Parallel Verses
Bible in Basic English
Give ear, O my son, and let your heart be open to my sayings; and long life will be yours.
New American Standard Bible
And the
King James Version
Hear, O my son, and receive my sayings; and the years of thy life shall be many.
Holman Bible
and you will live many years.
International Standard Version
Listen, my son: accept my words, and you'll live a long, long time.
A Conservative Version
Hear, O my son, and receive my sayings, and the years of thy life shall be many.
American Standard Version
Hear, O my son, and receive my sayings; And the years of thy life shall be many.
Amplified
Hear, my son, and accept my sayings,
And the years of your life will be many.
Darby Translation
Hear, my son, and receive my sayings, and the years of thy life shall be multiplied.
Julia Smith Translation
Hear, my son, and receive my words, and the years of life shall be multiplied to thee.
King James 2000
Hear, O my son, and receive my sayings; and the years of your life shall be many.
Lexham Expanded Bible
Listen, my child, take my sayings, and [the] years of your life shall be great.
Modern King James verseion
Hear, O my son, and receive my sayings; and the years of your life shall be many.
Modern Spelling Tyndale-Coverdale
Hear, my son, and receive my words, that the years of thy life may be many.
NET Bible
Listen, my child, and accept my words, so that the years of your life will be many.
New Heart English Bible
Listen, my son, and receive my sayings. The years of your life will be many.
The Emphasized Bible
Hear, my son, and receive my sayings, and they will multiply to thee the years of life.
Webster
Hear, O my son, and receive my sayings; and the years of thy life shall be many.
World English Bible
Listen, my son, and receive my sayings. The years of your life will be many.
Youngs Literal Translation
Hear, my son, and receive my sayings, And years of life are multiplied to thee.
Themes
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Interlinear
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Word Count of 20 Translations in Proverbs 4:10
Verse Info
Context Readings
The Right Path
9 She will put a crown of grace on your head, giving you a head-dress of glory. 10 Give ear, O my son, and let your heart be open to my sayings; and long life will be yours. 11 I have given you teaching in the way of wisdom, guiding your steps in the straight way.
Cross References
Proverbs 3:2
For they will give you increase of days, years of life, and peace.
Deuteronomy 5:16
Give honour to your father and your mother, as you have been ordered by the Lord your God; so that your life may be long and all may be well for you in the land which the Lord your God is giving you.
Deuteronomy 6:2
So that living in the fear of the Lord your God, you may keep all his laws and his orders, which I give you: you and your son and your son's son, all the days of your life; and so that your life may be long.
Job 22:22
Be pleased to take teaching from his mouth, and let his words be stored up in your heart.
Proverbs 2:1
My son, if you will take my words to your heart, storing up my laws in your mind;
Proverbs 3:16
Long life is in her right hand, and in her left are wealth and honour.
Proverbs 8:10
Take my teaching, and not silver; get knowledge in place of the best gold.
Proverbs 19:20
Let your ear be open to suggestion and take teaching, so that at the end you may be wise.
Jeremiah 9:20
But even now, give ear to the word of the Lord, O you women; let your ears be open to the word of his mouth, training your daughters to give cries of sorrow, everyone teaching her neighbour a song of grief.
John 3:32-33
He gives witness of what he has seen and of what has come to his ears; and no man takes his witness as true.
1 Thessalonians 2:13
And for this cause we still give praise to God, that, when the word came to your ears through us, you took it, not as the word of man, but, as it truly is, the word of God, which has living power in you who have faith.
1 Timothy 1:15
It is a true saying, in which all may put their faith, that Christ Jesus came into the world to give salvation to sinners, of whom I am the chief: