Proverbs - Chapter 4 - American King James Version
- Hear, you children, the instruction of a father, and attend to know understanding.
- For I give you good doctrine, forsake you not my law.
- For I was my father' son, tender and only beloved in the sight of my mother.
- He taught me also, and said to me, Let your heart retain my words: keep my commandments, and live.
- Get wisdom, get understanding: forget it not; neither decline from the words of my mouth.
- Forsake her not, and she shall preserve you: love her, and she shall keep you.
- Wisdom is the principal thing; therefore get wisdom: and with all your getting get understanding.
- Exalt her, and she shall promote you: she shall bring you to honor, when you do embrace her.
- She shall give to your head an ornament of grace: a crown of glory shall she deliver to you.
- Hear, O my son, and receive my sayings; and the years of your life shall be many.
- I have taught you in the way of wisdom; I have led you in right paths.
- When you go, your steps shall not be straitened; and when you run, you shall not stumble.
- Take fast hold of instruction; let her not go: keep her; for she is your life.
- Enter not into the path of the wicked, and go not in the way of evil men.
- Avoid it, pass not by it, turn from it, and pass away.
- For they sleep not, except they have done mischief; and their sleep is taken away, unless they cause some to fall.
- For they eat the bread of wickedness, and drink the wine of violence.
- But the path of the just is as the shining light, that shines more and more to the perfect day.
- The way of the wicked is as darkness: they know not at what they stumble.
- My son, attend to my words; incline your ear to my sayings.
- Let them not depart from your eyes; keep them in the middle of your heart.
- For they are life to those that find them, and health to all their flesh.
- Keep your heart with all diligence; for out of it are the issues of life.
- Put away from you a fraudulent mouth, and perverse lips put far from you.
- Let your eyes look right on, and let your eyelids look straight before you.
- Ponder the path of your feet, and let all your ways be established.
- Turn not to the right hand nor to the left: remove your foot from evil.