AB - Proverbs - 4

4:1  Hear, my children, the instruction of a father, and give attention to know understanding.

4:2  For I give you a good gift; forsake not my law.

4:3  For I also was a son obedient to my father, and loved in the sight of my mother:

4:4  who spoke and instructed me, saying, Let our speech be fixed in your heart, keep our commandments, forget them not:

4:5  and do not neglect the speech of my mouth.

4:6  And forsake it not, and it shall cleave to you: love it, and it shall keep you.

4:8  Secure it, and it shall exalt you: honor it, that it may embrace you;

4:9  that it may give unto your head a crown of grace, and may cover you with a crown of delight.

4:10  Hear, my son, and receive my words, and the years of your life shall be increased, that the resources of your life may be many.

4:11  For I teach you the ways of wisdom; and I cause you to go in right paths.

4:12  For when you go, your steps shall not be hindered; and when you run, you shall not be distressed.

4:13  Take hold of my instruction; do not let it go, but keep it for yourself, for your life.

4:14  Go not in the ways of the ungodly, neither covet the ways of transgressors.

4:15  In whatever place they shall pitch their camp, do not go there; but turn from them, and pass away.

4:16  For they cannot sleep, unless they have done evil: their sleep is taken away, and they rest not.

4:17  For these live upon the bread of ungodliness, and are drunken with the wine of transgression.

4:18  But the ways of the righteous shine like light; they go forth and shine, until the day has fully come.

4:19  But the ways of the ungodly are like darkness; they know not how they stumble.

4:20  My son, attend to my speech, and incline your ear to my words,

4:21  that your fountains may not fail you; keep them in your heart.

4:22  For they are life to those that find them, and health to all their flesh.

4:23  Keep your heart with the utmost care, for out of these are the issues of life.

4:24  Remove from yourself a deceitful mouth, and put unjust lips far away from yourself.

4:25  Let your eyes look right on, and let your eyelids assent to just things.

4:26  Make straight paths for your feet, and order your ways rightly.

4:27  Turn not aside to the right hand, nor to the left, but turn away your foot from an evil way: for God knows the ways on the right hand, but those on the left are crooked: and He will make your ways straight, and will guide your steps in peace.