Proverbs 4:13 — KJV with Strong's Concordance

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¹³Take fast hold of instruction; let her not go: keep her; for she is thy life.

Proverbs 4:13 —

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Original word meaning

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Cross-References

From the Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

Hebrews 2:1
Therefore we ought to give the more earnest heed to the things which we have heard, lest at any time we should let them slip.
Proverbs 23:23
Buy the truth, and sell it not; also wisdom, and instruction, and understanding.
Proverbs 3:18
She is a tree of life to them that lay hold upon her: and happy is every one that retaineth her.
Deuteronomy 32:47
For it is not a vain thing for you; because it is your life: and through this thing ye shall prolong your days in the land, whither ye go over Jordan to possess it.
1 Thessalonians 5:21
Prove all things; hold fast that which is good.

Topics

Children Graces Ignorance Knowledge Man Minors Prudence Speaking

Commentary

Matthew Henry’s Complete Commentary on the Bible (1710)

(vv. 1-13)

Here we have, I. The invitation which Solomon gives to his children to come and receive instruction from him (Prov. 4:1, 2): Hear, you children, the instruction of a father. That is, 1. “Let my own children, in the first place, receive and give good heed to those instructions which I set down for the use of others also.” Note, Magistrates and ministers, who are entrusted with the direction of larg…

Robert Jamieson, A. R. Fausset, David Brown’s Jamieson-Fausset-Brown Commentary (1871)

(vv. 13)

13. (Compare Pr 3:18). The figure of laying hold with the hand suggests earnest effort.