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Treasury of Scripture Knowledge: Proverbs 4

Chapter 4

Hear, ye children, the instruction of a father, and attend to know understanding.

ye

1:8 6:20-23 Psalms 34:11 1 Thessalonians 2:11,12

attend

2:1-5 5:1 7:4 8:32-36 19:20 22:17 Hebrews 2:1

For I give you good doctrine, forsake ye not my law.

good

8:6-9 22:20,21 Deuteronomy 32:2 Job 33:3 Psalms 49:1-3 John 7:16,17 1 Timothy 4:6 Titus 1:9

forsake

1 Chronicles 28:9 2 Chronicles 7:19 Psalms 89:30-32

For I was my father's son, tender and only beloved in the sight of my mother.

2 Samuel 12:24,25 1 Kings 1:13-17 1 Chronicles 3:5 22:5 29:1 Jeremiah 10:23 Romans 12:16

He taught me also, and said unto me, Let thine heart retain my words: keep my commandments, and live.

He

22:6 Genesis 18:19 1 Chronicles 22:11-16 28:9 Ephesians 6:4 2 Timothy 1:5 3:15

Let

3:1 Deuteronomy 4:9 6:6 Psalms 119:11

keep

7:2 Leviticus 18:3-5 Isaiah 55:3 John 12:50 Hebrews 5:9

Get wisdom, get understanding: forget it not; neither decline from the words of my mouth.

Get wisdom

1:22,23 2:2-4 3:13-18 8:5 17:16 18:1 19:8 23:23 James 1:5

neither

2 Chronicles 34:2 Job 23:11 Psalms 44:18 119:51,157

Forsake her not, and she shall preserve thee: love her, and she shall keep thee.

love

21,22 2:10-12 Ephesians 3:17 2 Thessalonians 2:10

Wisdom is the principal thing; therefore get wisdom: and with all thy getting get understanding.

Wisdom is

Ecclesiastes 7:12 9:16-18 Matthew 13:44-46 Luke 10:42 Philippians 3:8

with

16:16 21:6 Psalms 49:16-20 Ecclesiastes 2:4-9 4:8 Mark 8:36,37 Luke 12:20

get understanding

Psalms 119:104

Exalt her, and she shall promote thee: she shall bring thee to honour, when thou dost embrace her.

3:35 22:4 1 Samuel 2:30 1 Kings 3:5-13 Daniel 12:3

She shall give to thine head an ornament of grace: a crown of glory shall she deliver to thee.

give

1:9 3:22 1 Timothy 2:9,10 1 Peter 3:4

a crown, etc

or, she shall compass thee with a crown of glory.

16:31 Isaiah 28:5 Hebrews 2:7-9 1 Peter 5:4 Revelation 3:21

Hear, O my son, and receive my sayings; and the years of thy life shall be many.

my

8:10 19:20 Job 22:22 Jeremiah 9:20 John 3:32,33 1 Thessalonians 2:13 1 Timothy 1:15

the

3:2,16 Deuteronomy 5:16 6:2

I have taught thee in the way of wisdom; I have led thee in right paths.

taught

4 Deuteronomy 4:5 1 Samuel 12:24 Ecclesiastes 12:9

led

8:6,9,20 Psalms 23:3 25:4,5 Acts 13:10

When thou goest, thy steps shall not be straitened; and when thou runnest, thou shalt not stumble.

thou goest

6:22 2 Samuel 22:37 Job 18:7,8 Psalms 18:36

thou shalt

19 3:23 Psalms 91:11,12 119:165 Jeremiah 31:9 John 11:9,10 Romans 9:32,33 1 Peter 2:8 1 John 2:10,11

Take fast hold of instruction; let her not go: keep her; for she is thy life.

Take

3:18 23:23 Acts 2:42 11:23 1 Thessalonians 5:21 Hebrews 2:1 Revelation 2:13 12:11

let

Genesis 32:26 Song of Solomon 3:4 Luke 24:27-29 John 4:39-42

she

3:22 Deuteronomy 32:47 Ecclesiastes 7:12 John 6:68

Enter not into the path of the wicked, and go not in the way of evil men.

1:10,15 2:11,12 9:6 13:20 Psalms 1:1 26:4,5 1 Corinthians 15:33

Avoid it, pass not by it, turn from it, and pass away.

5:8 6:5 Exodus 23:7 Job 11:14 22:23 Isaiah 33:15 Ephesians 5:11 1 Thessalonians 5:22

For they sleep not, except they have done mischief; and their sleep is taken away, unless they cause some to fall.

1:16 Psalms 36:4 Isaiah 57:20 Micah 2:1 Luke 22:66 John 18:28 2 Peter 2:14

For they eat the bread of wickedness, and drink the wine of violence.

9:17 20:17 Job 24:5,6 Psalms 14:4 Jeremiah 5:26-28 Ezekiel 22:25-29 Amos 8:4-6 Micah 3:5 6:12 Zephaniah 3:3 Matthew 23:14 James 5:4,5

But the path of the just is as the shining light, that shineth more and more unto the perfect day.

2 Samuel 23:4 Job 11:17 23:10 Psalms 84:7 Hosea 6:3 Zechariah 14:6,7 Matthew 5:14,16,45 John 8:12 2 Corinthians 3:18 Philippians 2:15 2 Peter 1:19 3:18 Revelation 21:23 22:5

The way of the wicked is as darkness: they know not at what they stumble.

1 Samuel 2:9 Job 5:14 12:25 18:5,6,18 Isaiah 59:9,10 Jeremiah 13:16 23:12 Matthew 7:23 15:14 John 12:35 1 John 2:11

My son, attend to my words; incline thine ear unto my sayings.

5:1 6:20,21 7:1 Psalms 78:1 90:12 Isaiah 55:3 Matthew 17:5

Let them not depart from thine eyes; keep them in the midst of thine heart.

depart

3:3,21

in the

2:1 Psalms 40:8 *marg:

For they are life unto those that find them, and health to all their flesh.

life

4,10

health

Heb. medicine.

3:8 *marg:; 12:18 Jeremiah 33:6

Keep thy heart with all diligence; for out of it are the issues of life.

Keep

22:5 23:19 28:26 Deuteronomy 4:9 Psalms 139:23,24 Jeremiah 17:9 Mark 14:38 Hebrews 12:15

with all diligence

Heb. above all keeping.

7 3:21 11:16 13:3 Ecclesiastes 5:13

for

Matthew 12:35 15:19 Mark 7:21-23 James 1:14,15

Put away from thee a froward mouth, and perverse lips put far from thee.

Put

Job 11:14 Ezekiel 18:31 Ephesians 4:25-31 Colossians 3:8 James 1:21,26 1 Peter 2:1

a, etc

Heb. frowardness of mouth, and perverseness of lips.

8:8,13 17:20 1 Timothy 6:5

Let thine eyes look right on, and let thine eyelids look straight before thee.

23:5,33 Job 31:1 Psalms 119:37 Matthew 6:22

Ponder the path of thy feet, and let all thy ways be established.

Ponder

5:6 Psalms 119:59 Ezekiel 18:28 Haggai 1:5,7 Ephesians 5:15,17

let all thy ways be established

or, all thy ways shall be ordered aright.

Psalms 37:23 40:2 1 Thessalonians 3:13 2 Thessalonians 3:3 1 Peter 5:10

Turn not to the right hand nor to the left: remove thy foot from evil.

Turn

Deuteronomy 5:32 12:32 28:14 Joshua 1:7

remove

16:17 Isaiah 1:16 Romans 12:9