Parallel Verses
American Standard Version
For I give you good doctrine; Forsake ye not my law.
New American Standard Bible
King James Version
For I give you good doctrine, forsake ye not my law.
Holman Bible
Don’t abandon my teaching.
International Standard Version
I give you sound teaching, so do not abandon my instruction.
A Conservative Version
For I give you good doctrine. Forsake ye not my law.
Amplified
For I give you good doctrine;
Do not
Bible in Basic English
For I give you good teaching; do not give up the knowledge you are getting from me.
Darby Translation
for I give you good doctrine: forsake ye not my law.
Julia Smith Translation
For I gave to you good instruction; ye shall not forsake my law.
King James 2000
For I give you good doctrine, forsake not my law.
Lexham Expanded Bible
For I have given you good instruction; do not forsake my teaching.
Modern King James verseion
For I give you good teaching; do not forsake my law.
Modern Spelling Tyndale-Coverdale
Yea I shall give you a good reward, if ye will not forsake my law.
NET Bible
Because I give you good instruction, do not forsake my teaching.
New Heart English Bible
for I give you sound learning. Do not forsake my law.
The Emphasized Bible
For, good teaching, have I given you, mine instruction, do not ye forsake.
Webster
For I give you good doctrine, forsake ye not my law.
World English Bible
for I give you sound learning. Don't forsake my law.
Youngs Literal Translation
For good learning I have given to you, My law forsake not.
Themes
divine Call » For worship of God » Wisdom's
Christ » Vine name applied to » Wisdom of
Interlinear
Nathan
References
Hastings
Word Count of 20 Translations in Proverbs 4:2
Verse Info
Context Readings
The Father's Wisdom
1 Hear, my'sons, the instruction of a father, And attend to know understanding: 2 For I give you good doctrine; Forsake ye not my law. 3 For I was a son unto my father, Tender and only beloved in the sight of my mother.
Cross References
Deuteronomy 32:2
My doctrine shall drop as the rain; My speech shall distil as the dew, As the small rain upon the tender grass, And as the showers upon the herb.
Job 33:3
My words'shall utter the uprightness of my heart; And that which my lips know they shall speak sincerely.
1 Chronicles 28:9
And thou, Solomon my son, know thou the God of thy father, and serve him with a perfect heart and with a willing mind; for Jehovah searcheth all hearts, and understandeth all the imaginations of the thoughts: if thou seek him, he will be found of thee; but if thou forsake him, he will cast thee off for ever.
2 Chronicles 7:19
But if ye turn away, and forsake my statutes and my commandments which I have set before you, and shall go and serve other gods, and worship them;
Job 11:4
For thou sayest, My doctrine is pure, And I am clean in thine eyes.
Psalm 49:1-3
Hear this, all ye peoples; Give ear, all ye inhabitants of the world,
Psalm 89:30-32
If his children forsake my law, And walk not in mine ordinances;
Proverbs 8:6-9
Hear, for I will speak excellent things; And the opening of my lips shall be right things.
Proverbs 22:20-21
Have not I written unto thee excellent things Of counsels and knowledge,
John 7:16-17
Jesus therefore answered them and said, My teaching is not mine, but his that sent me.
1 Timothy 4:6
If thou put the brethren in mind of these things, thou shalt be a good minister of Christ Jesus, nourished in the words of the faith, and of the good doctrine which thou hast followed until now :
Titus 1:9
holding to the faithful word which is according to the teaching, that he may be able to exhort in the sound doctrine, and to convict the gainsayers.