Parallel Verses
King James 2000
For I give you good doctrine, forsake 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.
American Standard 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.
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, you children, the instruction of a father, and attend to know understanding. 2 For I give you good doctrine, forsake not my law. 3 For I was my father's son, tender and the only one in the sight of my mother.
Cross References
Deuteronomy 32:2
My teaching shall drop as the rain, my speech shall distil as the dew, as the small rain upon the tender herb, and as the showers upon the grass:
Job 33:3
My words shall be of the uprightness of my heart: and my lips shall utter knowledge clearly.
1 Chronicles 28:9
And you, Solomon my son, know you the God of your father, and serve him with a perfect heart and with a willing mind: for the LORD searches all hearts, and understands all the imaginations of the thoughts: if you seek him, he will be found of you; but if you forsake him, he will cast you off forever.
2 Chronicles 7:19
But if you 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 you have said, My doctrine is pure, and I am clean in your eyes.
Psalm 49:1-3
[To the Chief Musician. A Psalm of the sons of Korah.] Hear this, all you people; give ear, all you inhabitants of the world:
Psalm 89:30-32
If his children forsake my law, and walk not in my judgments;
Proverbs 8:6-9
Hear; for I will speak of excellent things; and from the opening of my lips shall come right things.
Proverbs 22:20-21
Have not I written to you excellent things in counsels and knowledge,
John 7:16-17
Jesus answered them, and said, My doctrine is not mine, but his that sent me.
1 Timothy 4:6
If you put the brethren in remembrance of these things, you shall be a good minister of Jesus Christ, nourished up in the words of faith and of good doctrine, which you have attained.
Titus 1:9
Holding fast the faithful word as he has been taught, that he may be able by sound doctrine both to exhort and to refute the opposition.