4Proverbs 4

1Hear, you children, the instruction of a father, and attend to know understanding.Select Proverbs 4:1

2For I give you good doctrine, forsake you not my law.Select Proverbs 4:2

3For I was my father’s son, tender and only beloved in the sight of my mother.Select Proverbs 4:3

4He taught me also, and said to me, Let your heart retain my words: keep my commandments, and live.Select Proverbs 4:4

5Get wisdom, get understanding: forget it not; neither decline from the words of my mouth.Select Proverbs 4:5

6Forsake her not, and she shall preserve you: love her, and she shall keep you.Select Proverbs 4:6

7Wisdom is the principal thing; therefore get wisdom: and with all your getting get understanding.Select Proverbs 4:7

8Exalt her, and she shall promote you: she shall bring you to honor, when you do embrace her.Select Proverbs 4:8

9She shall give to your head an ornament of grace: a crown of glory shall she deliver to you.Select Proverbs 4:9

10Hear, O my son, and receive my sayings; and the years of your life shall be many.Select Proverbs 4:10

11I have taught you in the way of wisdom; I have led you in right paths. ¶Select Proverbs 4:11

12When you go, your steps shall not be straitened; and when you run, you shall not stumble.Select Proverbs 4:12

13Take fast hold of instruction; let her not go: keep her; for she is your life. ¶Select Proverbs 4:13

14Enter not into the path of the wicked, and go not in the way of evil men.Select Proverbs 4:14

15Avoid it, pass not by it, turn from it, and pass away.Select Proverbs 4:15

16For they sleep not, except they have done mischief; and their sleep is taken away, unless they cause some to fall.Select Proverbs 4:16

17For they eat the bread of wickedness, and drink the wine of violence.Select Proverbs 4:17

18But the path of the just is as the shining light, that shines more and more to the perfect day.Select Proverbs 4:18

19The way of the wicked is as darkness: they know not at what they stumble. ¶Select Proverbs 4:19

20My son, attend to my words; incline your ear to my sayings.Select Proverbs 4:20

21Let them not depart from your eyes; keep them in the middle of your heart.Select Proverbs 4:21

22For they are life to those that find them, and health to all their flesh.Select Proverbs 4:22

23Keep your heart with all diligence; for out of it are the issues of life.Select Proverbs 4:23

24Put away from you a fraudulent mouth, and perverse lips put far from you.Select Proverbs 4:24

25Let your eyes look right on, and let your eyelids look straight before you.Select Proverbs 4:25

26Ponder the path of your feet, and let all your ways be established.Select Proverbs 4:26

27Turn not to the right hand nor to the left: remove your foot from evil.Select Proverbs 4:27