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Bible</div><div class="chap"><p class="hdg">Listen to a Father's Instruction</p><p class="reg"><span class="reftext"><a href="/proverbs/4-1.htm"><b>1</b></a></span>Hear, ye children, the instruction of a father, and attend that you may know prudence. </p> <p class="reg"><span class="reftext"><a href="/proverbs/4-2.htm"><b>2</b></a></span>I will give you a good gift, forsake not my law. </p> <p class="reg"><span class="reftext"><a href="/proverbs/4-3.htm"><b>3</b></a></span>For I also was my father's son, tender and as an only son in the sight of my mother: </p> <p class="reg"><span class="reftext"><a href="/proverbs/4-4.htm"><b>4</b></a></span>And he taught me, and said: Let thy heart receive my words, keep my commandments, and thou shalt live. </p> <p class="reg"><span class="reftext"><a href="/proverbs/4-5.htm"><b>5</b></a></span>Get wisdom, get prudence: forget not, neither decline from the words of my mouth. </p> <p class="reg"><span class="reftext"><a href="/proverbs/4-6.htm"><b>6</b></a></span>Forsake her not, and she shall keep thee: love her, and she shall preserve thee. </p> <p class="reg"><span class="reftext"><a href="/proverbs/4-7.htm"><b>7</b></a></span>The beginning of wisdom, get wisdom, and with all thy possession purchase prudence. </p> <p class="reg"><span class="reftext"><a href="/proverbs/4-8.htm"><b>8</b></a></span>Take hold on her, and she shall exalt thee: thou shalt be glorified by her, when thou shalt embrace her. </p> <p class="reg"><span class="reftext"><a href="/proverbs/4-9.htm"><b>9</b></a></span>She shall give to thy head increase of graces, and protect thee with a noble crown. </p> <p class="reg"><span class="reftext"><a href="/proverbs/4-10.htm"><b>10</b></a></span>Hear, O my son, and receive my words, that years of life may be multiplied to thee. </p> <p class="reg"><span class="reftext"><a href="/proverbs/4-11.htm"><b>11</b></a></span>I will shew thee the way of wisdom, I will lead thee by the paths of equity: </p> <p class="reg"><span class="reftext"><a href="/proverbs/4-12.htm"><b>12</b></a></span>Which when thou shalt have entered, thy steps shall not be straitened, and when thou runnest thou shalt not meet a stumblingblock. </p> <p class="reg"><span class="reftext"><a href="/proverbs/4-13.htm"><b>13</b></a></span>Take hold on instruction, leave it not: keep it, because it is thy life. </p> <p class="reg"><span class="reftext"><a href="/proverbs/4-14.htm"><b>14</b></a></span>Be not delighted in the paths of the wicked, neither let the way of evil men please thee. </p> <p class="reg"><span class="reftext"><a href="/proverbs/4-15.htm"><b>15</b></a></span>Flee from it, pass not by it: go aside, and forsake it. </p> <p class="reg"><span class="reftext"><a href="/proverbs/4-16.htm"><b>16</b></a></span>For they sleep not except they have done evil: and their sleep is taken away unless they have made some to fall. </p> <p class="reg"><span class="reftext"><a href="/proverbs/4-17.htm"><b>17</b></a></span>They eat the bread of wickedness, and drink the wine of iniquity. </p> <p class="reg"><span class="reftext"><a href="/proverbs/4-18.htm"><b>18</b></a></span>But the path of the just, as a shining light, goeth forwards and increaseth even to perfect day. </p> <p class="reg"><span class="reftext"><a href="/proverbs/4-19.htm"><b>19</b></a></span>The way of the wicked is darksome: they know not where they fall. </p> <p class="reg"><span class="reftext"><a href="/proverbs/4-20.htm"><b>20</b></a></span>My son, hearken to my words, and incline thy ear to my sayings. </p> <p class="reg"><span class="reftext"><a href="/proverbs/4-21.htm"><b>21</b></a></span>Let them not depart from thy eyes, keep them in the midst of thy heart: </p> <p class="reg"><span class="reftext"><a href="/proverbs/4-22.htm"><b>22</b></a></span>For they are life to those that find them, and health to all flesh. </p> <p class="reg"><span class="reftext"><a href="/proverbs/4-23.htm"><b>23</b></a></span>With all watchfulness keep thy heart, because life issueth out from it. </p> <p class="reg"><span class="reftext"><a href="/proverbs/4-24.htm"><b>24</b></a></span>Remove from thee a froward mouth, and let detracting lips be far from thee. </p> <p class="reg"><span class="reftext"><a href="/proverbs/4-25.htm"><b>25</b></a></span>Let thy eyes look straight on, and let thy eyelids go before thy steps. </p> <p class="reg"><span class="reftext"><a href="/proverbs/4-26.htm"><b>26</b></a></span>Make straight the path for thy feet, and all thy ways shall be established. </p> <p class="reg"><span class="reftext"><a href="/proverbs/4-27.htm"><b>27</b></a></span>Decline not to the right hand, nor to the left: turn away thy foot from evil. 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