prov 4:1
    83%

    1Listen, my sons, to the instruction of a father; pay attention so you may gain understanding.

  • Prov 1:8
    82%

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

  • Prov 3:1
    79%

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

  • Prov 6:20
    79%

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

  • Prov 4:3-6
    4 verses
    77%

    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.

    6Do not abandon her, and she will guard you; love her, and she will protect you.

  • Prov 4:10-11
    2 verses
    75%

    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 2:1
    75%

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

  • Prov 8:32-33
    2 verses
    75%

    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 7:1-2
    2 verses
    74%

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

    2Keep my commandments and live, and guard my teaching as the apple of your eye.

  • Prov 5:7
    74%

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

  • Prov 4:20-21
    2 verses
    73%

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

    21Do not let them depart from your sight; keep them in the midst of your heart.

  • Prov 5:1
    72%

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

  • Jer 26:4
    72%

    4And you shall say to them, 'The LORD says: If you do not listen to Me and follow My law which I have set before you...

  • Prov 22:6
    72%

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

  • Prov 23:26
    72%

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

  • Prov 22:20
    72%

    20Have I not written for you thirty sayings of counsel and knowledge?

  • Prov 4:13
    72%

    13Hold tightly to instruction; do not let it go. Guard it well, for it is your life.

  • Prov 28:4
    72%

    4Those who forsake the law praise the wicked, but those who keep the law contend with them.

  • Prov 19:27
    71%

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

  • Ps 78:1
    71%

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

  • Gen 27:8
    71%

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

  • Ps 119:8
    71%

    8I will keep Your statutes; do not utterly forsake me.

  • Ps 89:30
    71%

    30I will establish his offspring forever and his throne as the days of the heavens.

  • Prov 7:24
    71%

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

  • Job 22:22
    71%

    22Accept instruction from His mouth and place His words in your heart.

  • Deut 4:2
    71%

    2Do not add to the command that I am giving you, and do not take away from it, so that you may keep the commandments of the LORD your God that I am commanding you.

  • Ps 119:4
    71%

    4You have commanded Your precepts to be kept diligently.

  • Deut 4:5
    71%

    5See, I have taught you statutes and judgments just as the LORD my God commanded me, so that you may act according to them in the land you are entering to possess.

  • Jer 9:13
    71%

    13Instead, they followed the stubbornness of their hearts and went after the Baals, as their fathers taught them.

  • Ps 119:34
    70%

    34Give me understanding, that I may keep Your law and observe it with all my heart.

  • Prov 3:21
    70%

    21My son, do not let them depart from your sight; guard sound wisdom and discretion.

  • Ps 34:11
    70%

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

  • Prov 6:23
    70%

    23For the commandment is a lamp, the teaching is a light, and the corrections of discipline are the way to life.

  • Prov 3:11
    70%

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

  • Prov 13:14
    70%

    14The teaching of the wise is a fountain of life, helping one turn away from the traps of death.

  • Ps 119:102
    70%

    102I have not turned aside from Your judgments, for You have taught me.

  • Eph 6:4
    70%

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

  • Deut 4:14
    70%

    14The LORD commanded me at that time to teach you statutes and judgments, so that you would observe them in the land you are crossing over to possess.

  • Prov 1:15
    70%

    15My son, do not walk in the way with them; keep your foot away from their paths,

  • Ps 119:66
    70%

    66Teach me good judgment and knowledge, for I trust in Your commandments.

  • Jer 16:11
    70%

    11Then you are to answer them: 'It is because your ancestors abandoned Me,' declares the LORD, 'and followed other gods, served them, and worshiped them. But they abandoned Me and did not keep My law.