Proverbs 4:10
Listen, my son, and receive my words, and the years of your life will be many.
BSB
ASV
Hear, O my son, and receive my sayings; And the years of thy life shall be many.
KJV
Hear, O my son, and receive my sayings; and the years of thy life shall be many.
There is only one way of truth, but different paths from different places join it, just like tributaries flowing into a perennial river. So these are really inspired words: "Hear, my son, and accept my words, to have many paths of life. I am teaching you the ways of wisdom, so that its springs may never fail you"—that is, those which spurt from the same soil. He is not merely affirming that there is more than one path of salvation for a single righteous person. He adds that there are plenty of righteous people and plenty of routes for them.
Rare words are the text's own signal of a deliberate thread: the fewer the occurrences, the more the places it appears belong together.
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Follow this verse’s cross-references two steps out. Each card is a verse this one points to, and beneath it the verses that one points to in turn. Where several different paths arrive at the same place, that place is listed first: the text keeps returning to it. Every stop shows its own words, and every stop is a page.
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Proverbs 3:2for they will add length to your days, years and peace to your life.
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Children, obey your parents in the Lord, for this is right.
With long life I will satisfy him and show him My salvation.”
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1 Thessalonians 2:13And we continually thank God because, when you received the word of God that you heard from us, you accepted it not as the word of men, but as the true word of God—the…
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For the word of God is living and active. Sharper than any double-edged sword, it pierces even to dividing soul and spirit, joints and marrow. It judges the thoughts and intentions of the heart.
Consequently, faith comes by hearing, and hearing by the word of Christ.
For you have been born again, not of perishable seed, but of imperishable, through the living and enduring word of God.
but the word of the Lord stands forever.” And this is the word that was proclaimed to you.
Like newborn babies, crave pure spiritual milk, so that by it you may grow up in your salvation,
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Proverbs 3:16Long life is in her right hand; in her left hand are riches and honor.
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for they will add length to your days, years and peace to your life.
