Proverbs 4:1

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Admonition to Follow Righteousness and Avoid Wickedness Listen, children, to a father’s instruction, and pay attention so that you may gain discernment.

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Referenced Verses

  • Prov 1:8 : 8 Listen, my child, to the instruction from your father, and do not forsake the teaching from your mother.
  • Ps 34:11 : 11 Come children! Listen to me! I will teach you what it means to fear the LORD.
  • 1 Thess 2:11-12 : 11 As you know, we treated each one of you as a father treats his own children, 12 exhorting and encouraging you and insisting that you live in a way worthy of God who calls you to his own kingdom and his glory.
  • Heb 2:1 : 1 Warning Against Drifting Away Therefore we must pay closer attention to what we have heard, so that we do not drift away.
  • Prov 2:1-5 : 1 Benefits of Seeking Wisdom My child, if you receive my words, and store up my commands inside yourself, 2 by making your ear attentive to wisdom, and by turning your heart to understanding, 3 indeed, if you call out for discernment– shout loudly for understanding– 4 if you seek it like silver, and search for it like hidden treasure, 5 then you will understand how to fear the LORD, and you will discover knowledge about God.
  • Prov 5:1 : 1 Admonition to Avoid Seduction to Evil My child, be attentive to my wisdom, pay close attention to my understanding,
  • Prov 6:20-23 : 20 My child, guard the commands of your father and do not forsake the instruction of your mother. 21 Bind them on your heart continually; fasten them around your neck. 22 When you walk about, they will guide you; when you lie down, they will watch over you; when you wake up, they will talk to you. 23 For the commandments are like a lamp, instruction is like a light, and rebukes of discipline are like the road leading to life,
  • Prov 7:4 : 4 Say to wisdom,“You are my sister,” and call understanding a close relative,
  • Prov 8:32-36 : 32 “So now, children, listen to me; blessed are those who keep my ways. 33 Listen to my instruction so that you may be wise, and do not neglect it. 34 Blessed is the one who listens to me, watching at my doors day by day, waiting beside my doorway. 35 For the one who finds me has found life and received favor from the LORD. 36 But the one who misses me brings harm to himself; all who hate me love death."
  • Prov 19:20 : 20 Listen to advice and receive discipline, that you may become wise by the end of your life.
  • Prov 22:17 : 17 The Sayings of the Wise Incline your ear and listen to the words of the wise, and apply your mind to my instruction.

Similar Verses (AI)

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  • Prov 1:7-8
    2 verses
    84%

    7Introduction to the Theme of the Book Fearing the LORD is the beginning of discernment, but fools have despised wisdom and moral instruction.

    8Listen, my child, to the instruction from your father, and do not forsake the teaching from your mother.

  • Prov 5:1
    84%

    1Admonition to Avoid Seduction to Evil My child, be attentive to my wisdom, pay close attention to my understanding,

  • Prov 4:2-5
    4 verses
    83%

    2Because I hereby give you good instruction, do not forsake my teaching.

    3When I was a son to my father, a tender only child before my mother,

    4he taught me, and he said to me:“Let your heart lay hold of my words; keep my commands so that you will live.

    5Acquire wisdom, acquire understanding; do not forget and do not turn aside from the words I speak.

  • Prov 4:20
    81%

    20My child, pay attention to my words; listen attentively to my sayings.

  • Prov 7:24
    81%

    24So now, sons, listen to me, and pay attention to the words I speak.

  • Prov 5:7
    79%

    7So now, children, listen to me; do not turn aside from the words I speak.

  • Prov 2:1-2
    2 verses
    79%

    1Benefits of Seeking Wisdom My child, if you receive my words, and store up my commands inside yourself,

    2by making your ear attentive to wisdom, and by turning your heart to understanding,

  • Prov 4:10-11
    2 verses
    78%

    10Listen, my child, and accept my words, so that the years of your life will be many.

    11I hereby guide you in the way of wisdom and I lead you in upright paths.

  • Prov 8:32-33
    2 verses
    78%

    32“So now, children, listen to me; blessed are those who keep my ways.

    33Listen to my instruction so that you may be wise, and do not neglect it.

  • Prov 13:1
    77%

    1A wise son accepts his father’s discipline, but a scoffer has never listened to rebuke.

  • Prov 3:1
    77%

    1Exhortations to Seek Wisdom and Walk with the Lord My child, do not forget my teaching, but let your heart keep my commandments,

  • Ps 34:11
    76%

    11Come children! Listen to me! I will teach you what it means to fear the LORD.

  • Prov 23:12
    76%

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

  • Eph 6:4
    76%

    4Fathers, do not provoke your children to anger, but raise them up in the discipline and instruction of the Lord.

  • Prov 19:27
    76%

    27If you stop listening to instruction, my child, you will stray from the words of knowledge.

  • Prov 23:19
    75%

    19Listen, my child, and be wise, and guide your heart on the right way.

  • Prov 1:2-5
    4 verses
    75%

    2To learn wisdom and moral instruction, to discern wise counsel.

    3To receive moral instruction in skillful living, with righteousness, justice, and equity.

    4To impart shrewdness to the morally naive, a discerning plan to the young person.

    5(Let the wise also hear and gain instruction, and let the discerning acquire guidance!)

  • Gen 27:8
    75%

    8Now then, my son, do exactly what I tell you!

  • Prov 23:26
    75%

    26Give me your heart, my son, and let your eyes observe my ways;

  • Prov 6:20
    75%

    20My child, guard the commands of your father and do not forsake the instruction of your mother.

  • Prov 7:1
    75%

    1Admonition to Avoid the Wiles of the Adulteress My child, devote yourself to my words and store up my commands inside yourself.

  • Jer 3:4
    74%

    4Even now you say to me,‘You are my father! You have been my faithful companion ever since I was young.

  • Job 34:16
    73%

    16God Is Impartial and Omniscient“If you have understanding, listen to this, hear what I have to say.

  • Prov 23:22
    73%

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

  • Deut 4:10
    73%

    10You stood before the LORD your God at Horeb and he said to me,“Assemble the people before me so that I can tell them my commands. Then they will learn to revere me all the days they live in the land, and they will instruct their children.”

  • Prov 15:5
    73%

    5A fool rejects his father’s discipline, but whoever heeds reproof shows good sense.

  • Isa 1:2
    73%

    2Obedience, not Sacrifice Listen, O heavens, pay attention, O earth! For the LORD speaks:“I raised children, I brought them up, but they have rebelled against me!

  • Prov 22:6
    73%

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

  • Prov 8:5
    73%

    5You who are naive, discern wisdom! And you fools, understand discernment!

  • Prov 22:17
    73%

    17The Sayings of the Wise Incline your ear and listen to the words of the wise, and apply your mind to my instruction.

  • Job 34:2
    72%

    2“Listen to my words, you wise men; hear me, you learned men.

  • Prov 3:11-12
    2 verses
    72%

    11My child, do not despise discipline from the LORD, and do not loathe his rebuke.

    12For the LORD disciplines those he loves, just as a father disciplines the son in whom he delights.

  • Prov 23:24
    72%

    24The father of a righteous person will rejoice greatly; whoever fathers a wise child will have joy in him.

  • Ps 78:1
    72%

    1A well-written song by Asaph. Pay attention, my people, to my instruction! Listen to the words I speak!

  • Eph 6:1
    72%

    1Children, obey your parents in the Lord, for this is right.

  • Prov 4:7
    72%

    7Wisdom is supreme– so acquire wisdom, and whatever you acquire, acquire understanding!

  • Heb 12:5
    72%

    5And have you forgotten the exhortation addressed to you as sons?“My son, do not scorn the Lord’s discipline or give up when he corrects you.

  • Prov 29:17
    72%

    17Discipline your child, and he will give you rest; he will bring you happiness.