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Proverbs 4:1-4 Parallel Bible Translations
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| 1 | Listen, sons, to a father’s discipline, and pay attention so that you may gain understanding, | Hear, O sons, a father’s instruction, and be attentive, that you may gain insight, | Listen, my sons, to a father’s instruction; pay attention and gain understanding. | |
| 2 | for I am giving you good instruction. Don’t abandon my teaching. | for I give you good precepts; do not forsake my teaching. | I give you sound learning, so do not forsake my teaching. | |
| 3 | When I was a son with my father, tender and precious to my mother, | When I was a son with my father, tender, the only one in the sight of my mother, | For I too was a son to my father, still tender, and cherished by my mother. | |
| 4 | he taught me and said, “Your heart must hold on to my words. Keep my commands and live. | he taught me and said to me, “Let your heart hold fast my words; keep my commandments, and live. | Then he taught me, and he said to me, “Take hold of my words with all your heart; keep my commands, and you will live. | |
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