Proverbs 4:2

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What does Proverbs 4:2 mean?

Proverbs 4:2 in the original Hebrew

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Cross references for Proverbs 4:2

• 1 Timothy 4:6

  If thou put the brethren in remembrance of these things, thou shalt be a good minister of Jesus Christ, nourished up in the words of faith and of good doctrine, whereunto thou hast attained.

• Titus 1:9

  Holding fast the faithful word as he hath been taught, that he may be able by sound doctrine both to exhort and to convince the gainsayers.

• Psalms 89:30-32

  If his children forsake my law, and walk not in my judgments; If they break my statutes, and keep not my commandments; Then will I visit their transgression with the rod, and their iniquity with stripes.

• Proverbs 8:6-9

  Hear; for I will speak of excellent things; and the opening of my lips shall be right things. For my mouth shall speak truth; and wickedness is an abomination to my lips. All the words of my mouth are in righteousness; there is nothing froward or perverse in them. They are all plain to him that understandeth, and right to them that find knowledge.

• Deuteronomy 32:2

  My doctrine shall drop as the rain, my speech shall distil as the dew, as the small rain upon the tender herb, and as the showers upon the grass:

• Job 33:3

  My words shall be of the uprightness of my heart: and my lips shall utter knowledge clearly.

• Job 11:4

  For thou hast said, My doctrine is pure, and I am clean in thine eyes.

• Psalms 49:1-3

  To the chief Musician, A Psalm for the sons of Korah. Hear this, all ye people; give ear, all ye inhabitants of the world: Both low and high, rich and poor, together. My mouth shall speak of wisdom; and the meditation of my heart shall be of understanding.

• Proverbs 22:20-21

  Have not I written to thee excellent things in counsels and knowledge, That I might make thee know the certainty of the words of truth; that thou mightest answer the words of truth to them that send unto thee?

• 2 Chronicles 7:19

  But if ye turn away, and forsake my statutes and my commandments, which I have set before you, and shall go and serve other gods, and worship them;

• 1 Chronicles 28:9

  And thou, Solomon my son, know thou the God of thy father, and serve him with a perfect heart and with a willing mind: for the Lord searcheth all hearts, and understandeth all the imaginations of the thoughts: if thou seek him, he will be found of thee; but if thou forsake him, he will cast thee off for ever.

• John 7:16-17

  Jesus answered them, and said, My doctrine is not mine, but his that sent me. If any man will do his will, he shall know of the doctrine, whether it be of God, or whether I speak of myself.

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Context

• Proverbs 4:1

  Hear, ye children, the instruction of a father, and attend to know understanding.

• Proverbs 4:2

  For I give you good doctrine, forsake ye not my law.

• Proverbs 4:3

  For I was my father’s son, tender and only beloved in the sight of my mother.

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