Pro Proverbs, chapter Proverbs of Solomon, chapter 4
Hear, ye children, the instruction of a father, and attend to know understanding. For I give you good doctrine; forsake ye not my teaching. For I was a son unto my father, tender and an only one in the sight of my mother. And he taught me, and said unto me: 'Let thy heart hold fast my words, keep my commandments, and live; 1Ch 28:9Get wisdom, get understanding; forget not, neither decline from the words of my mouth; Forsake her not, and she will preserve thee; love her, and she will keep thee. The beginning of wisdom is: Get wisdom; yea, with all thy getting get understanding. Extol her, and she will exalt thee; she will bring thee to honour, when thou dost embrace her. Dan 2:46She will give to thy head a chaplet of grace; a crown of glory will she bestow on thee.' Pro 1:9Hear, O my son, and receive my sayings; and the years of thy life shall be many. Pro 3:2I have taught thee in the way of wisdom; I have led thee in paths of uprightness. When thou goest, thy step shall not be straitened; and if thou runnest, thou shalt not stumble. Take fast hold of instruction, let her not go; keep her, for she is thy life. Enter not into the path of the wicked, and walk not in the way of evil men. Psa 1:1; Pro 1:10Avoid it, pass not by it; turn from it, and pass on. For they sleep not, except they have done evil; and their sleep is taken away, unless they cause some to fall. Est 6:4; Psa 36:4; Mic 2:1For they eat the bread of wickedness, and drink the wine of violence. Pro 1:13But the path of the righteous is as the light of dawn, that shineth more and more unto the perfect day. Psa 97:11The way of the wicked is as darkness; they know not at what they stumble. Deu 28:29; Isa 59:10My son, attend to my words; incline thine ear unto my sayings. Let them not depart from thine eyes; keep them in the midst of thy heart. For they are life unto those that find them, and health to all their flesh. Psa 19:7Above all that thou guardest keep thy heart; for out of it are the issues of life. Put away from thee a froward mouth, and perverse lips put far from thee. Let thine eyes look right on, and let thine eyelids look straight before thee. Job 31:1Make plain the path of thy feet, and let all thy ways be established. Turn not to the right hand nor to the left; remove thy foot from evil.Deu 5:32