Lectionary Calendar
Saturday, May 17th, 2025
the Fourth Week after Easter
Attention!
For 10¢ a day you can enjoy StudyLight.org ads
free while helping to build churches and support pastors in Uganda.
Click here to learn more!

Read the Bible

Complete Jewish Bible

Proverbs 4:2

for I am giving you good advice; so don't abandon my teaching.

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.
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.
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 Listen, children, to a father's instruction; pay attention, in order to gain insight; 2 for I am giving you good advice; so don't abandon my teaching. 3 For I too was once a child to my father; and my mother, too, thought of me as her special darling. 4 He too taught me; he said to me, "Let your heart treasure my words; keep my commands, and live; 5 gain wisdom, gain insight; don't forget or turn from the words I am saying. 6 Don't abandon [wisdom]; then she will preserve you; love her, and she will protect you. 7 The beginning of wisdom is: get wisdom! And along with all your getting, get insight! 8 Cherish her, and she will exalt you; embrace her, and she will bring you honor; 9 she will give your head a garland of grace, bestow on you a crown of glory." 10 Listen, my son, receive what I say, and the years of your life will be 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 Adonai , God, sent him out of the garden of ‘Eden to cultivate the ground from which he was taken.
Genesis 4:25
Adam again had sexual relations with his wife, and she gave birth to a son whom she named Shet [granted], "For God has granted me another seed in place of Hevel, since Kayin killed him."
Genesis 4:26
To Shet too was born a son, whom he called Enosh. That is when people began to call on the name of Adonai .
Genesis 9:20
Noach, a farmer, was the first to plant a vineyard.
Genesis 37:13
Isra'el asked Yosef, "Aren't your brothers pasturing the sheep in Sh'khem? Come, I will send you to them." He answered, "Here I am."
Genesis 47:3
Pharaoh said to his brothers, "What is your occupation?" They answered Pharaoh, "Your servants are shepherds, both we and our ancestors,"
Exodus 3:1
(iv) Now Moshe was tending the sheep of Yitro his father-in-law, the priest of Midyan. Leading the flock to the far side of the desert, he came to the mountain of God, to Horev.
Psalms 127:3
Children too are a gift from Adonai ; the fruit of the womb is a reward.
Amos 7:15
But Adonai took me away from following the flock, and Adonai said to me, ‘Go, prophesy to my people Isra'el.'
Luke 11:51
from the blood of Hevel to the blood of Z'kharyah, who was killed between the altar and the Holy Place. Yes, I tell you, the responsibility for it will fall 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.


 
adsfree-icon
Ads FreeProfile