Parallel Verses
Modern King James verseion
For I give you good teaching; do not forsake 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.
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 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 Sons, hear the instruction of a father, and listen in order to know understanding. 2 For I give you good teaching; do not forsake my law. 3 For I was my father's son, 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 drop down as the dew, as the small rain on the tender plant, and as the showers on the grass;
Job 33:3
my words shall be from my upright heart, and my lips will clearly speak knowledge.
1 Chronicles 28:9
And you, Solomon my son, know the God of your father and serve Him with a perfect heart and with a willing mind. For Jehovah searches all hearts and understands all the imaginations of the thoughts. If you seek Him, He will be found by 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 if you 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 for the sons of Korah. Hear this, all you peoples; give ear, all inhabitants of the world;
Psalm 89:30-32
If his children forsake My Law, and do not walk in My judgments;
Proverbs 8:6-9
Hear; for I will speak of excellent things; and the opening of my lips shall be right things.
Proverbs 22:20-21
Have I not 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 who sent Me.
1 Timothy 4:6
Having suggested these things to the brothers, you shall be a good minister of Jesus Christ, nourished up in the Words of Faith and by the good doctrine which you have followed.
Titus 1:9
holding fast the faithful Word according to the doctrine, that he may be able, by sound doctrine, both to exhort and to convict the gainsayers.