Online Bible NEW WORLD TRANSLATION OF THE HOLY SCRIPTURES Proverbs 4:1–27 1Listen, O sons, to the discipline of a father and pay attention, so as to know understanding.2For good instruction is what I certainly shall give to YOU. My law DO not leave.3For I proved to be a real son to my father, tender and the only one before my mother.4And he would instruct me and say to me: “May your heart keep fast hold of my words. Keep my commandments and continue living.5Acquire wisdom, acquire understanding. Do not forget, and do not turn aside from the sayings of my mouth.6Do not leave it, and it will keep you. Love it, and it will safeguard you.7Wisdom is the prime thing. Acquire wisdom; and with all that you acquire, acquire understanding.8Highly esteem it, and it will exalt you. It will glorify you because you embrace it.9To your head it will give a wreath of charm; a crown of beauty it will bestow upon you.” 10Hear, my son, and accept my sayings. Then for you the years of life will become many.11I will instruct you even in the way of wisdom; I will cause you to tread in the tracks of uprightness.12When you walk, your pace will not be cramped; and if you run, you will not stumble.13Take hold on discipline; do not let go. Safeguard it, for it itself is your life. 14Into the path of the wicked ones do not enter, and do not walk straight on into the way of the bad ones.15Shun it, do not pass along by it; turn aside from it, and pass along.16For they do not sleep unless they do badness, and their sleep has been snatched away unless they cause someone to stumble.17For they have fed themselves with the bread of wickedness, and the wine of acts of violence is what they drink.18But the path of the righteous ones is like the bright light that is getting lighter and lighter until the day is firmly established.19The way of the wicked ones is like the gloom; they have not known at what they keep stumbling. 20My son, to my words do pay attention. To my sayings incline your ear.21May they not get away from your eyes. Keep them in the midst of your heart.22For they are life to those finding them and health to all their flesh.23More than all else that is to be guarded, safeguard your heart, for out of it are the sources of life.24Remove from yourself the crookedness of speech; and the deviousness of lips put far away from yourself.25As for your eyes, straight ahead they should look, yes, your own beaming eyes should gaze straight in front of you.26Smooth out the course of your foot, and may all your own ways be firmly established.27Do not incline to the right hand or to the left. Remove your foot from what is bad. jw.org/en/publications/bible/proverbs/4/
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