Proverbs 4:2 KJV — MannaFest

Proverbs 4:2

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

KJV

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ASV

For I give you good doctrine; Forsake ye not my law.

WEB

For I give you sound teaching; do not abandon my directive.

YLT

For good learning I have given to you, My law forsake not.

DBT

for I give you good doctrine: forsake ye not my law.

About this book

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Proverbs — Gnomic wisdom — sayings, instructions, and the binary of wisdom vs. folly. Fear of the LORD as the integrative theme; the virtuous woman of Prov 31 as the book's closing portrait of wisdom embodied.

Author: Solomon principally (1:1; chs 10–22:16 and 25–29 explicitly); Agur (ch 30); Lemuel's mother (ch 31:1–9); editorial compilation by Hezekiah's men (25:1).
Date: Solomon's reign c. 970–930 BC; Hezekiah's editorial layer c. 715–687 BC.

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12 verses on the floor

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.
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:
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.
Proverbs 8:6–9
Hear; for I will speak of excellent things; and the opening of my lips shall be right things.
Psalms 89:30–32
If his children forsake my law, and walk not in my judgments;

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), but that law is founded upon doctrine, upon unquestionable principles of truth, upon good doctrine, which is not only faithful, but worthy of all acceptation.

Matthew Henry· Commentary on the Whole Bible, 1710puritan

We have reason to think that thousands have got more good by Solomon's proverbs than his own son did, to whom they seem to have been dedicated. Let all young people, in the days of their childhood and youth, take pains to get knowledge and grace, for that is their learning age, and then their minds are formed and seasoned.

Matthew Henry· Commentary on the Whole Bible, 1710puritan

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