Proverbs 4:10 {11}
Good News Translation
Listen to me, my child. Take seriously what I am telling you, and you will live a long life.

New Revised Standard Version
Hear, my child, and accept my words, that the years of your life may be many.

Contemporary English Version
My child, if you listen and obey my teachings, you will live a long time.

New American Bible
Hear, my son, and receive my words, and the years of your life shall be many.

Douay-Rheims Bible
I will shew thee the way of wisdom, I will lead thee by the paths of equity:

Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

I will shew thee the way of wisdom, I will lead thee by the paths of equity:

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Proverbs 8:10 For wisdom is better than all the most precious things: and whatsoever may be desired cannot be compared to it.

Proverbs 19:20 Hear counsel, and receive instruction, that thou mayst be wise in thy latter end.

Job 22:22 Receive the law of his mouth, and lay up his words in thy heart.

Jeremiah 9:20 Hear therefore, ye women, the word of the Lord: and let your ears receive the word of his mouth: and teach your daughters wailing: and every one her neighbour mourning.

John 3:32,33 And what he hath seen and heard, that he testifieth: and no man receiveth his testimony. . . .

1 Thessalonians 2:13 Therefore, we also give thanks to God without ceasing: because, that when you had received of us the word of the hearing of God, you received it not as the word of men, but (as it is indeed) the word of God, who worketh in you that have believed.

1 Timothy 1:15 A faithful saying, and worthy of all acceptation, that Christ Jesus came into the world to save sinners, of whom I am the chief.

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Proverbs 3:2,16 Let not mercy aud truth leave thee, put them about thy neck, and write them in the tables of thy heart. . . .

Deuteronomy 5:16 Honour thy father and mother, as the Lord thy God hath commanded thee, that thou mayst live a long time, and it may be well with thee in the land, which the Lord thy God will give thee.

Deuteronomy 6:2 That thou mayst fear the Lord thy God, and keep all his commandments and precepts, which I command thee, and thy sons, and thy grandsons, all the days of thy life, that thy days may be prolonged.

Context
A Father's Instruction
9Hear, O my son, and receive my words, that years of life may be multiplied to thee. 10I will shew thee the way of wisdom, I will lead thee by the paths of equity:11Which when thou shalt have entered, thy steps shall not be straitened, and when thou runnest, thou shalt not meet a stumblingblock.…
Cross References
Deuteronomy 11:21
That thy days may be multiplied, and the days of thy children in the land which the Lord swore to thy fathers, that he would give them as long as the heaven hangeth over the earth.

Proverbs 2:1
That thy ear may hearken to wisdom: incline thy heart to know prudence.

Proverbs 3:2
Let not mercy aud truth leave thee, put them about thy neck, and write them in the tables of thy heart.

Proverbs 4:9
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