Proverbs 4:1-4

LEB(i) 1 Children, listen to the instruction of a father, and be attentive in order to know insight. 2 For I have given you good instruction; do not forsake my teaching. 3 When I was a son to my father, tender and alone before my mother, 4 he taught me and said to me, "May your heart hold fast to my words; guard my commandments and live.