Proverbs:4 Parallel Bible - KJV DRV |
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| Proverbs 4:1 | Hear, ye children, the instruction of a father, and attend to know understanding. | Hear, ye children, the instruction of a father, and attend that you may know prudence. |
| Proverbs 4:2 | For I give you good doctrine, forsake ye not my law. | I will give you a good gift, forsake not my law. |
| Proverbs 4:3 | For I was my father's son, tender and only beloved in the sight of my mother. | For I also was my father's son, tender and as an only son in the sight of my mother: |
| Proverbs 4:4 | He taught me also, and said unto me, Let thine heart retain my words: keep my commandments, and live. | And he taught me, and said: Let thy heart receive my words, keep my commandments, and thou shalt live. |
| Proverbs 4:5 | Get wisdom, get understanding: forget it not; neither decline from the words of my mouth. | Get wisdom, get prudence: forget not, neither decline from the words of my mouth. |
| Proverbs 4:6 | Forsake her not, and she shall preserve thee: love her, and she shall keep thee. | Forsake her not, and she shall keep thee: love her, and she shall preserve thee. |
| Proverbs 4:7 | Wisdom is the principal thing; therefore get wisdom: and with all thy getting get understanding. | The beginning of wisdom, get wisdom, and with all thy possession purchase prudence. |
| Proverbs 4:8 | Exalt her, and she shall promote thee: she shall bring thee to honour, when thou dost embrace her. | Take hold on her, and she shall exalt thee: thou shalt be glorified by her, when thou shalt embrace her. |
| Proverbs 4:9 | She shall give to thine head an ornament of grace: a crown of glory shall she deliver to thee. | She shall give to thy head increase of graces, and protect thee with a noble crown. |
| Proverbs 4:10 | Hear, O my son, and receive my sayings; and the years of thy life shall be many. | Hear, O my son, and receive my words, that years of life may be multiplied to thee. |
| Proverbs 4:11 | I have taught thee in the way of wisdom; I have led thee in right paths. | I will shew thee the way of wisdom, I will lead thee by the paths of equity: |
| Proverbs 4:12 | When thou goest, thy steps shall not be straitened; and when thou runnest, thou shalt not stumble. | Which when thou shalt have entered, thy steps shall not be straitened, and when thou runnest thou shalt not meet a stumblingblock. |
| Proverbs 4:13 | Take fast hold of instruction; let her not go: keep her; for she is thy life. | Take hold on instruction, leave it not: keep it, because it is thy life. |
| Proverbs 4:14 | Enter not into the path of the wicked, and go not in the way of evil men. | Be not delighted in the paths of the wicked, neither let the way of evil men please thee. |
| Proverbs 4:15 | Avoid it, pass not by it, turn from it, and pass away. | Flee from it, pass not by it: go aside, and forsake it. |
| Proverbs 4:16 | For they sleep not, except they have done mischief; and their sleep is taken away, unless they cause some to fall. | For they sleep not except they have done evil: and their sleep is taken away unless they have made some to fall. |
| Proverbs 4:17 | For they eat the bread of wickedness, and drink the wine of violence. | They eat the bread of wickedness, and drink the wine of iniquity. |
| Proverbs 4:18 | But the path of the just is as the shining light, that shineth more and more unto the perfect day. | But the path of the just, as a shining light, goeth forwards and increaseth even to perfect day. |
| Proverbs 4:19 | The way of the wicked is as darkness: they know not at what they stumble. | The way of the wicked is darksome: they know not where they fall. |
| Proverbs 4:20 | My son, attend to my words; incline thine ear unto my sayings. | My son, hearken to my words, and incline thy ear to my sayings. |
| Proverbs 4:21 | Let them not depart from thine eyes; keep them in the midst of thine heart. | Let them not depart from thy eyes, keep them in the midst of thy heart: |
| Proverbs 4:22 | For they are life unto those that find them, and health to all their flesh. | For they are life to those that find them, and health to all flesh. |
| Proverbs 4:23 | Keep thy heart with all diligence; for out of it are the issues of life. | With all watchfulness keep thy heart, because life issueth out from it. |
| Proverbs 4:24 | Put away from thee a froward mouth, and perverse lips put far from thee. | Remove from thee a froward mouth, and let detracting lips be far from thee. |
| Proverbs 4:25 | Let thine eyes look right on, and let thine eyelids look straight before thee. | Let thy eyes look straight on, and let thy eyelids go before thy steps. |
| Proverbs 4:26 | Ponder the path of thy feet, and let all thy ways be established. | Make straight the path for thy feet, and all thy ways shall be established. |
| Proverbs 4:27 | Turn not to the right hand nor to the left: remove thy foot from evil. | Decline not to the right hand, nor to the left: turn away thy foot from evil. For the Lord knoweth the ways that are on the right hand: but those are perverse which are on the left hand. But he will make thy courses straight, he will bring forward thy ways in peace. |
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