Proverbs 4:2 - New Revised Standard Version Updated Edition 2021

² for I give you good precepts: do not forsake my teaching.

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King James Version (Oxford) 1769

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

Amplified Bible - Classic Edition

² For I give you good doctrine [what is to be received]; do not forsake my teaching.

American Standard Version (1901)

² For I give you good doctrine; Forsake ye not my law.

Common English Bible

² I’ll teach you well. Don’t abandon my instruction.

Catholic Public Domain Version

² I will bestow upon you a good gift. Do not relinquish my law.

Douay-Rheims version of The Bible - 1752 version

² I will give you a good gift, forsake not my law.

Proverbs 4:2 Cross References

1 Chronicles 28:9

“And you, my son Solomon, know the God of your father, and serve him with single mind and willing heart, for the Lord searches every mind and understands every plan and thought. If you seek him, he will be found by you, but if you forsake him, he will abandon you forever.

2 Chronicles 7:19

“But if you turn aside and forsake my statutes and my commandments that I have set before you and go and serve other gods and worship them,

Job 11:4

For you say, ‘My conduct is pure, and I am clean in God’s sight.’

Job 33:3

My words declare the uprightness of my heart, and what my lips know they speak sincerely.

Psalm 119:87

They have almost made an end of me on earth, but I have not forsaken your precepts.

Proverbs 3:1

My child, do not forget my teaching, but let your heart keep my commandments,

Jeremiah 35:8

We have obeyed the charge of our ancestor Jonadab son of Rechab in all that he commanded us, to drink no wine all our days, ourselves, our wives, our sons, or our daughters,

Deuteronomy 32:2

May my teaching drop like the rain, my speech condense like the dew, like gentle rain on grass, like showers on new growth.

1 Timothy 4:6

If you put these instructions before the brothers and sisters, you will be a good servant of Christ Jesus, nourished on the words of the faith and of the sound teaching that you have followed.

Titus 1:9

holding tightly to the trustworthy word of the teaching, so that he may be able both to exhort with sound instruction and to refute those who contradict it.