Proverbs 4:20

Authorized King James Version (1611)

¶ 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.

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%

    1¶ My son, attend unto my wisdom, [and] bow thine ear to my understanding:

    2That thou mayest regard discretion, and [that] thy lips may keep knowledge.

  • Prov 2:1-2
    2 verses
    83%

    1¶ My son, if thou wilt receive my words, and hide my commandments with thee;

    2So that thou incline thine ear unto wisdom, [and] apply thine heart to understanding;

  • Prov 4:10-11
    2 verses
    82%

    10Hear, O my son, and receive my sayings; and the years of thy life shall be many.

    11I have taught thee in the way of wisdom; I have led thee in right paths.

  • Prov 7:24-25
    2 verses
    81%

    24¶ Hearken unto me now therefore, O ye children, and attend to the words of my mouth.

    25Let not thine heart decline to her ways, go not astray in her paths.

  • Prov 4:1-2
    2 verses
    81%

    1¶ Hear, ye children, the instruction of a father, and attend to know understanding.

    2For I give you good doctrine, forsake ye not my law.

  • Prov 4:21
    80%

    21Let them not depart from thine eyes; keep them in the midst of thine heart.

  • Prov 7:1
    80%

    1¶ My son, keep my words, and lay up my commandments with thee.

  • Prov 23:26
    80%

    26My son, give me thine heart, and let thine eyes observe my ways.

  • Prov 22:17-18
    2 verses
    79%

    17¶ Bow down thine ear, and hear the words of the wise, and apply thine heart unto my knowledge.

    18For [it is] a pleasant thing if thou keep them within thee; they shall withal be fitted in thy lips.

  • Prov 5:7
    79%

    7Hear me now therefore, O ye children, and depart not from the words of my mouth.

  • Prov 23:19
    79%

    19¶ Hear thou, my son, and be wise, and guide thine heart in the way.

  • Prov 23:12
    78%

    12¶ Apply thine heart unto instruction, and thine ears to the words of knowledge.

  • Prov 8:32-33
    2 verses
    78%

    32¶ Now therefore hearken unto me, O ye children: for blessed [are they that] keep my ways.

    33Hear instruction, and be wise, and refuse it not.

  • Prov 1:8
    78%

    8My son, hear the instruction of thy father, and forsake not the law of thy mother:

  • Prov 3:1
    77%

    1¶ My son, forget not my law; but let thine heart keep my commandments:

  • Prov 4:4-5
    2 verses
    77%

    4He taught me also, and said unto me, Let thine heart retain my words: keep my commandments, and live.

    5Get wisdom, get understanding: forget [it] not; neither decline from the words of my mouth.

  • Prov 3:21
    77%

    21¶ My son, let not them depart from thine eyes: keep sound wisdom and discretion:

  • Ps 78:1
    77%

    1¶ Maschil of Asaph. Give ear, O my people, [to] my law: incline your ears to the words of my mouth.

  • Prov 1:15
    76%

    15My son, walk not thou in the way with them; refrain thy foot from their path:

  • Prov 19:27
    75%

    27¶ Cease, my son, to hear the instruction [that causeth] to err from the words of knowledge.

  • Prov 6:20-21
    2 verses
    75%

    20¶ My son, keep thy father's commandment, and forsake not the law of thy mother:

    21Bind them continually upon thine heart, [and] tie them about thy neck.

  • Prov 1:10
    74%

    10¶ My son, if sinners entice thee, consent thou not.

  • Gen 27:8
    74%

    8Now therefore, my son, obey my voice according to that which I command thee.

  • Ezek 3:10
    74%

    10Moreover 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.

  • Job 34:16
    74%

    16¶ If now [thou hast] understanding, hear this: hearken to the voice of my words.

  • Isa 28:23
    74%

    23¶ Give ye ear, and hear my voice; hearken, and hear my speech.

  • Job 13:17
    74%

    17Hear diligently my speech, and my declaration with your ears.

  • Prov 22:6
    73%

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

  • Prov 4:25-26
    2 verses
    73%

    25Let thine eyes look right on, and let thine eyelids look straight before thee.

    26Ponder the path of thy feet, and let all thy ways be established.

  • Ps 49:4
    73%

    4I will incline mine ear to a parable: I will open my dark saying upon the harp.

  • Prov 4:19
    72%

    19The way of the wicked [is] as darkness: they know not at what they stumble.

  • Job 22:22
    72%

    22Receive, I pray thee, the law from his mouth, and lay up his words in thine heart.

  • Prov 1:5
    72%

    5A wise [man] will hear, and will increase learning; and a man of understanding shall attain unto wise counsels:

  • Ps 5:1
    72%

    1¶ To the chief Musician upon Nehiloth, A Psalm of David. Give ear to my words, O LORD, consider my meditation.

  • Prov 23:15
    72%

    15My son, if thine heart be wise, my heart shall rejoice, even mine.

  • Prov 27:11
    72%

    11¶ My son, be wise, and make my heart glad, that I may answer him that reproacheth me.

  • Prov 1:23
    72%

    23Turn you at my reproof: behold, I will pour out my spirit unto you, I will make known my words unto you.

  • Prov 23:22
    72%

    22Hearken unto thy father that begat thee, and despise not thy mother when she is old.

  • Prov 13:1
    71%

    1¶ A wise son [heareth] his father's instruction: but a scorner heareth not rebuke.