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Proverbs 4:2

For I give you good teaching; do not give up the knowledge you are getting from me.

Bible Study Resources

Concordances:

- Nave's Topical Bible - Children;   Young Men;   Thompson Chain Reference - Call, Divine;   Doctrine;   God's;   Good;   Wisdom;   Wisdom-Folly;  

Dictionaries:

- Bridgeway Bible Dictionary - Education;   Holman Bible Dictionary - Proverbs, Book of;   Torah;   Hastings' Dictionary of the Bible - Doctrine;   Proverbs, Book of;   People's Dictionary of the Bible - Proverbs book of;  

Encyclopedias:

- International Standard Bible Encyclopedia - Doctrine;   Education;   The Jewish Encyclopedia - Nomism;  

Parallel Translations

Christian Standard Bible®
for I am giving you good instruction.Don’t abandon my teaching.
Hebrew Names Version
For I give you sound learning. Don't forsake my law.
King James Version
For I give you good doctrine, forsake ye not my law.
English Standard Version
for I give you good precepts; do not forsake my teaching.
New Century Version
What I am telling you is good, so do not forget what I teach you.
New English Translation
Because I give you good instruction, do not forsake my teaching.
Amplified Bible
For I give you good doctrine; Do not turn away from my instruction.
New American Standard Bible
For I give you good teaching; Do not abandon my instruction.
World English Bible
For I give you sound learning. Don't forsake my law.
Geneva Bible (1587)
For I doe giue you a good doctrine: therefore forsake yee not my lawe.
Legacy Standard Bible
For I give you sound learning;Do not forsake my instruction.
Berean Standard Bible
For I give you sound teaching; do not abandon my instruction.
Contemporary English Version
My advice is useful, so don't turn away.
Complete Jewish Bible
for I am giving you good advice; so don't abandon my teaching.
Darby Translation
for I give you good doctrine: forsake ye not my law.
Easy-to-Read Version
The advice I give is good, so don't ever forget what I teach you.
George Lamsa Translation
Because I give you good doctrine, do not forsake my law.
Good News Translation
What I am teaching you is good, so remember it all.
Lexham English Bible
For I have given you good instruction; do not forsake my teaching.
Literal Translation
for I give you good teaching; do not forsake my law.
Miles Coverdale Bible (1535)
Yee I shal geue you a good rewarde, yf ye wil not forsake my lawe.
American Standard Version
For I give you good doctrine; Forsake ye not my law.
JPS Old Testament (1917)
For I give you good doctrine; forsake ye not my teaching.
King James Version (1611)
For I giue you good doctrine: forsake you not my law.
Bishop's Bible (1568)
For I haue geuen you a good doctrine, forsake not ye my lawe.
Brenton's Septuagint (LXX)
For I give you a good gift; forsake ye not my law.
English Revised Version
For I give you good doctrine; forsake ye not my law.
Wycliffe Bible (1395)
Y schal yyue to you a good yifte; forsake ye not my lawe.
Update Bible Version
For I give you good doctrine; Don't forsake my law.
Webster's Bible Translation
For I give you good doctrine, forsake ye not my law.
New King James Version
For I give you good doctrine: Do not forsake my law.
New Living Translation
for I am giving you good guidance. Don't turn away from my instructions.
New Life Bible
For I give you good teaching. Do not turn away from it.
New Revised Standard
for I give you good precepts: do not forsake my teaching.
J.B. Rotherham Emphasized Bible
For, good teaching, have I given you, mine instruction, do not ye forsake.
Douay-Rheims Bible
I will give you a good gift, forsake not my law.
Revised Standard Version
for I give you good precepts: do not forsake my teaching.
Young's Literal Translation
For good learning I have given to you, My law forsake not.
New American Standard Bible (1995)
For I give you sound teaching; Do not abandon my instruction.

Contextual Overview

1 Give ear, my sons, to the teaching of a father; give attention so that you may have knowledge: 2 For I give you good teaching; do not give up the knowledge you are getting from me. 3 For I was a son to my father, a gentle and an only one to my mother. 4 And he gave me teaching, saying to me, Keep my words in your heart; keep my rules so that you may have life: 5 Get wisdom, get true knowledge; keep it in memory, do not be turned away from the words of my mouth. 6 Do not give her up, and she will keep you; give her your love, and she will make you safe. 7 The first sign of wisdom is to get wisdom; go, give all you have to get true knowledge. 8 Put her in a high place, and you will be lifted up by her; she will give you honour, when you give her your love. 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.

Bible Verse Review
  from Treasury of Scripure Knowledge

good: Proverbs 8:6-9, Proverbs 22:20, Proverbs 22:21, Deuteronomy 32:2, Job 33:3, Psalms 49:1-3, John 7:16, John 7:17, 1 Timothy 4:6, Titus 1:9

forsake: 1 Chronicles 28:9, 2 Chronicles 7:19, Psalms 89:30-32

Reciprocal: Job 33:33 - hearken Psalms 49:3 - mouth Jeremiah 35:8 - General

Cross-References

Genesis 3:23
So the Lord God sent him out of the garden of Eden to be a worker on the earth from which he was taken.
Genesis 4:25
And Adam had connection with his wife again, and she gave birth to a son to whom she gave the name of Seth: for she said, God has given me another seed in place of Abel, whom Cain put to death.
Genesis 4:26
And Seth had a son, and he gave him the name of Enosh: at this time men first made use of the name of the Lord in worship.
Genesis 9:20
In those days Noah became a farmer, and he made a vine-garden.
Genesis 37:13
And Israel said to Joseph, Are not your brothers with the flock in Shechem? come, I will send you to them. And he said to him, Here am I.
Genesis 47:3
And Pharaoh said to them, What is your business? And they said, Your servants are keepers of sheep, as our fathers were before us.
Exodus 3:1
Now Moses was looking after the flock of Jethro, his father-in-law, the priest of Midian: and he took the flock to the back of the waste land and came to Horeb, the mountain of God.
Psalms 127:3
See, sons are a heritage from the Lord; the fruit of the body is his reward.
Amos 7:15
And the Lord took me from the flock, and the Lord said to me, Go, be a prophet to my people Israel.
Luke 11:51
From the blood of Abel to the blood of Zachariah, who was put to death between the altar and the Temple. Yes, I say to you, It will come on this generation.

Gill's Notes on the Bible

For I give you good doctrine,.... Whose author, matter, use, and tendency, are good, and therefore should be received; so the Gospel is called, 1 Timothy 4:6; and no other is here meant: it is the doctrine concerning Wisdom or Christ, as the following verses show; which serves to exalt him, and makes for the good and welfare of immortal souls; and such is the doctrine of the Scriptures, of Christ and his apostles, even all the doctrines and truths of the Gospel;

forsake you not my law; or "doctrine" o; not the law given on Mount Sinai, as Gersom interprets it; but the doctrine of Christ, which goes out from Mount Zion: this the children of Wisdom should not neglect, relinquish, drop, or depart from; but should keep it, and abide by it.

o תורתי "doctrinam meam", Junius Tremellius, Piscator, Amama "instructionem meam", Schultens.

Barnes' Notes on the Bible

Doctrine - Knowledge orally given and received.


 
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