Parallel Verses
Lexham Expanded Bible
For I have given you good instruction; do not forsake my teaching.
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.
King James 2000
For I give you good doctrine, forsake not my law.
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 Children, listen [to the] instruction of a father, and be attentive [in order] to know insight. 2 For I have given you good instruction; do not forsake my teaching. 3 When I was a son to my father, tender and alone before my mother,
Cross References
Deuteronomy 32:2
May my teaching trickle like the dew, my words like rain showers on tender grass, and like spring showers on new growth.
Job 33:3
My words [declare] my heart's uprightness, and my lips sincerely speak {what my lips know}.
1 Chronicles 28:9
"And you, Solomon my son, know the God of your father and serve him with a whole heart and a willing mind, for Yahweh searches all hearts and understands every plan and [all] thoughts. If you seek him, he will be found by you, but if you abandon him, he will reject you forever.
2 Chronicles 7:19
"But if you turn yourselves away and forsake my ordinances and my commandments which I have given before you [all] and will go and serve other gods and bow down to them,
Job 11:4
For you say, 'My teaching [is] pure, and I am clean in your sight.'
Psalm 49:1-3
Hear this, all [you] peoples; give ear, all [you] inhabitants of [the] world,
Psalm 89:30-32
If his sons forsake my law and do not walk in my judgments,
Proverbs 8:6-9
Listen! For noble things I will speak, and upright things from the opening of my lips.
Proverbs 22:20-21
Have I not written for you thirty [sayings] with admonitions and knowledge?
John 7:16-17
So Jesus answered them and said, "My teaching is not mine, but [is] from the one who sent me.
1 Timothy 4:6
[By] teaching these [things] to the brothers, you will be a good servant of Christ Jesus, trained in the words of the faith and of the good teaching that you have followed faithfully.
Titus 1:9
holding fast to the faithful message according to the teaching, in order that he may be able both to exhort with sound instruction and to reprove those who speak against [it].