Proverbs 4:20
My son, pay attention to my words; incline your ear to my sayings.
BSB
ASV
My son, attend to my words; Incline thine ear unto my sayings.
KJV
My son, attend to my words; incline thine ear unto my sayings.
Rare words are the text's own signal of a deliberate thread: the fewer the occurrences, the more the places it appears belong together.
The walk8
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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Isaiah 55:3Incline your ear and come to Me; listen, so that your soul may live. I will make with you an everlasting covenant—My loving devotion promised to David.
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I will make an everlasting covenant with them: I will never turn away from doing good to them, and I will put My fear in their hearts, so that they will never turn away…
Come to Me, all you who are weary and burdened, and I will give you rest.
My sheep listen to My voice; I know them, and they follow Me.
In fact, God raised Him from the dead, never to see decay. As He has said: ‘I will give you the holy and sure blessings promised to David.’
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Proverbs 5:1My son, pay attention to my wisdom; incline your ear to my insight,
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Incline your ear and hear the words of the wise—apply your mind to my knowledge—
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Psalms 78:1Give ear, O my people, to my instruction; listen to the words of my mouth.
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Pay attention to Me, My people, and listen to Me, My nation; for a law will go out from Me, and My justice will become a light to the nations; I will bring it…
Incline your ear and come to Me; listen, so that your soul may live. I will make with you an everlasting covenant—My loving devotion promised to David.
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Proverbs 7:1My son, keep my words and treasure my commandments within you.
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Listen, my son, to your father’s instruction, and do not forsake the teaching of your mother.
