Proverbs 4:1-16 ▼

1 Heare, O ye children, the instruction of a father, and giue eare to learne vnderstanding.

2 For I doe giue you a good doctrine: therefore forsake yee not my lawe.

3 For I was my fathers sonne, tender and deare in the sight of my mother,

4 When he taught me, and sayde vnto me, Let thine heart holde fast my woordes: keepe my commandements, and thou shalt liue.

5 Get wisedom: get vnderstading: forget not, neither decline from the woordes of my mouth.

6 Forsake her not, and shee shall keepe thee: loue her and shee shall preserue thee.

7 Wisedome is the beginning: get wisedome therefore: and aboue all thy possession get vnderstanding.

8 Exalt her, and she shall exalt thee: she shall bring thee to honour, if thou embrace her.

9 She shal giue a comely ornamet vnto thine head, yea, she shal giue thee a crowne of glorie.

10 Heare, my sonne, & receiue my wordes, and the yeeres of thy life shalbe many.

11 I haue taught thee in ye way of wisedom, and led thee in the pathes of righteousnesse.

12 Whe thou goest, thy gate shal not be strait, and when thou runnest, thou shalt not fall.

13 Take holde of instruction, and leaue not: keepe her, for shee is thy life.

14 Enter not into the way of the wicked, and walke not in the way of euill men.

15 Auoide it, and goe not by it: turne from it, and passe by.

16 For they can not sleepe, except they haue done euill, and their sleepe departeth except they cause some to fall.