Proverbs 4:1 - Revised Version with Apocrypha 1895

¹ Hear, my sons, the instruction of a father, And attend to know understanding:

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King James Version (Oxford) 1769

¹ Hear, ye children, the instruction of a father, And attend to know understanding.

Amplified Bible - Classic Edition

¹ HEAR, MY sons, the instruction of a father, and pay attention in order to gain and to know intelligent discernment, comprehension, and interpretation [of spiritual matters].

American Standard Version (1901)

¹ Hear, my sons, the instruction of a father, And attend to know understanding:

Common English Bible

¹ Hear, children, fatherly instruction; pay attention to gain understanding.

Catholic Public Domain Version

¹ Listen, sons, to the discipline of a father, and pay attention, so that you may know prudence.

Douay-Rheims version of The Bible - 1752 version

¹ Hear, ye children, the instruction of a father, and attend that you may know prudence.

Proverbs 4:1 Cross References

Genesis 49:2

Assemble yourselves, and hear, ye sons of Jacob; And hearken unto Israel your father.

Psalm 34:11

Come, ye children, hearken unto me: I will teach you the fear of the LORD.

Proverbs 1:2

To know wisdom and instruction; to discern the words of understanding;

Proverbs 1:8

My son, hear the instruction of thy father, And forsake not the law of thy mother:

Proverbs 13:1

A wise son heareth his father's instruction: But a scorner heareth not rebuke.

Proverbs 19:20

Hear counsel, and receive instruction, That thou mayest be wise in thy latter end.

Proverbs 22:17

Incline thine ear, and hear the words of the wise, And apply thine heart unto my knowledge.

Proverbs 5:1

My son, attend unto my wisdom; Incline thine ear to my understanding:

Proverbs 7:4

Say unto wisdom, Thou art my sister; And call understanding thy kinswoman:

Jeremiah 35:8

And we have obeyed the voice of Jonadab the son of Rechab our father in all that he charged us, to drink no wine all our days, we, our wives, our sons, nor our daughters;

Hebrews 2:1

Therefore we ought to give the more earnest heed to the things that were heard, lest haply we drift away from them.