Proverbs 4:4

The Father's Wisdom

³ When I was a son with my father,
tender and precious to my mother,
⁴ he taught me and said:
“Your heart must hold on to my words.
Keep my commands and live.
⁵ Get wisdom, get understanding;
don’t forget or turn away from the words of my mouth.

Keep My Commandments

Keep My Words

My Father

Proverbs 7:2

Keep my commands and live;
protect my teachings
as the pupil of your eye.

Ephesians 6:4

Fathers, don’t stir up anger in your children, but bring them up in the training and instruction of the Lord.

1 Chronicles 28:9

“As for you, Solomon my son, know the God of your father, and serve Him with a whole heart and a willing mind, for the Lord searches every heart and understands the intention of every thought. If you seek Him, He will be found by you, but if you forsake Him, He will reject you forever.

Proverbs 3:1

My son, don’t forget my teaching,
but let your heart keep my commands;

Isaiah 55:3

Pay attention and come to Me;
listen, so that you will live.
I will make an everlasting covenant with you,
the promises assured to David.

Genesis 18:19

For I have chosen him so that he will command his children and his house after him to keep the way of the Lord by doing what is right and just. This is how the Lord will fulfill to Abraham what He promised him.”

Leviticus 18:3-5

Do not follow the practices of the land of Egypt, where you used to live, or follow the practices of the land of Canaan, where I am bringing you. You must not follow their customs.

Deuteronomy 4:9

“Only be on your guard and diligently watch yourselves, so that you don’t forget the things your eyes have seen and so that they don’t slip from your mind as long as you live. Teach them to your children and your grandchildren.

Deuteronomy 6:6

These words that I am giving you today are to be in your heart.

1 Chronicles 22:11-16

“Now, my son, may the Lord be with you, and may you succeed in building the house of the Lord your God, as He said about you.

Psalm 119:11

I have treasured Your word in my heart
so that I may not sin against You.

Proverbs 22:6

Teach a youth about the way he should go;
even when he is old he will not depart from it.

John 12:50

I know that His command is eternal life. So the things that I speak, I speak just as the Father has told Me.”

2 Timothy 1:5

clearly recalling your sincere faith that first lived in your grandmother Lois, then in your mother Eunice, and that I am convinced is in you also.

2 Timothy 3:15

and you know that from childhood you have known the sacred Scriptures, which are able to give you wisdom for salvation through faith in Christ Jesus.

Hebrews 5:9

After He was perfected, He became the source of eternal salvation for all who obey Him,