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Do as I tell you, and you will live. </title><link rel="canonical" href="https://biblehub.com/catholic/proverbs/4-4.htm" /><link rel="stylesheet" href="/15002new8.css" type="text/css" media="Screen" /></head><body><div id="fx"><table width="100%" border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" id="fx2"><tr><td><iframe width="100%" height="30" scrolling="no" src="../vmenus/proverbs/4-4.htm" align="left" frameborder="0"></iframe></td></tr></table></div><div id="blnk"></div><div align="center"><table width="100%" border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" class="maintable"><tr><td><div id="fx5"><table width="100%" border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" id="fx6"><tr><td><iframe width="100%" height="245" scrolling="no" src="/bmcc/proverbs/4-4.htm" frameborder="0"></iframe></td></tr></table></div></td></tr></table></div><div align="center"><table width="100%" border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" class="maintable3"><tr><td><table width="100%" border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" align="center" id="announce"><tr><td><div id="l1"><div id="breadcrumbs"><a href="/catholic/">Bible</a> > <a href="/gntd/proverbs/1.htm">Proverbs</a> > <a href="/gntd/proverbs/4.htm">Chapter 4</a> > Verse 4</div><div id="anc"><iframe src="/anc.htm" width="100%" height="27" scrolling="no" frameborder="0"></iframe></div><div id="anc2"><table width="100%" border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" align="center"><tr><td><iframe src="/anc2.htm" width="100%" height="27" scrolling="no" frameborder="0"></iframe></td></tr></table></div></div><div id="ad1"><table width="100%" border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" align="center"><tr><td><iframe src="/ad1.htm" width="100%" height="48" scrolling="no" frameborder="0"></iframe></td></tr></table></div></td></tr></table><div id="movebox2"><table border="0" align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0"><tr><td><div id="topheading"><a href="../proverbs/4-3.htm" title="Proverbs 4:3">◄</a> Proverbs 4:4 {5} <a href="../proverbs/4-5.htm" title="Proverbs 4:5">►</a></div></tr></table></div><div align="center" class="maintable2"><table border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" align="center"><tr><td><div id="leftbox"><div class="padleft"><div class="vheadingv"><b>Verse</b><a href="/nabre/proverbs/4.htm" class="clickchap" style="color:#552200" title="Click any translation name for full chapter">  (Click for Chapter)</a></div><div id="par"><span class="versiontext"><a href="/gntd/proverbs/4.htm">Good News Translation</a></span><br />my father would teach me. He would say, "Remember what I say and never forget it. Do as I tell you, and you will live. <p><span class="versiontext"><a href="/nrsvce/proverbs/4.htm">New Revised Standard Version</a></span><br />he taught me, and said to me, “Let your heart hold fast my words; keep my commandments, and live.<p><span class="versiontext"><a href="/cevd/proverbs/4.htm">Contemporary English Version</a></span><br />said to me: "If you follow my teachings and keep them in mind, you will live. <p><span class="versiontext"><a href="/nabre/proverbs/4.htm">New American Bible</a></span><br />He taught me and said to me: “Let your heart hold fast my words: keep my commands, and live! <p><span class="versiontext"><a href="/drbc/proverbs/4.htm">Douay-Rheims Bible</a></span><br />Get wisdom, get prudence: forget not, neither decline from the words of my mouth.<div class="vheading2">Treasury of Scripture Knowledge</div><p class="tsk2">Get wisdom, get prudence: forget not, neither decline from the words of my mouth.</p><p class="hdg">He</p><p class="tskverse"><a href="../proverbs/22-6.htm">Proverbs 22:6</a> It is a proverb: A young man according to his way, even when he is old, he will not depart from it.</p><p class="tskverse"><a href="../genesis/18-19.htm">Genesis 18:19</a> For I know that he will command his children, and his household after him, to keep the way of the Lord, and do judgment and justice: that for Abraham's sake, the Lord may bring to effect all the things he hath spoken unto him.</p><p class="tskverse"><a href="../1_chronicles/22-11.htm">1 Chronicles 22:11-16</a> Now then, my son, the Lord be with thee, and do thou prosper, and build the house to the Lord thy God, as he hath spoken of thee. . . . </p><p class="tskverse"><a href="../1_chronicles/28-9.htm">1 Chronicles 28:9</a> And thou my son Solomon, know the God of thy father, and serve him with a perfect heart, and a willing mind: for the Lord searcheth all hearts, and understandeth all the thoughts of minds. If thou seek him, thou shalt find him: but if thou forsake him, he will cast thee off for ever.</p><p class="tskverse"><a href="../ephesians/6-4.htm">Ephesians 6:4</a> And you, fathers, provoke not your children to anger: but bring them up in the discipline and correction of the Lord.</p><p class="tskverse"><a href="../2_timothy/1-5.htm">2 Timothy 1:5</a> Calling to mind that faith which is in thee unfeigned, which also dwelt first in thy grandmother Lois and in thy mother Eunice, and I am certain that in thee also.</p><p class="tskverse"><a href="../2_timothy/3-15.htm">2 Timothy 3:15</a> And because from thy infancy thou hast known the holy scriptures which can instruct thee to salvation by the faith which is in Christ Jesus.</p><p class="hdg">Let</p><p class="tskverse"><a href="../proverbs/3-1.htm">Proverbs 3:1</a> For they shall add to thee length of days, and years of life, and peace.</p><p class="tskverse"><a href="../deuteronomy/4-9.htm">Deuteronomy 4:9</a> Keep thyself therefore, and thy soul carefully. Forget not the words that thy eyes have seen, and let them not go out of thy heart all the days of thy life. Thou shalt teach them to thy sons and to thy grandsons,</p><p class="tskverse"><a href="../deuteronomy/6-6.htm">Deuteronomy 6:6</a> And these words which I command thee this day, shall be in thy heart:</p><p class="tskverse"><a href="../psalms/119-11.htm">Psalm 119:11</a> Thy words have I hidden in my heart, that I may not sin against thee.</p><p class="hdg">keep</p><p class="tskverse"><a href="../proverbs/7-2.htm">Proverbs 7:2</a> Bind it upon thy fingers, write it upon the tables of thy heart.</p><p class="tskverse"><a href="../leviticus/18-3.htm">Leviticus 18:3-5</a> You shall not do according to the custom of the land of Egypt, in which you dwelt: neither shall you act according to the manner of the country of Chanaan, into which I will bring you. Nor shall you walk in their ordinances. . . . </p><p class="tskverse"><a href="../isaiah/55-3.htm">Isaiah 55:3</a> Incline your ear and come to me: hear and your soul shall live, and I will make an everlasting covenant with you, the faithful mercies of David.</p><p class="tskverse"><a href="../john/12-50.htm">John 12:50</a> And I know that his commandment is life everlasting. The things therefore that I speak, even as the Father said unto me, so do I speak.</p><p class="tskverse"><a href="../hebrews/5-9.htm">Hebrews 5:9</a> And being consummated, he became, to all that obey him, the cause of eternal salvation:</p></div></div></div><div id="centbox"><div class="padcent"><div class="vheadingv"><b>Context</b></div><span class="hdg"><a href="/drbc/proverbs/4.htm">A Father's Instruction</a></span><br>…<span class="reftext">3</span>And he taught me, and said: Let thy heart receive my words, keep my commandments, and thou shalt live. <span class="reftext">4</span><span class="highl">Get wisdom, get prudence: forget not, neither decline from the words of my mouth.</span><span class="reftext">5</span>Forsake her not, and she shall keep thee: love her, and she shall preserve thee.…<div class="vheading2">Cross References</div><div id="crf"><span class="crossverse"><a href="../ephesians/6-4.htm">Ephesians 6:4</a></span><br />And you, fathers, provoke not your children to anger: but bring them up in the discipline and correction of the Lord.<span class="p"><br /><br /></span><span class="crossverse"><a href="../psalms/119-168.htm">Psalm 119:168</a></span><br />I have kept thy commandments and thy testimonies: because all my ways are in thy sight.<span class="p"><br /><br /></span><span class="crossverse"><a href="../proverbs/7-2.htm">Proverbs 7:2</a></span><br />Bind it upon thy fingers, write it upon the tables of thy heart.<span class="p"><br /><br /></span><span class="crossverse"><a href="../proverbs/23-26.htm">Proverbs 23:26</a></span><br />My son, give me thy heart: and let thy eyes keep my ways.<span class="p"><br /><br /></span></div></div></div><div id="mdd"><div align="center"><div class="bot2"><table align="center" width="100%"><tr><td></td></tr></table></div></div></div><div id="combox"><div class="padcom"><div class="vheading2">Jump to Previous</div><a href="/proverbs/3-1.htm">Commandments</a> <a href="/proverbs/3-1.htm">Commands</a> <a href="/psalms/25-12.htm">Directeth</a> <a href="/proverbs/3-18.htm">Fast</a> <a href="/proverbs/3-11.htm">Heart</a> <a href="/proverbs/3-18.htm">Hold</a> <a href="/proverbs/2-21.htm">Live</a> <a href="/job/20-20.htm">Retain</a> <a href="/proverbs/3-1.htm">Rules</a> <a href="/psalms/119-171.htm">Taught</a> <a href="/proverbs/4-2.htm">Teaching</a> <a href="/proverbs/3-12.htm">Words</a><div class="vheading2">Jump to Next</div><a href="/proverbs/7-1.htm">Commandments</a> <a href="/proverbs/6-20.htm">Commands</a> <a href="/proverbs/15-21.htm">Directeth</a> <a href="/proverbs/4-13.htm">Fast</a> <a href="/proverbs/4-10.htm">Heart</a> <a href="/proverbs/4-13.htm">Hold</a> <a href="/proverbs/7-2.htm">Live</a> <a href="/proverbs/11-16.htm">Retain</a> <a href="/proverbs/7-1.htm">Rules</a> <a href="/proverbs/4-11.htm">Taught</a> <a href="/proverbs/4-11.htm">Teaching</a> <a href="/proverbs/4-5.htm">Words</a><div class="vheading2">Links</div><a href="/niv/proverbs/4-4.htm">Proverbs 4:4 NIV</a><br /><a href="/nlt/proverbs/4-4.htm">Proverbs 4:4 NLT</a><br /><a href="/esv/proverbs/4-4.htm">Proverbs 4:4 ESV</a><br /><a href="/nasb/proverbs/4-4.htm">Proverbs 4:4 NASB</a><span class="p"><br /><br /></span><a href="//bibleapps.com/proverbs/4-4.htm">Proverbs 4:4 Bible Apps</a><br /><a href="//bibliaparalela.com/proverbs/4-4.htm">Proverbs 4:4 Biblia Paralela</a><br /><a href="//holybible.com.cn/proverbs/4-4.htm">Proverbs 4:4 Chinese Bible</a><br /><a href="//saintebible.com/proverbs/4-4.htm">Proverbs 4:4 French Bible</a><br /><a href="//bibeltext.com/proverbs/4-4.htm">Proverbs 4:4 German Bible</a><span class="p"><br /><br /></span>Alphabetical: all and commandments commands fast he heart hold keep Lay Let live me my of said taught Then to will with words you your<span class="p"><br /><br /></span><a href="https://biblehub.com/proverbs/4-4.htm">OT Poetry: Proverbs 4:4 He taught me and said to me: (Prov. 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