for I give you sound learning. Don’t forsake my law.
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for I give you sound learning. Don’t forsake my law.
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For I give you good doctrine, forsake ye not my law.
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For I give you good doctrine; forsake ye not my teaching.
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Passages linked to Proverbs 4:2 in the Treasury of Scripture Knowledge, ordered by reader-vote popularity; verse text shown in World English Bible.
- 1 Timothy 4:6 If you instruct the brothers of these things, you will be a good servant of Christ Jesus, nourished in the words of the faith, and of the good doctrine which you have followed.
- Deuteronomy 32:2 My doctrine will drop as the rain. My speech will condense as the dew, as the misty rain on the tender grass, as the showers on the herb.
- Titus 1:9 holding to the faithful word which is according to the teaching, that he may be able to exhort in the sound doctrine, and to convict those who contradict him.
- Job 33:3 My words will utter the uprightness of my heart. That which my lips know they will speak sincerely.
- Psalms 89:30-32 If his children forsake my law, and don’t walk in my ordinances; if they break my statutes, and don’t keep my commandments; then I will punish their sin with the rod, and their iniquity with stripes.
- Proverbs 8:6-9 Hear, for I will speak excellent things. The opening of my lips is for right things. For my mouth speaks truth. Wickedness is an abomination to my lips. All the words of my mouth are in righteousness. There is nothing crooked or perverse in them. They are all plain to him who understands, right to those who find knowledge.
- John 7:16-17 Jesus therefore answered them, “My teaching is not mine, but his who sent me. If anyone desires to do his will, he will know about the teaching, whether it is from God, or if I am speaking from myself.
- 1 Chronicles 28:9 You, Solomon my son, know the God of your father, and serve him with a perfect heart and with a willing mind; for Yahweh searches all hearts, and understands all the imaginations of the thoughts. If you seek him, he will be found by you; but if you forsake him, he will cast you off forever.
- 2 Chronicles 7:19 But if you 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;
- Job 11:4 For you say, ‘My doctrine is pure. I am clean in your eyes.’
- Psalms 49:1-3 Hear this, all you peoples. Listen, all you inhabitants of the world, both low and high, rich and poor together. My mouth will speak words of wisdom. My heart will utter understanding.
- Proverbs 22:20-21 Haven’t I written to you thirty excellent things of counsel and knowledge, To teach you truth, reliable words, to give sound answers to the ones who sent you?
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John Trapp 1656 · Public Domain Pro 4:2 For I give you good doctrine, forsake…
Pro 4:2 For I give you good doctrine, forsake ye not my law.
Ver. 2. For I give you good doctrine.] The common cry is, "Who will show us any good?" and every man will lend both ears to a good bargain. The doctrine here delivered is good every way, whether you look to the author, matter, or effect of it, and is therefore worthy of all men to be received, as the Hebrew word {a} here used for doctrine importeth. The Vulgate renders it, Donum bonurn tribuam vobis: I will give you a good gift, even that good part that shall never be taken from you.
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{a} לקח a verbo רקח quod est accipere.
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Matthew Poole 1685 · Public Domain Good doctrine; not vain, or foolish, or false, or…
Good doctrine; not vain, or foolish, or false, or pernicious counsels, but such as are true and profitable.
My law; God’s law or commands, delivered to you by my mouth. See Poole "Pro 3:1".
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John Gill 1763 · Public Domain For I give you good doctrine,.... Whose author, matter,…
For I give you good doctrine,.... Whose author, matter, use, and tendency, are good, and therefore should be received; so the Gospel is called, Ti1 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.
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(o) "doctrinam meam", Junius & Tremellius, Piscator, Amama; "instructionem meam", Schultens.
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Albert Barnes 1834 · Public Domain Doctrine - Knowledge orally given and received.
Doctrine - Knowledge orally given and received.
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Daniel D. Whedon 1874 · Public Domain 2. Good doctrine — Better, a good taking; that…
2. Good doctrine — Better, a good taking; that is, what a pupil takes from a teacher — a good lesson.
My law — Or, direction; what I point out to you.
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The Pulpit Commentary 1880 · Public Domain For I give you good doctrine. This, while stating…
For I give you good doctrine. This, while stating the reason for the exhortation in the previous verse, signifies that what the teacher has given and is giving, he has received from his father. I give; nathati, literally, "I gave," is the kal perfect of nathan, "to give," but the perfect is here used for the present, as denoting not only a past action, but one that is still continuing (Gesenius, "Hebrews Gram.," 3). Good doctrine (lekakh tov). The doctrine or instruction is "good," not only intrinsically, but as to the source from which it was derived, and in its effects. Lekakh is, according to its root lakakh, "something which is received or taken." From the standpoint of the teacher it is that instruction which he had received of his father. With respect to his hearers it is the instruction which is communicated to them, and which they receive. (see on Pro_1:5) The LXX renders, dwron agayon ; similarly the Vulgate, donum bonum, "a good gift." Forsake ye not; al-taazovu, from azav, "to leave, forsake". (compare the corresponding phrase, al-tiltosh, from natash, "to leave, forsake," in Pro_1:8) Law (torah); as in Pro_1:8.
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Tyndale Open Study Notes 2022 · CC BY-SA 4.0 4:2 Wise people navigate life’s difficulties successfully because they…
4:2 Wise people navigate life’s difficulties successfully because they have heeded good guidance.
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