Proverbs 4:2 - Revised Standard Version (RSV-CI)

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

More versions

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, Solomon my son, know the God of your father, and serve him with a whole heart and with a willing mind; for the Lord searches all hearts, and understands every plan and thought. If you seek him, he will be found by you; but if you forsake him, he will cast you off for ever.

2 Chronicles 7:19

“But if you turn aside 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

For you say, ‘My doctrine is pure, and I am clean in God's eyes.’

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 thy precepts.

Proverbs 3:1

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

Jeremiah 35:8

We have obeyed the voice of Jonadab the son of Rechab, our father, 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 as the rain, my speech distil as the dew, as the gentle rain upon the tender grass, and as the showers upon the herb.

1 Timothy 4:6

If you put these instructions before the brethren, you will be a good minister of Christ Jesus, nourished on the words of the faith and of the good doctrine which you have followed.

Titus 1:9

he must hold firm to the sure word as taught, so that he may be able to give instruction in sound doctrine and also to confute those who contradict it.