Proverbs 4:1 - New International Version (Anglicised)

¹ Listen, my sons, to a father’s instruction; pay attention and gain 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 Tagairtí Cros

Genesis 49:2

‘Assemble and listen, sons of Jacob; listen to your father Israel.

Psalm 34:11

Come, my children, listen to me; I will teach you the fear of the Lord.

Proverbs 1:2

for gaining wisdom and instruction; for understanding words of insight;

Proverbs 1:8

Listen, my son, to your father’s instruction and do not forsake your mother’s teaching.

Proverbs 13:1

A wise son heeds his father’s instruction, but a mocker does not respond to rebukes.

Proverbs 19:20

Listen to advice and accept discipline, and at the end you will be counted among the wise.

Proverbs 22:17

Pay attention and turn your ear to the sayings of the wise; apply your heart to what I teach,

Proverbs 5:1

My son, pay attention to my wisdom, turn your ear to my words of insight,

Proverbs 7:4

Say to wisdom, ‘You are my sister,’ and to insight, ‘You are my relative.’

Jeremiah 35:8

We have obeyed everything our forefather Jehonadab son of Rekab commanded us. Neither we nor our wives nor our sons and daughters have ever drunk wine

Hebrews 2:1

We must pay the most careful attention, therefore, to what we have heard, so that we do not drift away.