Proverbs 4:20

Geneva Bible (1560)

My sonne, hearken vnto my wordes, incline thine eare vnto my sayings.

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Referenced Verses

  • Prov 5:1 : 1 My sonne, hearken vnto my wisedome, & incline thine eare vnto my knowledge.
  • Prov 7:1 : 1 My sonne, keepe my wordes, & hide my commandements with thee.
  • Isa 55:3 : 3 Encline your eares, and come vnto me: heare, and your soule shal liue, and I will make an euerlasting couenant with you, euen the sure mercies of Dauid.
  • Matt 17:5 : 5 While he yet spake, behold, a bright cloude shadowed them: and beholde, there came a voyce out of the cloude, saying, This is that my beloued Sonne, in whom I am wel pleased: heare him.
  • Prov 6:20-21 : 20 My sonne, keepe thy fathers commandement, and forsake not thy mothers instruction. 21 Binde them alway vpon thine heart, and tye them about thy necke.
  • Ps 78:1 : 1 A Psalme to giue instruction comitted to Asaph. Heare my doctrine, O my people: incline your eares vnto the wordes of my mouth.
  • Ps 90:12 : 12 Teach vs so to nomber our dayes, that we may apply our heartes vnto wisdome.

Similar Verses (AI)

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

  • Prov 5:1-2
    2 verses
    86%

    1My sonne, hearken vnto my wisedome, & incline thine eare vnto my knowledge.

    2That thou maiest regarde counsell, and thy lippes obserue knowledge.

  • Prov 2:1-2
    2 verses
    83%

    1My sonne, if thou wilt receiue my wordes, and hide my commandements within thee,

    2And cause thine eares to hearken vnto wisdome, and encline thine heart to vnderstanding,

  • Prov 4:10-11
    2 verses
    82%

    10Heare, my sonne, & receiue my wordes, and the yeeres of thy life shalbe many.

    11I haue taught thee in ye way of wisedom, and led thee in the pathes of righteousnesse.

  • Prov 7:24-25
    2 verses
    81%

    24Heare me now therefore, O children, and hearken to the wordes of my mouth.

    25Let not thine heart decline to her wayes: wander thou not in her paths.

  • Prov 4:1-2
    2 verses
    81%

    1Heare, O ye children, the instruction of a father, and giue eare to learne vnderstanding.

    2For I doe giue you a good doctrine: therefore forsake yee not my lawe.

  • Prov 4:21
    80%

    21Let them not depart from thine eyes, but keepe them in the middes of thine heart.

  • Prov 7:1
    80%

    1My sonne, keepe my wordes, & hide my commandements with thee.

  • Prov 23:26
    80%

    26My sonne, giue mee thine heart, and let thine eyes delite in my wayes.

  • Prov 22:17-18
    2 verses
    79%

    17Incline thine eare, and heare the wordes of the wise, and apply thine heart vnto my knowledge.

    18For it shalbe pleasant, if thou keepe them in thy bellie, and if they be directed together in thy lippes.

  • Prov 5:7
    79%

    7Heare yee me nowe therefore, O children, and depart not from the wordes of my mouth.

  • Prov 23:19
    79%

    19O thou my sonne, heare, and bee wise, and guide thine heart in the way.

  • Prov 23:12
    78%

    12Apply thine heart to instruction, and thine eares to the wordes of knowledge.

  • Prov 8:32-33
    2 verses
    78%

    32Therefore nowe hearken, O children, vnto me: for blessed are they that keepe my wayes.

    33Heare instruction, and be ye wise, and refuse it not:

  • Prov 1:8
    78%

    8My sonne, heare thy fathers instruction, and forsake not thy mothers teaching.

  • Prov 3:1
    77%

    1My sonne, forget not thou my Lawe, but let thine heart keepe my commandements.

  • Prov 4:4-5
    2 verses
    77%

    4When he taught me, and sayde vnto me, Let thine heart holde fast my woordes: keepe my commandements, and thou shalt liue.

    5Get wisedom: get vnderstading: forget not, neither decline from the woordes of my mouth.

  • Prov 3:21
    77%

    21My sonne, let not these things depart from thine eyes, but obserue wisdome, and counsell.

  • Ps 78:1
    77%

    1A Psalme to giue instruction comitted to Asaph. Heare my doctrine, O my people: incline your eares vnto the wordes of my mouth.

  • Prov 1:15
    76%

    15My sonne, walke not thou in the way with them: refraine thy foote from their path.

  • Prov 19:27
    75%

    27My sonne, heare no more the instruction, that causeth to erre from ye words of knowledge.

  • Prov 6:20-21
    2 verses
    75%

    20My sonne, keepe thy fathers commandement, and forsake not thy mothers instruction.

    21Binde them alway vpon thine heart, and tye them about thy necke.

  • Prov 1:10
    74%

    10My sonne, if sinners doe intise thee, consent thou not.

  • Gen 27:8
    74%

    8Nowe therefore, my sonne, heare my voyce in that which I command thee.

  • Ezek 3:10
    74%

    10He said moreouer vnto me, Sonne of man, receiue in thine heart al my words that I speake vnto thee, and heare them with thine eares,

  • Job 34:16
    74%

    16And if thou hast vnderstanding, heare this and hearken to the voyce of my wordes.

  • Isa 28:23
    74%

    23Hearken ye, and heare my voyce: hearken ye, and heare my speach.

  • Job 13:17
    74%

    17Heare diligently my wordes, and marke my talke.

  • Prov 22:6
    73%

    6Teache a childe in the trade of his way, and when he is olde, he shall not depart from it.

  • Prov 4:25-26
    2 verses
    73%

    25Let thine eyes beholde the right, and let thine eyeliddes direct thy way before thee.

    26Ponder the path of thy feete, and let all thy waies be ordred aright.

  • Ps 49:4
    73%

    4I will incline mine eare to a parable, and vtter my graue matter vpon the harpe.

  • Prov 4:19
    72%

    19The way of the wicked is as the darkenes: they knowe not wherein they shall fall.

  • Job 22:22
    72%

    22Receiue, I pray thee, the law of his mouth, and lay vp his words in thine heart.

  • Prov 1:5
    72%

    5A wise man shall heare and increase in learning, and a man of vnderstanding shall attayne vnto wise counsels,

  • Ps 5:1
    72%

    1To him that excelleth vpon Nehiloth. A Psalme of Dauid. Heare my wordes, O Lorde: vnderstande my meditation.

  • Prov 23:15
    72%

    15My sonne, if thine heart be wise, mine heart shall reioyce, and I also.

  • Prov 27:11
    72%

    11My sonne, be wise, and reioyce mine heart, that I may answere him that reprocheth me.

  • Prov 1:23
    72%

    23(Turne you at my correction: loe, I will powre out my mind vnto you, and make you vnderstand my wordes)

  • Prov 23:22
    72%

    22Obey thy father that hath begotten thee, and despise not thy mother when she is olde.

  • Prov 13:1
    71%

    1A wise sonne will obey the instruction of his father: but a scorner will heare no rebuke.