Proverbs 4:2

Bishop's Bible

For I haue geuen you a good doctrine, forsake not ye my lawe.

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.

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

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.

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 Heare O ye chyldren a fatherly instruction, & take good heede, that ye may learne vnderstanding. ² For I haue geuen you a good doctrine, forsake not ye my lawe. ³ For when I my selfe was my fathers deare sonne, and tenderly beloued of my mother: ⁴ He taught me also and sayde vnto me, let thyne heart receaue my wordes, kepe my commaundementes and thou shalt liue. ⁵ Get thee wysdome, and get thee vnderstanding: forget not the wordes of my mouth, and shrinke not from them. ⁶ Forsake her not, and she shall preserue thee, loue her, and she shall kepe thee. ⁷ The chiefe poynt of wysdome, is to possesse wysdome: and before all thy goodes to get thee vnderstanding. ⁸ Make much of her, and she shall promote thee, yea if thou embrace her, she shall bryng thee vnto honour: ⁹ She shal beautifie thy head with manyfolde graces, and garnishe thee with a crowne of glory. ¹⁰ Heare my sonne, and receaue my wordes, and the yeres of thy life shalbe many.

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
Therefore the Lorde God sent hym foorth fro the garden of Eden, to worke the grounde whence he was taken.

Genesis 4:25
Adam knewe his wyfe agayne, and she bare a sonne, and called his name Seth: For God [sayde she] hath appoynted me another seede in steade of Habel whom Cain slewe.

Genesis 4:26
And vnto the same Seth also there was borne a sonne, and he called his name Enos: then began men to make inuocation in the name of the Lorde.

Genesis 9:20
Noah also began to be an husbandman, and planted a vineyarde.

Genesis 37:13
And Israel sayde vnto Ioseph: do not thy brethren kepe in Sichem? come, and I wyll sende thee to them.

Genesis 47:3
And Pharao sayd vnto his brethren: what is your occupation? And they aunswered Pharao: thy seruauntes are kepers of cattell, both we, and also our fathers.

Exodus 3:1
Moyses kept the sheepe of Iethro his father in lawe, priest of Madian: and he droue the flocke to the backesyde of the desert, aud came to the mountayne of God Horeb.

Psalms 127:3
Beholde, chyldren be the inheritage of God: and the fruite of the wombe is a rewarde.

Amos 7:15
And the Lorde toke me as I folowed the flocke, and the Lord sayde vnto me, Go, prophecie vnto my people Israel.

Luke 11:51
From the blood of Abel, vnto ye blood of Zacharie, whiche perished betwene the aulter & the temple: Ueryly I saye vnto you, it shalbe required of this nation.

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.