Proverbs 4:20
¶ My son, attend to my words; incline thine ear unto my sayings.
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Referenced Verses
- Prov 5:1 : 1 ¶ My son, attend unto my wisdom, [and] bow thine ear to my understanding:
- Prov 7:1 : 1 ¶ My son, keep my words, and lay up my commandments with thee.
- Isa 55:3 : 3 Incline your ear, and come unto me: hear, and your soul shall live; and I will make an everlasting covenant with you, [even] the sure mercies of David.
- Matt 17:5 : 5 While he yet spake, behold, a bright cloud overshadowed them: and behold a voice out of the cloud, which said, This is my beloved Son, in whom I am well pleased; hear ye him.
- Prov 6:20-21 : 20 ¶ My son, keep thy father's commandment, and forsake not the law of thy mother: 21 Bind them continually upon thine heart, [and] tie them about thy neck.
- Ps 78:1 : 1 ¶ Maschil of Asaph. Give ear, O my people, [to] my law: incline your ears to the words of my mouth.
- Ps 90:12 : 12 ¶ So teach [us] to number our days, that we may apply [our] hearts unto wisdom.
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1 ¶ My son, attend unto my wisdom, [and] bow thine ear to my understanding:
2 That thou mayest regard discretion, and [that] thy lips may keep knowledge.
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2 So that thou incline thine ear unto wisdom, [and] apply thine heart to understanding;
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- Prov 7:24-252 verses81%
24 ¶ Hearken unto me now therefore, O ye children, and attend to the words of my mouth.
25 Let not thine heart decline to her ways, go not astray in her paths.
- Prov 4:1-22 verses81%
1 ¶ Hear, ye children, the instruction of a father, and attend to know understanding.
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21 Let them not depart from thine eyes; keep them in the midst of thine heart.
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1 ¶ My son, keep my words, and lay up my commandments with thee.
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- Prov 22:17-182 verses79%
17 ¶ Bow down thine ear, and hear the words of the wise, and apply thine heart unto my knowledge.
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7 Hear me now therefore, O ye children, and depart not from the words of my mouth.
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19 ¶ Hear thou, my son, and be wise, and guide thine heart in the way.
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12 ¶ Apply thine heart unto instruction, and thine ears to the words of knowledge.
- Prov 8:32-332 verses78%
32 ¶ Now therefore hearken unto me, O ye children: for blessed [are they that] keep my ways.
33 Hear instruction, and be wise, and refuse it not.
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8 My son, hear the instruction of thy father, and forsake not the law of thy mother:
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4 He taught me also, and said unto me, Let thine heart retain my words: keep my commandments, and live.
5 Get wisdom, get understanding: forget [it] not; neither decline from the words of my mouth.
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15 My son, walk not thou in the way with them; refrain thy foot from their path:
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27 ¶ Cease, my son, to hear the instruction [that causeth] to err from the words of knowledge.
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20 ¶ My son, keep thy father's commandment, and forsake not the law of thy mother:
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10 ¶ My son, if sinners entice thee, consent thou not.
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8 Now therefore, my son, obey my voice according to that which I command thee.
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10 Moreover he said unto me, Son of man, all my words that I shall speak unto thee receive in thine heart, and hear with thine ears.
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16 ¶ If now [thou hast] understanding, hear this: hearken to the voice of my words.
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23 ¶ Give ye ear, and hear my voice; hearken, and hear my speech.
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17 Hear diligently my speech, and my declaration with your ears.
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25 Let thine eyes look right on, and let thine eyelids look straight before thee.
26 Ponder the path of thy feet, and let all thy ways be established.
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19 The way of the wicked [is] as darkness: they know not at what they stumble.
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23 Turn you at my reproof: behold, I will pour out my spirit unto you, I will make known my words unto you.
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22 Hearken unto thy father that begat thee, and despise not thy mother when she is old.
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1 ¶ A wise son [heareth] his father's instruction: but a scorner heareth not rebuke.