Proverbs 4:2

KJV1611 – Modern English

For I give you good teaching, do not forsake my law.

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  • Deut 32:2 : 2 My teaching shall drop as the rain, my words shall distill as the dew, as the gentle rain upon the tender herb, and as the showers upon the grass:
  • Ps 89:30-32 : 30 If his children forsake my law and do not walk in my judgments; 31 If they break my statutes and do not keep my commandments; 32 Then I will visit their transgression with the rod, and their iniquity with stripes.
  • Prov 8:6-9 : 6 Hear, for I will speak of excellent things; and from the opening of my lips will come right things. 7 For my mouth will speak truth; wickedness is an abomination to my lips. 8 All the words of my mouth are righteous; there is nothing twisted or perverse in them. 9 They are all plain to him who understands, and right to those who find knowledge.
  • Job 33:3 : 3 My words shall be from the uprightness of my heart, and my lips shall clearly speak knowledge.
  • Ps 49:1-3 : 1 Hear this, all you people; give ear, all you inhabitants of the world: 2 Both low and high, rich and poor, together. 3 My mouth shall speak of wisdom; and the meditation of my heart shall be of understanding.
  • Prov 22:20-21 : 20 Have I not written to you excellent things in counsels and knowledge, 21 That I might make you know the certainty of the words of truth, that you may answer the words of truth to those who send to you?
  • John 7:16-17 : 16 Jesus answered them and said, My teaching is not mine, but his who sent me. 17 If anyone will do his will, he shall know concerning the teaching, whether it is from God or whether I speak on my own authority.
  • 1 Tim 4:6 : 6 If you remind the brethren of these things, you shall be a good minister of Jesus Christ, nourished in the words of faith and of good doctrine, to which you have attained.
  • Titus 1:9 : 9 Holding fast the faithful word as he has been taught, that he may be able, by sound doctrine, both to exhort and to convict those who contradict.
  • 1 Chr 28:9 : 9 And you, Solomon my son, know the God of your father, and serve him with a perfect heart and a willing mind: for the LORD searches all hearts and understands all the imaginations of the thoughts: if you seek him, he will be found by you; but if you forsake him, he will cast you off forever.
  • 2 Chr 7:19 : 19 But if you turn away and forsake My statutes and My commandments which I have set before you, and go and serve other gods, and worship them;
  • Job 11:4 : 4 For you have said, 'My doctrine is pure, and I am clean in your eyes.'

Similar Verses (AI)

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  • Prov 4:1
    83%

    1Listen, you children, to the instruction of a father, and pay attention to gain understanding.

  • Prov 1:8
    82%

    8My son, hear the instruction of your father, and do not forsake the law of your mother;

  • Prov 3:1
    79%

    1My son, do not forget my law; but let your heart keep my commandments:

  • Prov 6:20
    79%

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

  • Prov 4:3-6
    4 verses
    77%

    3For I was my father's son, tender and dearly loved in the sight of my mother.

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

    5Get wisdom, get understanding: do not forget it; neither turn away from the words of my mouth.

    6Do not forsake her, and she will preserve you: love her, and she will keep you.

  • Prov 4:10-11
    2 verses
    75%

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

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

  • Prov 2:1
    75%

    1My son, if you will receive my words and hide my commandments with you;

  • Prov 8:32-33
    2 verses
    75%

    32Now therefore listen to me, O children, for blessed are those who keep my ways.

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

  • Prov 7:1-2
    2 verses
    74%

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

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

  • Prov 5:7
    74%

    7Hear me now therefore, O children, and do not depart 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 eyes; keep them in the midst of your heart.

  • Prov 5:1
    72%

    1My son, attend to my wisdom, and incline your ear to my understanding:

  • Jer 26:4
    72%

    4And you shall say to them, Thus says the LORD: If you will not listen to me, to walk in my law, which I have set before you,

  • Prov 22:6
    72%

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

  • Prov 23:26
    72%

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

  • Prov 22:20
    72%

    20Have I not written to you excellent things in counsels and knowledge,

  • Mal 4:4
    72%

    4Remember the law of Moses my servant, which I commanded to him in Horeb for all Israel, with the statutes and judgments.

  • Prov 4:13
    72%

    13Take firm hold of instruction; do not let her go: keep her; for she 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%

    27Cease, my son, to hear the instruction that causes to err from the words of knowledge.

  • Ps 78:1
    71%

    1Listen, O my people, to my law: incline your ears to the words of my mouth.

  • Gen 27:8
    71%

    8Now therefore, my son, obey my voice according to what I command you.

  • Ps 119:8
    71%

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

  • Ps 89:30
    71%

    30If his children forsake my law and do not walk in my judgments;

  • Prov 7:24
    71%

    24Therefore listen to me now, O children, and attend to the words of my mouth.

  • Job 22:22
    71%

    22Receive, I pray you, the law from His mouth, and lay up His words in your heart.

  • Deut 4:2
    71%

    2You shall not add to the word which I command you, nor take anything from it, that you may keep the commandments of the LORD your God which I command you.

  • Ps 119:4
    71%

    4You have commanded us to keep Your precepts diligently.

  • Deut 4:5
    71%

    5Behold, I have taught you statutes and judgments, even as the LORD my God commanded me, that you should do so in the land where you go to possess it.

  • Jer 9:13
    71%

    13And the LORD says, Because they have forsaken my law which I set before them, and have not obeyed my voice, nor walked in it;

  • Ps 119:34
    70%

    34Give me understanding, and I shall keep Your law; indeed, I shall observe it with my whole heart.

  • Prov 3:21
    70%

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

  • Ps 34:11
    70%

    11Come, you children, listen to me: I will teach you the fear of the LORD.

  • Prov 6:23
    70%

    23For the commandment is a lamp; and the law is light; and reproofs of instruction are the way of life:

  • Prov 3:11
    70%

    11My son, do not despise the chastening of the LORD; nor be weary of his correction:

  • Prov 13:14
    70%

    14The law of the wise is a fountain of life, to depart from the snares of death.

  • Ps 119:102
    70%

    102I have not departed from Your judgments, for You Yourself have taught me.

  • Eph 6:4
    70%

    4And, you fathers, do not provoke your children to wrath, but bring them up in the nurture and admonition of the Lord.

  • Deut 4:14
    70%

    14And the LORD commanded me at that time to teach you statutes and judgments, that you might do them in the land where you go over to possess it.

  • Prov 1:15
    70%

    15My son, do not walk in the way with them, hold back your foot from their path;

  • Ps 119:66
    70%

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

  • Jer 16:11
    70%

    11Then you shall say to them, Because your fathers have forsaken me, says the LORD, and have walked after other gods, and have served them, and have worshiped them, and have forsaken me, and have not kept my law.