Passage Resources Hebrew/Greek Your Content
Previous Next
Add parallel Print Page Options Listen to Proverbs 4:1-3
Close ESV

Proverbs 4:1-3
English Standard Version

A Father's Wise Instruction

4 (A)Hear, O sons, a father's instruction,
    and be attentive, that you may (B)gain[a] insight,
2 for I give you good (C)precepts;
    do not forsake my teaching.
3 When I was a son with my father,
    (D)tender, (E)the only one in the sight of my mother,

Read full chapter

Footnotes

  1. Proverbs 4:1 Hebrew know
Listen to Proverbs 4:1-3
Close NIV

Proverbs 4:1-3
New International Version

Get Wisdom at Any Cost

4 Listen, my sons,(A) to a father’s instruction;(B)
    pay attention and gain understanding.(C)
2 I give you sound learning,
    so do not forsake my teaching.
3 For I too was a son to my father,
    still tender, and cherished by my mother.

Read full chapter
Next
Proverbs 3
Proverbs 5
Next
dropdown
English Standard Version (ESV)

The ESV® Bible (The Holy Bible, English Standard Version®), © 2001 by Crossway, a publishing ministry of Good News Publishers. ESV Text Edition: 2025.

ESV Study Bible
New International Version (NIV)

Holy Bible, New International Version®, NIV® Copyright ©1973, 1978, 1984, 2011 by Biblica, Inc.® Used by permission. All rights reserved worldwide.

NIV Reverse Interlinear Bible: English to Hebrew and English to Greek. Copyright © 2019 by Zondervan.

July Summer Surge

More on the NIV