Proverbs 4:2

THE MESSAGE

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.

Young's Literal Translation
For good learning I have given to you, My law forsake not.

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

Contextual Overview

¹ Listen, friends, to some fatherly advice; sit up and take notice so you'll know how to live. I'm giving you good counsel; don't let it go in one ear and out the other. ³When I was a boy at my father's knee, the pride and joy of my mother, He would sit me down and drill me: "Take this to heart. Do what I tell you—live! Sell everything and buy Wisdom! Forage for Understanding! Don't forget one word! Don't deviate an inch! Never walk away from Wisdom—she guards your life; love her—she keeps her eye on you. Above all and before all, do this: Get Wisdom! Write this at the top of your list: Get Understanding! Throw your arms around her—believe me, you won't regret it; never let her go—she'll make your life glorious. She'll garland your life with grace, she'll festoon your days with beauty." ¹⁰Dear friend, take my advice; it will add years to your life. I'm writing out clear directions to Wisdom Way, I'm drawing a map to Righteous Road. I don't want you ending up in blind alleys, or wasting time making wrong turns. Hold tight to good advice; don't relax your grip. Guard it well—your life is at stake! Don't take Wicked Bypass; don't so much as set foot on that road. Stay clear of it; give it a wide berth. Make a detour and be on your way.

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
So God expelled them from the Garden of Eden and sent them to work the ground, the same dirt out of which they'd been made. He threw them out of the garden and stationed angel-cherubim and a revolving sword of fire east of it, guarding the path to the Tree-of-Life.

Genesis 4:25
Adam slept with his wife again. She had a son whom she named Seth. She said, "God has given me another child in place of Abel whom Cain killed." And then Seth had a son whom he named Enosh. That's when men and women began praying and worshiping in the name of God .

Genesis 9:20
Noah, a farmer, was the first to plant a vineyard. He drank from its wine, got drunk and passed out, naked in his tent. Ham, the father of Canaan, saw that his father was naked and told his two brothers who were outside the tent. Shem and Japheth took a cloak, held it between them from their shoulders, walked backward and covered their father's nakedness, keeping their faces turned away so they did not see their father's exposed body.

Exodus 3:1
Moses was shepherding the flock of Jethro, his father-in-law, the priest of Midian. He led the flock to the west end of the wilderness and came to the mountain of God, Horeb. The angel of God appeared to him in flames of fire blazing out of the middle of a bush. He looked. The bush was blazing away but it didn't burn up.

Psalms 127:3
Don't you see that children are God 's best gift? the fruit of the womb his generous legacy? Like a warrior's fistful of arrows are the children of a vigorous youth. Oh, how blessed are you parents, with your quivers full of children! Your enemies don't stand a chance against you; you'll sweep them right off your doorstep.

1 John 3:12
We must not be like Cain, who joined the Evil One and then killed his brother. And why did he kill him? Because he was deep in the practice of evil, while the acts of his brother were righteous. So don't be surprised, friends, when the world hates you. This has been going on a long time.

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.