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Proverbs 4:13
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Hold on to instruction; don’t let go.Guard it, for it is your life.
Take firm hold of instruction. Don't let her go. Keep her, for she is your life.
Take fast hold of instruction; let her not go: keep her; for she is thy life.
Keep hold of instruction; do not let go; guard her, for she is your life.
Always remember what you have been taught, and don't let go of it. Keep all that you have learned; it is the most important thing in life.
Hold on to instruction, do not let it go; protect it, because it is your life.
Take hold of instruction; [actively seek it, grip it firmly and] do not let go. Guard her, for she is your life.
Take hold of instruction; do not let go. Guard her, for she is your life.
Take firm hold of instruction. Don't let her go. Keep her, for she is your life.
Take holde of instruction, and leaue not: keepe her, for shee is thy life.
Seize discipline; do not let go.Guard her, for she is your life.
Hold on to instruction; do not let go. Guard it, for it is your life.
Hold firmly to my teaching and never let go. It will mean life for you.
Hold fast to discipline, don't let it go; guard it, for it is your life.
Take fast hold of instruction, let [her] not go: keep her, for she is thy life.
Take fast hold of my instruction, and do not forsake her; keep her, for she is your life.
Always remember what you have learned. Your education is your life—guard it well.
Seize the instruction! Do not let go! Guard her, for she is your life.
Take fast hold of instruction, do not let her go; keep her, for she is your life.
Take fast holde of doctryne, let her not go: kepe her, for she is thy life.
Take fast hold of instruction; let her not go: Keep her; for she is thy life.
Take learning in your hands, do not let her go: keep her, for she is your life.
Take fast hold of instruction, let her not go; keep her, for she is thy life.
Take fast hold of instruction, let her not goe; keepe her, for she is thy life.
Take fast holde of doctrine, and let her not go: kepe her, for she is thy life.
Take hold of my instruction; let it not go, —but keep it for thyself for thy life.
Take fast hold of instruction; let her not go: keep her; for she is thy life.
Holde thou teching, and forsake it not; kepe thou it, for it is thi lijf.
Take fast hold of instruction; don't let her go: Keep her; for she is your life.
Take fast hold of instruction; let [her] not go: keep her; for she [is] thy life.
Take firm hold of instruction, do not let go; Keep her, for she is your life.
Take hold of my instructions; don't let them go. Guard them, for they are the key to life.
Take hold of teaching. Do not let go. Watch over her, for she is your life.
Keep hold of instruction; do not let go; guard her, for she is your life.
Take fast hold of correction, 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.
Keep hold of instruction, do not let go; guard her, for she is your life.
Lay hold on instruction, do not desist, Keep her, for she [is] thy life.
Take hold of instruction; do not let go. Guard her, for she is your life.
Contextual Overview
Bible Verse Review
from Treasury of Scripure Knowledge
Take: Proverbs 3:18, Proverbs 23:23, Acts 2:42, Acts 11:23, 1 Thessalonians 5:21, Hebrews 2:1, Revelation 2:13, Revelation 12:11
let: Genesis 32:26, Song of Solomon 3:4, Luke 24:27-29, John 4:39-42
she: Proverbs 3:22, Deuteronomy 32:47, Ecclesiastes 7:12, John 6:68
Reciprocal: Job 27:6 - I hold fast Proverbs 6:23 - the way Proverbs 7:2 - Keep Proverbs 10:17 - the way Isaiah 56:2 - layeth Jeremiah 6:8 - Be thou Jeremiah 8:5 - they hold John 4:40 - they 1 Corinthians 15:2 - keep in memory 2 Timothy 1:13 - Hold Hebrews 6:18 - lay
Cross-References
An evil man has no hope of escaping the darkness. There is a sword somewhere waiting to kill him.
The people were burned by the great heat. They cursed the name of God, who had control over these plagues. But they refused to change their hearts and lives and give glory to God.
They cursed the God of heaven because of their pain and the sores they had. But they refused to change their hearts and turn away from the evil things they did.
Giant hailstones fell on the people from the sky. These hailstones weighed almost 100 pounds each. People cursed God because of this plague of the hail. It was terrible.
Gill's Notes on the Bible
Take fast hold of instruction,.... Not the law, as Jarchi and Gersom interpret it; but the instruction of wisdom, the doctrine of Christ or the Gospel; see Proverbs 8:1; which is an instruction into the mind and will of God, concerning the salvation of men; into the grace of God, showing that salvation, in all its branches, is of pure grace; into the person and offices of Christ, and into the business of salvation through him; into the doctrines of peace, pardon, righteousness, and eternal life by him. This should be "taken fast hold of"; in order to which, men should take heed unto it, attentively hear it; they should come with a cordial affection to it, and an eager desire after it, or they will never lay fast hold on it; for taking fast hold, as it supposes a careful attention to the Gospel, so a reception of it in the love of it, and an eagerness to be possessed of it: such may be said to take fast hold on it, who receive it into their hearts, and not into their heads only; head knowledge of the Gospel instruction is not hold fast enough, it must be heart knowledge of it; it is taken fast hold on when it is mixed with faith when heard; when it is digested and incorporated as it were into men, and becomes the ingrafted word; when men are led experimentally and practically into it, and are not hearers only, but doers of it; and, being thus taken fast hold of,
let [her] not go; the instruction of wisdom, or the Gospel of Christ; do not drop it, nor depart from it, nor waver about it; nor be languid in a profession of it, nor indifferent to it: "be not remiss" x, as the word signifies; or let not thine hand be remiss, or let not thine hand go; having, as it were with both hands, took fast hold of the Gospel, hold it fast, neither drop it through negligence and carelessness, nor suffer it to be taken from thee by fraud or force;
keep her, for she [is] thy life; which may be understood either of the Gospel, Wisdom's instruction, which should be kept as a rich treasure, and not parted with at any rate; since it is the means of quickening dead sinners; of showing sensible ones the way of life by Christ; of producing faith in them, by which they live upon him; and of maintaining and supporting the spiritual life in them, and of reviving and comforting them under the most drooping and afflictive circumstances; a man would as soon part with his life surely as part with this! Or else, seeing the feminine gender is here used, which does not agree with the word translated "instruction", but with "wisdom", mentioned Proverbs 4:11; so Aben Ezra; therefore Christ may be here meant, who is to be kept as the pearl of great price, being more precious than rubies and all desirable things, and especially since he is the "life" of his people: he is the author and maintainer of their spiritual life; he is their life itself, it is hid with him; and because he lives, they live also: all the comforts and supplies of life are from him, and he is their eternal life; it is given through him and by him, and ties greatly in the enjoyment of him.
x ×× ×ª×¨×£ "ne remittas", Tigurine version, Mercerus, Gejerus, Michaelis.
Barnes' Notes on the Bible
The counsel which has come to him, in substance, from his father. Compare it with 2 Samuel 23:2 etc.; 1 Chronicles 28:9; 1 Chronicles 29:17; Psalms 15:1-5; Psalms 24:1-10; Psalms 37:0.
Proverbs 4:7
Or, âThe beginning of wisdom is - get wisdom.â To seek is to find, to desire is to obtain.
Proverbs 4:12
The ever-recurring parable of the journey of life. In the way of wisdom the path is clear and open, obstacles disappear; in the quickest activity (âwhen thou runnestâ) there is no risk of falling.
Proverbs 4:13
She is thy life - Another parallel between personified Wisdom in this book and the Incarnate Wisdom in John 1:4.
Proverbs 4:16
A fearful stage of debasement. Sin is the condition without which there can be no repose.
Proverbs 4:17
i. e., Bread and wine gained by unjust deeds. Compare Amos 2:8. A less probable interpretation is, âThey eat wickedness as bread, and drink violence as wine.â Compare Job 15:16; Job 34:7.
Proverbs 4:18
Shining ... shineth - The two Hebrew words are different; the first having the sense of bright or clear. The beauty of a cloudless sunshine growing on, shining as it goes, to the full and perfect day, is chosen as the fittest figure of the ever increasing brightness of the good manâs life. Compare the marginal reference.
Proverbs 4:19
Compare our Lordâs teaching John 11:10; John 12:35.
Proverbs 4:20
The teacher speaks again in his own person.
Clarke's Notes on the Bible
Verse Proverbs 4:13. Take fast hold — ×××ק hachazek, seize it strongly, and keep the hold; and do this as for life. Learn all thou canst, retain what thou hast learnt, and keep the reason continually in view - it is for thy life.
