Proverbs 4:1-14 Heare, O ye children, the instruction of a father, and giue eare to learne vnderstanding.

Geneva⁽ⁱ⁾ ¹ Heare, O ye children, the instruction of a father, and giue eare to learne vnderstanding. ² For I doe giue you a good doctrine: therefore forsake yee not my lawe. ³ For I was my fathers sonne, tender and deare in the sight of my mother, ⁴ When he taught me, and sayde vnto me, Let thine heart holde fast my woordes: keepe my commandements, and thou shalt liue. ⁵ Get wisedom: get vnderstading: forget not, neither decline from the woordes of my mouth. ⁶ Forsake her not, and shee shall keepe thee: loue her and shee shall preserue thee. ⁷ Wisedome is the beginning: get wisedome therefore: and aboue all thy possession get vnderstanding. ⁸ Exalt her, and she shall exalt thee: she shall bring thee to honour, if thou embrace her. ⁹ She shall giue a comely ornamet vnto thine head, yea, she shall giue thee a crowne of glorie. ¹⁰ Heare, my sonne, and receiue my wordes, and the yeeres of thy life shalbe many. ¹¹ I haue taught thee in ye way of wisedom, and led thee in the pathes of righteousnesse. ¹² Whe thou goest, thy gate shall not be strait, and when thou runnest, thou shalt not fall. ¹³ Take holde of instruction, and leaue not: keepe her, for shee is thy life. ¹⁴ Enter not into the way of the wicked, and walke not in the way of euill men.