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Proverbs Chapter 4

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PROVERBS

Proverbs 4

1Heare, O ye children, the instruction of a father, and giue eare to learne vnderstanding.
Hebrews 2:1, Hebrews 2:1, Psalms 34:11, Psalms 34:11, Proverbs 1:8
2For I doe giue you a good doctrine: therefore forsake yee not my lawe.
1 Timothy 4:6, 1 Timothy 4:6, Deuteronomy 32:2, Deuteronomy 32:2, Psalms 89:30
3For I was my fathers sonne, tender and deare in the sight of my mother,
1 Chronicles 22:5, 1 Chronicles 22:5, Romans 12:16, 1 Chronicles 29:1, Romans 12:16
4When he taught me, and sayde vnto me, Let thine heart holde fast my woordes: keepe my commandements, and thou shalt liue.
Proverbs 3:1, Proverbs 3:1, John 12:50, John 12:50, Proverbs 7:2
5Get wisedom: get vnderstading: forget not, neither decline from the woordes of my mouth.
James 1:5, James 1:5, Proverbs 3:13, Proverbs 3:18, Proverbs 3:13
6Forsake her not, and shee shall keepe thee: loue her and shee shall preserue thee.
2 Thessalonians 2:10, 2 Thessalonians 2:10, Proverbs 2:10, Proverbs 2:12, Ephesians 3:17
7Wisedome is the beginning: get wisedome therefore: and aboue all thy possession get vnderstanding.
Ecclesiastes 7:12, Ecclesiastes 7:12, Ecclesiastes 9:16, Ecclesiastes 9:18, Ecclesiastes 9:16
8Exalt her, and she shall exalt thee: she shall bring thee to honour, if thou embrace her.
Daniel 12:3, Daniel 12:3, 1 Samuel 2:30, 1 Samuel 2:30, Proverbs 3:35
9She shall giue a comely ornamet vnto thine head, yea, she shall giue thee a crowne of glorie.
Proverbs 1:9, Proverbs 1:9, 1 Peter 5:4, 1 Peter 5:4, Hebrews 2:7
10Heare, my sonne, and receiue my wordes, and the yeeres of thy life shalbe many.
Proverbs 3:2, 1 Thessalonians 2:13, Proverbs 3:2, 1 Thessalonians 2:13, Deuteronomy 6:2
11I haue taught thee in ye way of wisedom, and led thee in the pathes of righteousnesse.
Psalms 25:4, Psalms 25:5, Psalms 25:4, Psalms 25:5, Ecclesiastes 12:9
12Whe thou goest, thy gate shall not be strait, and when thou runnest, thou shalt not fall.
Proverbs 3:23, Proverbs 3:23, Psalms 18:36, Psalms 18:36, 1 Peter 2:8
13Take holde of instruction, and leaue not: keepe her, for shee is thy life.
Hebrews 2:1, Proverbs 3:18, Hebrews 2:1, Proverbs 3:18, Proverbs 23:23
14Enter not into the way of the wicked, and walke not in the way of euill men.
Psalms 1:1, Psalms 1:1, 1 Corinthians 15:33, 1 Corinthians 15:33, Proverbs 1:10
15Auoide it, and goe not by it: turne from it, and passe by.
Ephesians 5:11, Ephesians 5:11, 1 Thessalonians 5:22, Job 22:23, 1 Thessalonians 5:22
16For they can not sleepe, except they haue done euill, and their sleepe departeth except they cause some to fall.
Psalms 36:4, Psalms 36:4, Micah 2:1, Micah 2:1, Isaiah 57:20
17For they eate the breade of wickednesse, and drinke the wine of violence.
Micah 6:12, Psalms 14:4, Micah 6:12, Psalms 14:4, Matthew 23:13
18But the way of the righteous shineth as the light, that shineth more and more vnto the perfite day.
John 8:12, John 8:12, Job 11:17, Job 11:17, Daniel 12:3
19The way of the wicked is as the darkenes: they knowe not wherein they shall fall.
John 12:35, John 12:35, Isaiah 59:9, Isaiah 59:10, Isaiah 59:9
20My sonne, hearken vnto my wordes, incline thine eare vnto my sayings.
Proverbs 5:1, Proverbs 5:1, Isaiah 55:3, Isaiah 55:3, Proverbs 7:1
21Let them not depart from thine eyes, but keepe them in the middes of thine heart.
Proverbs 3:21, Proverbs 3:21, Proverbs 7:1, Proverbs 7:2, Proverbs 3:3
22For they are life vnto those that find them, and health vnto all their flesh.
Proverbs 4:10, Proverbs 12:18, Proverbs 4:10, Proverbs 12:18, Proverbs 3:8
23Keepe thine heart with all diligence: for thereout commeth life.
Luke 6:45, Luke 6:45, Matthew 12:34, Matthew 12:35, Matthew 12:34
24Put away from thee a froward mouth, and put wicked lippes farre from thee.
Proverbs 8:8, James 1:26, Proverbs 8:8, James 1:26, Ephesians 4:25
25Let thine eyes beholde the right, and let thine eyelids direct thy way before thee.
Psalms 119:37, Psalms 119:37, Matthew 6:22, Matthew 6:22, Job 31:1
26Ponder the path of thy feete, and let all thy waies be ordred aright.
Hebrews 12:13, Psalms 37:23, Hebrews 12:13, Psalms 37:23, Psalms 119:5
27Turne not to the right hande, nor to the left, but remooue thy foote from euill.
Deuteronomy 5:32, Deuteronomy 5:32, Joshua 1:7, Deuteronomy 28:14, Joshua 1:7

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