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the Week of Proper 25 / Ordinary 30
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New King James Version

Proverbs 8:32

"Now therefore, listen to me, my children, For blessed are those who keep my ways.

Bible Study Resources

Concordances:

- Nave's Topical Bible - Children;   Jesus Continued;   Wisdom;   Thompson Chain Reference - Children;   Home;   Promises, Divine;   The Topic Concordance - Blessings;   Death;   Finding;   Hate;   Hearing;   Instruction;   Life;   Sin;   Wisdom;  

Dictionaries:

- Baker Evangelical Dictionary of Biblical Theology - Beatitudes;   Fausset Bible Dictionary - God;   Holman Bible Dictionary - Proverbs, Book of;   Hastings' Dictionary of the Bible - Ethics;   Proverbs, Book of;   Trinity;   Way;   Hastings' Dictionary of the New Testament - Alpha and Omega (2);   The Hawker's Poor Man's Concordance And Dictionary - Jeremiah;   Wisdom;   People's Dictionary of the Bible - Proverbs book of;  

Encyclopedias:

- International Standard Bible Encyclopedia - Proverbs, Book of;   Wisdom;  

Parallel Translations

New Living Translation
"And so, my children, listen to me, for all who follow my ways are joyful.
Update Bible Version
Now therefore, [my] sons, listen to me; For blessed are those that keep my ways.
New Century Version
"Now, my children, listen to me, because those who follow my ways are happy.
New English Translation
"So now, children, listen to me; blessed are those who keep my ways.
Webster's Bible Translation
Now therefore hearken to me, O ye children: for blessed [are they that] keep my ways.
World English Bible
"Now therefore, my sons, listen to me, For blessed are those who keep my ways.
Amplified Bible
"Now therefore, O sons, listen to me, For blessed [happy, prosperous, to be admired] are they who keep my ways.
English Standard Version
"And now, O sons, listen to me: blessed are those who keep my ways.
Wycliffe Bible (1395)
Now therfor, sones, here ye me; blessid ben thei that kepen my weies.
English Revised Version
Now therefore, my sons, hearken unto me: for blessed are they that keep my ways.
Berean Standard Bible
Now therefore, my sons, listen to me, for blessed are those who keep my ways.
Contemporary English Version
Pay attention, my children! Follow my advice, and you will be happy.
American Standard Version
Now therefore, my sons, hearken unto me; For blessed are they that keep my ways.
Bible in Basic English
Give ear to me then, my sons: for happy are those who keep my ways.
Complete Jewish Bible
"Therefore, children, listen to me: happy are those who keep my ways.
Darby Translation
And now, sons, hearken unto me, and blessed are they that keep my ways:
Easy-to-Read Version
"Now, children, listen to me. If you follow my ways, you will be happy too.
JPS Old Testament (1917)
Now therefore, ye children, hearken unto me; for happy are they that keep my ways.
King James Version (1611)
Nowe therefore hearken vnto me, O yee children: for blessed are they that keepe my wayes.
New Life Bible
"So now, O sons, listen to me, for happy are they who keep my ways.
New Revised Standard
"And now, my children, listen to me: happy are those who keep my ways.
Geneva Bible (1587)
Therefore nowe hearken, O children, vnto me: for blessed are they that keepe my wayes.
George Lamsa Translation
Now therefore hearken to me, O you children; for blessed is he who keeps my ways.
Good News Translation
"Now, young people, listen to me. Do as I say, and you will be happy.
J.B. Rotherham Emphasized Bible
Now, therefore, ye sons, hearken to me, for how happy are they who, to my ways, pay regard!
Douay-Rheims Bible
Now, therefore, ye children, hear me: blessed are they that keep my ways.
Revised Standard Version
And now, my sons, listen to me: happy are those who keep my ways.
Bishop's Bible (1568)
Therefore hearken vnto me: O ye chyldren, blessed are they that kepe my wayes.
Brenton's Septuagint (LXX)
Now then, my son, hear me: blessed is the man who shall hearken to me, and the mortal who shall keep my ways;
Christian Standard Bible®
“And now, sons, listen to me;those who keep my ways are happy.
Hebrew Names Version
"Now therefore, my sons, listen to me, For blessed are those who keep my ways.
King James Version
Now therefore hearken unto me, O ye children: for blessed are they that keep my ways.
Lexham English Bible
"And now, children, listen to me; happy are those who will keep my ways.
Literal Translation
And now listen to me, O sons, for blessed are those who keep my ways.
Young's Literal Translation
And now, ye sons, hearken to me, Yea, happy are they who keep my ways.
Miles Coverdale Bible (1535)
Therfore harken vnto me (o ye children) for blessed are they that kepe my wayes.
THE MESSAGE
"So, my dear friends, listen carefully; those who embrace these my ways are most blessed. Mark a life of discipline and live wisely; don't squander your precious life. Blessed the man, blessed the woman, who listens to me, awake and ready for me each morning, alert and responsive as I start my day's work. When you find me, you find life, real life, to say nothing of God 's good pleasure. But if you wrong me, you damage your very soul; when you reject me, you're flirting with death."
New American Standard Bible
"Now then, sons, listen to me, For blessed are those who keep my ways.
New American Standard Bible (1995)
"Now therefore, O sons, listen to me, For blessed are they who keep my ways.
Legacy Standard Bible
"So now, O sons, listen to me,For blessed are they who keep my ways.

Contextual Overview

32 "Now therefore, listen to me, my children, For blessed are those who keep my ways. 33 Hear instruction and be wise, And do not disdain it. 34 Blessed is the man who listens to me, Watching daily at my gates, Waiting at the posts of my doors. 35 For whoever finds me finds life, And obtains favor from the LORD; 36 But he who sins against me wrongs his own soul; All those who hate me love death."

Bible Verse Review
  from Treasury of Scripure Knowledge

for: Psalms 1:1-4, Psalms 119:1, Psalms 119:2, Psalms 128:1, Luke 11:28

Reciprocal: Genesis 49:2 - hearken 2 Samuel 22:22 - the ways Psalms 34:11 - Come Psalms 90:12 - that Proverbs 1:4 - to the Proverbs 1:33 - whoso Proverbs 3:13 - is the Proverbs 4:1 - attend Proverbs 5:7 - Hear Proverbs 7:24 - O Proverbs 12:1 - loveth Isaiah 48:12 - Hearken Isaiah 55:2 - Hearken Matthew 5:3 - Blessed Mark 4:3 - Hearken Luke 7:35 - General Acts 2:14 - hearken James 1:19 - let James 2:5 - Hearken 1 John 2:5 - whoso

Gill's Notes on the Bible

Now therefore hearken unto me, O ye children,.... Children of his and his Father, with whom his delights were; predestinated to the adoption of children; children of the covenant and promise, given to him as such in the covenant; for whom he became man, suffered and died, to gather together regenerated ones, by which they appear to be the children of God: these Wisdom here addresses in the most affectionate manner; Christ, having finished the account and description of himself, reassumes his former exhortation, Proverbs 8:5; and enforces it by the several particulars in the above description. From the consideration of his wisdom, riches, eternity, nearness to God, and his delights with men, he exhorts them to "hearken" to him, to his voice in the Gospel, and to what he says there; such who see themselves lost and perishing, the hungry and thirsty, the naked and weary, the disconsolate and afflicted, the poor and indigent; and also to his voice in his precepts and commands, to embrace his doctrines, and submit to his ordinances;

for blessed [are they that] keep my ways; it is a happiness to be in the ways of Christ, to be kept in them, and to keep them; Christ has promised and does vouchsafe his presence in them; there is a pleasure enjoyed in observing them; and though not for keeping, yet in keeping Christ's commands, there is great reward, Psalms 19:11.

Barnes' Notes on the Bible

The old exhortation with a new force. The counsels are no longer those of prudence and human experience, but of a Wisdom eternal as Yahweh, ordering all things.

Clarke's Notes on the Bible

Verse Proverbs 8:32. Now therefore — Since I delight so much in conveying instruction; since I have the happiness of the children of Adam so much at heart, hearken unto me; and this is for your own interest, for blessed are they who keep my ways.


 
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