Proverbs 4:2

Young's Literal Translation

For good learning I have given to you, My law forsake not.

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.

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.

New American Standard Bible (1995)
For I give you sound teaching; Do not abandon my instruction.

Contextual Overview

¹ Hear, ye sons, the instruction of a father, And give attention to know understanding. ² For good learning I have given to you, My law forsake not. ³ For, a son I have been to my father -- tender, And an only one before my mother. ⁴ And he directeth me, and he saith to me: `Let thy heart retain my words, Keep my commands, and live. ⁵ Get wisdom, get understanding, Do not forget, nor turn away From the sayings of my mouth. ⁶ Forsake her not, and she doth preserve thee, Love her, and she doth keep thee. ⁷ The first thing [is] wisdom -- get wisdom, And with all thy getting get understanding. ⁸ Exalt her, and she doth lift thee up, She honoureth thee, when thou dost embrace her. ⁹ She giveth to thy head a wreath of grace, A crown of beauty she doth give thee freely. ¹⁰ Hear, my son, and receive my sayings, And years of life [are] multiplied to thee.

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
Jehovah God sendeth him forth from the garden of Eden to serve the ground from which he hath been taken;

Genesis 4:25
And Adam again knoweth his wife, and she beareth a son, and calleth his name Seth, `for God hath appointed for me another seed instead of Abel:' for Cain had slain him.

Genesis 4:26
And to Seth, to him also a son hath been born, and he calleth his name Enos; then a beginning was made of preaching in the name of Jehovah.

Genesis 9:20
And Noah remaineth a man of the ground, and planteth a vineyard,

Genesis 37:13
and Israel saith unto Joseph, `Are not thy brethren feeding in Shechem? come, and I send thee unto them;' and he saith to him, `Here [am] I;'

Genesis 47:3
and Pharaoh saith unto his brethren, `What [are] your works?' and they say unto Pharaoh, `Thy servants [are] feeders of a flock, both we and our fathers;'

Exodus 3:1
And Moses hath been feeding the flock of Jethro his father-in-law, priest of Midian, and he leadeth the flock behind the wilderness, and cometh in unto the mount of God, to Horeb;

Psalms 127:3
Lo, an inheritance of Jehovah [are] sons, A reward [is] the fruit of the womb.

Amos 7:15
and Jehovah taketh me from after the flock, and Jehovah saith unto me, Go, prophesy unto My people Israel.

Luke 11:51
from the blood of Abel unto the blood of Zacharias, who perished between the altar and the house; yes, I say to you, It shall be required from 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.