Proverbs 4:10 - New Revised Standard Version Updated Edition 2021

¹⁰ Hear, my child, and accept my words, that the years of your life may be many.

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King James Version (Oxford) 1769

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

Amplified Bible - Classic Edition

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

American Standard Version (1901)

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

Common English Bible

¹⁰ Listen, my son, and take in my speech, then the years of your life will be many.

Catholic Public Domain Version

¹⁰ Listen, my son, and accept my words, so that years of life may be multiplied for you.

Douay-Rheims version of The Bible - 1752 version

¹⁰ Hear, O my son, and receive my words, that years of life may be multiplied to thee.

Proverbs 4:10 Cross References

Job 22:22

Receive instruction from his mouth, and lay up his words in your heart.

Proverbs 19:20

Listen to advice and accept instruction, that you may gain wisdom for the future.

Proverbs 2:1

My child, if you accept my words and treasure up my commandments within you,

Proverbs 3:16

Long life is in her right hand; in her left hand are riches and honor.

Proverbs 3:2

for length of days and years of life and abundant welfare they will give you.

Proverbs 8:10

Take my instruction instead of silver and knowledge rather than choice gold,

Jeremiah 9:20

Hear, O women, the word of the Lord, and let your ears receive the word of his mouth; teach to your daughters a dirge and each to her neighbor a lament.

Deuteronomy 11:21

so that your days and the days of your children may be multiplied in the land that the Lord swore to your ancestors to give them, as long as the heavens are above the earth.

Deuteronomy 5:16

“ ‘Honor your father and your mother, as the Lord your God commanded you, so that your days may be long and that it may go well with you in the land that the Lord your God is giving you.

Deuteronomy 6:2

so that you and your children and your children’s children may fear the Lord your God all the days of your life and keep all his decrees and his commandments that I am commanding you, so that your days may be long.

1 Thessalonians 2:13

We also constantly give thanks to God for this, that when you received the word of God that you heard from us you accepted it not as a human word but as what it really is, God’s word, which is also at work in you believers.

1 Timothy 1:15

The saying is sure and worthy of full acceptance: that Christ Jesus came into the world to save sinners—of whom I am the foremost.