Proverbs 4:1-8 ▼

1 Heare (O ye children) the fatherly exortacio, & take good hede, that ye maye lerne wysdome.

2 Yee I shal geue you a good rewarde, yf ye wil not forsake my lawe.

3 For when I myself was my fathers deare sonne, and tenderly beloued of my mother,

4 he taught me also, sayenge: let thine herte receaue my wordes, kepe my commaundementes, and thou shalt lyue.

5 Get the wysdome, get the vnderstondinge, forget not ye wordes of my mouth, & shreke not from them.

6 Forsake her not, and she shal preserue the: loue her, and she shal kepe the.

7 The chefe poynte of wysdome is, that thou be wyllynge to opteyne wysdome, and before all thy goodes to get the vnderstondynge.

8 Make moch of her, and she shal promote the: Yee yf thou embracest her, she shal brynge the vnto honoure.