Proverbs 4:20

KJV1611 – Modern English

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

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Referenced Verses

  • Prov 5:1 : 1 My son, attend to my wisdom, and incline your ear to my understanding:
  • Prov 7:1 : 1 My son, keep my words and store up my commandments with you.
  • Isa 55:3 : 3 Incline your ear, and come to me. Hear, and your soul shall live; and I will make an everlasting covenant with you, the sure mercies of David.
  • Matt 17:5 : 5 While he was still speaking, 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; listen to him.
  • Prov 6:20-21 : 20 My son, keep your father's commandment, and do not forsake the law of your mother: 21 Bind them continually upon your heart, and tie them around your neck.
  • Ps 78:1 : 1 Listen, 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 to 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%

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

    2That you may keep discretion, and that your lips may preserve knowledge.

  • Prov 2:1-2
    2 verses
    83%

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

    2So that you incline your ear to wisdom, and apply your heart to understanding;

  • Prov 4:10-11
    2 verses
    82%

    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 7:24-25
    2 verses
    81%

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

    25Let not your heart incline to her ways, do not stray in her paths.

  • Prov 4:1-2
    2 verses
    81%

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

    2For I give you good teaching, do not forsake my law.

  • Prov 4:21
    80%

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

  • Prov 7:1
    80%

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

  • Prov 23:26
    80%

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

  • Prov 22:17-18
    2 verses
    79%

    17Incline your ear and hear the words of the wise, and apply your heart to my knowledge.

    18For it is a pleasant thing if you keep them within you; they shall all be ready on your lips.

  • Prov 5:7
    79%

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

  • Prov 23:19
    79%

    19Hear, my son, and be wise, and guide your heart in the way.

  • Prov 23:12
    78%

    12Apply your heart to instruction, and your ears to the words of knowledge.

  • Prov 8:32-33
    2 verses
    78%

    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 1:8
    78%

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

  • Prov 3:1
    77%

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

  • Prov 4:4-5
    2 verses
    77%

    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.

  • Prov 3:21
    77%

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

  • Ps 78:1
    77%

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

  • Prov 1:15
    76%

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

  • Prov 19:27
    75%

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

  • Prov 6:20-21
    2 verses
    75%

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

    21Bind them continually upon your heart, and tie them around your neck.

  • Prov 1:10
    74%

    10My son, if sinners entice you, do not consent.

  • Gen 27:8
    74%

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

  • Ezek 3:10
    74%

    10Moreover he said to me, Son of man, all my words that I speak to you receive in your heart, and hear with your ears.

  • Job 34:16
    74%

    16If now you have understanding, hear this; listen to the voice of my words.

  • Isa 28:23
    74%

    23Give ear, and hear my voice; listen, and hear my speech.

  • Job 13:17
    74%

    17Listen diligently to my speech, and my declaration with your ears.

  • Prov 22:6
    73%

    6Train 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 your eyes look straight ahead, and let your eyelids look straight before you.

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

  • Ps 49:4
    73%

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

  • Prov 4:19
    72%

    19The way of the wicked is like darkness: they do not know at what they stumble.

  • Job 22:22
    72%

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

  • Prov 1:5
    72%

    5A wise man will hear and increase in learning, and a man of understanding will attain wise counsel;

  • Ps 5:1
    72%

    1Listen to my words, O LORD, consider my meditation.

  • Prov 23:15
    72%

    15My son, if your heart is wise, my heart shall rejoice, even mine.

  • Prov 27:11
    72%

    11My son, be wise, and make my heart glad, that I may have an answer for him who reproaches me.

  • Prov 1:23
    72%

    23Turn at my rebuke; surely I will pour out my spirit upon you, I will make my words known to you.

  • Prov 23:22
    72%

    22Listen to your father who begot you, and do not despise your mother when she is old.

  • Prov 13:1
    71%

    1A wise son hears his father's instruction, but a scoffer does not listen to rebuke.