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Proverbs 19:27

If you stop listening to instruction, my child, you will stray from the words of knowledge.

Bible Study Resources

Concordances:

- Nave's Topical Bible - Minister, Christian;   Temptation;   Young Men;   The Topic Concordance - Instruction;   Torrey's Topical Textbook - Alliance and Society with the Enemies of God;  

Dictionaries:

- Charles Buck Theological Dictionary - Pardon;   Holman Bible Dictionary - Ignorance;   Proverbs, Book of;   Hastings' Dictionary of the New Testament - Ditch ;  

Parallel Translations

New Living Translation
If you stop listening to instruction, my child, you will turn your back on knowledge.
Update Bible Version
Cease, my son, to hear instruction [Only] to err from the words of knowledge.
New Century Version
Don't stop listening to correction, my child, or you will forget what you have already learned.
Webster's Bible Translation
Cease, my son, to hear the instruction [that causeth] to err from the words of knowledge.
World English Bible
Stop, my son, listening to instruction, And you will stray from the words of knowledge.
Amplified Bible
Cease listening, my son, to instruction and discipline And you will stray from the words of knowledge.
English Standard Version
Cease to hear instruction, my son, and you will stray from the words of knowledge.
Wycliffe Bible (1395)
Sone, ceesse thou not to here techyng; and knowe thou the wordis of kunnyng.
English Revised Version
Cease, my son, to hear instruction only to err from the words of knowledge.
Berean Standard Bible
If you cease to hear instruction, my son, you will stray from the words of knowledge.
Contemporary English Version
If you stop learning, you will forget what you already know.
American Standard Version
Cease, my son, to hear instruction Only to err from the words of knowledge.
Bible in Basic English
A son who no longer gives attention to teaching is turned away from the words of knowledge.
Complete Jewish Bible
My son, if you stop heeding discipline, you will stray from the principles of knowledge.
Darby Translation
Cease, my son, to hear the instruction which causeth to stray from the words of knowledge.
Easy-to-Read Version
My son, if you stop listening to instructions, you will keep making stupid mistakes.
JPS Old Testament (1917)
Cease, my son, to hear the instruction that causeth to err from the words of knowledge.
King James Version (1611)
Cease, my sonne, to heare the instruction, that causeth to erre from the words of knowledge.
New Life Bible
My son, stop listening to teaching that will cause you to turn away from the words of much learning.
New Revised Standard
Cease straying, my child, from the words of knowledge, in order that you may hear instruction.
Geneva Bible (1587)
My sonne, heare no more the instruction, that causeth to erre from ye words of knowledge.
George Lamsa Translation
Wait, my son, and hear the instruction, and do not forget the words of knowledge.
Good News Translation
My child, when you stop learning, you will soon neglect what you already know.
J.B. Rotherham Emphasized Bible
Cease, my son, to hear instruction that would cause thee to wander from the sayings of knowledge.
Douay-Rheims Bible
Cease not, O my son, to hear instruction, and be not ignorant of the words of knowledge.
Revised Standard Version
Cease, my son, to hear instruction only to stray from the words of knowledge.
Bishop's Bible (1568)
My sonne heare no more the doctrine that leadeth thee vnto errours from the wordes of vnderstanding.
Brenton's Septuagint (LXX)
A son who ceases to attend to the instruction of a father will cherish evil designs.
Christian Standard Bible®
If you stop listening to correction, my son,you will stray from the words of knowledge.
Hebrew Names Version
Stop, my son, listening to instruction, And you will stray from the words of knowledge.
King James Version
Cease, my son, to hear the instruction that causeth to err from the words of knowledge.
Lexham English Bible
Cease to listen to instruction, my child, and you will stray from sayings of knowledge.
Literal Translation
My son, cease to hear the chastening, and you will err from the words of knowledge.
Young's Literal Translation
Cease, my son, to hear instruction -- To err from sayings of knowledge.
Miles Coverdale Bible (1535)
My sonne, heare nomore the doctrine yt leadeth the awaye from the wordes of vnderstondinge.
THE MESSAGE
If you quit listening, dear child, and strike off on your own, you'll soon be out of your depth.
New American Standard Bible
Stop listening, my son, to discipline, And you will stray from the words of knowledge.
New King James Version
Cease listening to instruction, my son, And you will stray from the words of knowledge.
New American Standard Bible (1995)
Cease listening, my son, to discipline, And you will stray from the words of knowledge.
Legacy Standard Bible
Cease listening, my son, to discipline,And you will stray from the words of knowledge.

Contextual Overview

27 If you stop listening to instruction, my child, you will stray from the words of knowledge.

Bible Verse Review
  from Treasury of Scripure Knowledge

Proverbs 14:7, Deuteronomy 13:1-4, 1 Kings 22:22-28, Matthew 7:15, Matthew 16:6, Matthew 16:12, Mark 4:24, Mark 7:6-14, John 10:5, 2 Corinthians 11:13-15, Ephesians 4:14, 1 Timothy 4:7, 1 Timothy 6:3-5, 2 Peter 2:1, 2 Peter 2:2, 1 John 4:1, 2 John 1:10, Revelation 2:2

Reciprocal: Judges 18:14 - now therefore 2 Samuel 13:5 - Lay thee 2 Chronicles 10:13 - forsook 2 Chronicles 22:4 - they were his Jeremiah 23:16 - Hearken Ezekiel 13:19 - to slay Mark 8:15 - Take Mark 12:27 - ye James 5:19 - err

Cross-References

Genesis 19:22
Run there quickly, for I cannot do anything until you arrive there." (This incident explains why the town was called Zoar.)
Genesis 19:33
So that night they made their father drunk with wine, and the older daughter came and had sexual relations with her father. But he was not aware that she had sexual relations with him and then got up.
Psalms 5:3
Lord , in the morning you will hear me; in the morning I will present my case to you and then wait expectantly for an answer.
Habakkuk 2:1
I will stand at my watch post; I will remain stationed on the city wall. I will keep watching, so I can see what he says to me and can know how I should answer when he counters my argument.
Hebrews 2:1
Therefore we must pay closer attention to what we have heard, so that we do not drift away.

Gill's Notes on the Bible

Cease, my son, to hear the instruction,.... The counsel of bad men, or the doctrine of false teachers. The words are spoken either by Solomon to his son; or by Wisdom, that is, Christ, to everyone of his children, to beware of false prophets, and take heed what they hear; see Matthew 7:15; such as the doctrines of the church of Rome; concerning the Scriptures, forbidding the people to read them; setting unwritten traditions upon a level with them, and making the pope an infallible interpreter of them; concerning merit, works of supererogation, indulgences, pardons, penance, purgatory, c. such as the instruction of the Arians, Sabellians, Socinians, Pelagians, and Arminians, concerning the Trinity, the deity of Christ, his satisfaction, imputed righteousness, the power and purity of human nature, and man's free will

[that causeth] to err from the words of knowledge; the words of the living God, the Scriptures of truth; which communicate knowledge, and are profitable for instruction in righteousness; are the means of the true knowledge of God; that there is one, and that he is possessed of all perfections: particularly that he is gracious and merciful, and pardons all manner of sin; that he is in Christ, the God of all grace; that he is the God and Father of Christ, and the covenant God and Father of all his people in him; they give knowledge of his mind and will concerning the salvation of men, and of his ways and worship. The wholesome words of our Lord Jesus, the salutary doctrines of the Gospel, may be here meant; those words of grace, wisdom, and knowledge, which come from him, and give knowledge of his person, offices, relations, incarnation, and blessings of grace by him; from whence they are called the word of peace and reconciliation, the word of righteousness, the word of life, and the word of salvation. Now these are all words of knowledge; and are the means of a spiritual, experimental, and fiducial knowledge of Christ, which is preferable to all other knowledge, and even to everything in the world; and therefore care should be taken, and everything avoided that tends to cause to err from these words and doctrines, which convey, promote, and improve this knowledge. Jarchi and Aben Ezra transpose the words, thus;

"cease, my son, to err from the words of knowledge, to or that thou mayest hear instruction and the latter makes mention of such an interpretation, cease, my son, from the words of knowledge, if thou wouldest hear instruction, and after that err:''

that is, better never hear and know at all, than to turn from those doctrines and instructions; see 2 Peter 2:20.

Barnes' Notes on the Bible

literally, Cease, my son, to hear instruction, that thou mayest err from the words of knowledge; advice given ironically to do that to which his weakness leads him, with a clear knowledge of the evil to which he is drifting.

Clarke's Notes on the Bible

Verse Proverbs 19:27. Cease, my son — Hear nothing that would lead thee away from God and his truth.


 
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