Receive instruction from his mouth, and lay up his words in your heart.
Proverbs 4:10 - English Standard Version 2016 Hear, my son, and accept my words, that the years of your life may be many. Tuilleadh leaganachaKing James Version (Oxford) 1769 Hear, O my son, and receive my sayings; And the years of thy life shall be many. Amplified Bible - Classic Edition Hear, O my son, and receive my sayings, and the years of your life shall be many. American Standard Version (1901) Hear, O my son, and receive my sayings; And the years of thy life shall be many. Common English Bible Listen, my son, and take in my speech, then the years of your life will be many. Catholic Public Domain Version 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 Hear, O my son, and receive my words, that years of life may be multiplied to thee. |
Receive instruction from his mouth, and lay up his words in your heart.
Listen to advice and accept instruction, that you may gain wisdom in the future.
My son, if you receive my words and treasure up my commandments with you,
Long life is in her right hand; in her left hand are riches and honor.
Take my instruction instead of silver, and knowledge rather than choice gold,
Hear, O women, the word of the Lord, and let your ear receive the word of his mouth; teach to your daughters a lament, and each to her neighbor a dirge.
that your days and the days of your children may be multiplied in the land that the Lord swore to your fathers to give them, as long as the heavens are above the earth.
“‘Honor your father and your mother, as the Lord your God commanded you, 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.
that you may fear the Lord your God, you and your son and your son’s son, by keeping all his statutes and his commandments, which I command you, all the days of your life, and that your days may be long.
And we also thank God constantly for this, that when you received the word of God, which you heard from us, you accepted it not as the word of men but as what it really is, the word of God, which is at work in you believers.
The saying is trustworthy and deserving of full acceptance, that Christ Jesus came into the world to save sinners, of whom I am the foremost.