Proverbs - 4:2



2 for I give you sound learning. Don't forsake my law.

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Explanation and meaning of Proverbs 4:2.

Differing Translations

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For I give you good doctrine, forsake ye not my law.
I will give you a good gift, forsake not my law.
For good learning I have given to you, My law forsake not.
For I give you good teaching; do not give up the knowledge you are getting from me.
For I give you a good taking; Forsake ye not my teaching.
I will bestow upon you a good gift. Do not relinquish my law.

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Historical Commentaries

Scholarly Analysis and Interpretation.

Doctrine - Knowledge orally given and received.

For I give you good doctrine,.... Whose author, matter, use, and tendency, are good, and therefore should be received; so the Gospel is called, 1-Timothy 4:6; and no other is here meant: it is the doctrine concerning Wisdom or Christ, as the following verses show; which serves to exalt him, and makes for the good and welfare of immortal souls; and such is the doctrine of the Scriptures, of Christ and his apostles, even all the doctrines and truths of the Gospel;
forsake you not my law; or "doctrine" (o); not the law given on Mount Sinai, as Gersom interprets it; but the doctrine of Christ, which goes out from Mount Zion: this the children of Wisdom should not neglect, relinquish, drop, or depart from; but should keep it, and abide by it.
(o) "doctrinam meam", Junius & Tremellius, Piscator, Amama; "instructionem meam", Schultens.

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