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Thursday, August 14th, 2025
the Week of Proper 14 / Ordinary 19
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The Darby Translation

Proverbs 4:2

for I give you good doctrine: forsake ye not my law.

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.
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 Hear, ye children, the instruction of a father, and attend to know intelligence; 2 for I give you good doctrine: forsake ye not my law. 3 For I was a son unto my father, tender and an only one in the sight of my mother. 4 And he taught me, and said unto me, Let thy heart retain my words; keep my commandments and live. 5 Get wisdom, get intelligence: forget [it] not; neither decline from the words of my mouth. 6 Forsake her not, and she shall keep thee; love her, and she shall preserve thee. 7 The beginning of wisdom [is], Get wisdom; and with all thy getting get intelligence. 8 Exalt her, and she shall promote thee; she shall bring thee to honour when thou dost embrace her. 9 She shall give to thy head a garland of grace; a crown of glory will she bestow upon thee. 10 Hear, my son, and receive my sayings, and the years of thy life shall be multiplied.

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 Jehovah Elohim sent him forth from the garden of Eden, to till the ground from which he was taken.
Genesis 4:25
And Adam knew his wife again, and she bore a son, and called his name Seth: … For God has appointed me another seed instead of Abel, because Cain has slain him.
Genesis 4:26
And to Seth, to him also was born a son; and he called his name Enosh. Then people began to call on the name of Jehovah.
Genesis 9:20
And Noah began [to be] a husbandman, and planted a vineyard.
Genesis 37:13
And Israel said to Joseph, Do not thy brethren feed [the flock] at Shechem? Come, that I may send thee to them. And he said to him, Here am I.
Genesis 47:3
And Pharaoh said to his brethren, What is your occupation? And they said to Pharaoh, Thy servants are shepherds, both we and our fathers.
Exodus 3:1
And Moses tended the flock of Jethro his father-in-law, the priest of Midian. And he led the flock behind the wilderness, and came to the mountain of God—to Horeb.
Psalms 127:3
Lo, children are an inheritance from Jehovah, [and] the fruit of the womb a reward.
Amos 7:15
And Jehovah took me as I followed the flock, and Jehovah said unto me, Go, prophesy unto my people Israel.
Luke 11:51
from the blood of Abel to the blood of Zacharias, who perished between the altar and the house; yea, I say to you, it shall be required of 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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