Proverbs 4:1-10

¹Sons, hear ye the teaching of your father; and perceive ye, that ye know prudence.

²I shall give to you a good gift; forsake ye not my law.

³For why and I was the son of my father, a tender son, and one begotten, before my mother.

⁴And my father taught me, and said, Thine heart receive my words; keep thou my behests, and thou shalt live.

⁵Wield thou wisdom, wield thou prudence; forget thou not, neither bow thou away from the words of my mouth.

⁶Forsake thou not it, and it shall keep thee; love thou it, and it shall keep thee.

⁷The beginning of wisdom, wield thou wisdom; and in all thy possession, get thou prudence.

⁸Take thou it, and it shall enhance thee; thou shalt be glorified of it, when thou hast embraced it.

⁹It shall give increasings of graces to thine head; and a noble crown shall defend thee.

¹⁰My son, hear thou, and take my words; that the years of life be multiplied to thee.