What Does the Bible Say About My Son Attend To My Words?

Proverbs 4:20-22 ESV / 8 helpful votes

My son, be attentive to my words; incline your ear to my sayings. Let them not escape from your sight; keep them within your heart. For they are life to those who find them, and healing to all their flesh.

Proverbs 4:1-27 ESV / 6 helpful votes

Hear, O sons, a father's instruction, and be attentive, that you may gain insight, for I give you good precepts; do not forsake my teaching. When I was a son with my father, tender, the only one in the sight of my mother, he taught me and said to me, “Let your heart hold fast my words; keep my commandments, and live. Get wisdom; get insight; do not forget, and do not turn away from the words of my mouth. ...

John 3:16 ESV / 5 helpful votes

“For God so loved the world, that he gave his only Son, that whoever believes in him should not perish but have eternal life.

Proverbs 5:1-23 ESV / 4 helpful votes

My son, be attentive to my wisdom; incline your ear to my understanding, that you may keep discretion, and your lips may guard knowledge. For the lips of a forbidden woman drip honey, and her speech is smoother than oil, but in the end she is bitter as wormwood, sharp as a two-edged sword. Her feet go down to death; her steps follow the path to Sheol; ...

Proverbs 3:1-35 ESV / 4 helpful votes

My son, do not forget my teaching, but let your heart keep my commandments, for length of days and years of life and peace they will add to you. Let not steadfast love and faithfulness forsake you; bind them around your neck; write them on the tablet of your heart. So you will find favor and good success in the sight of God and man. Trust in the Lord with all your heart, and do not lean on your own understanding. ...

Hebrews 13:8 ESV / 3 helpful votes

Jesus Christ is the same yesterday and today and forever.

Proverbs 7:1 ESV / 3 helpful votes

My son, keep my words and treasure up my commandments with you;

Psalm 119:11 ESV / 3 helpful votes

I have stored up your word in my heart, that I might not sin against you.

1 John 1:9 ESV / 2 helpful votes

If we confess our sins, he is faithful and just to forgive us our sins and to cleanse us from all unrighteousness.

1 Peter 2:24 ESV / 2 helpful votes

He himself bore our sins in his body on the tree, that we might die to sin and live to righteousness. By his wounds you have been healed.

Hebrews 13:5 ESV / 2 helpful votes

Keep your life free from love of money, and be content with what you have, for he has said, “I will never leave you nor forsake you.”

Hebrews 10:25 ESV / 2 helpful votes

Not neglecting to meet together, as is the habit of some, but encouraging one another, and all the more as you see the Day drawing near.

Hebrews 4:12 ESV / 2 helpful votes

For the word of God is living and active, sharper than any two-edged sword, piercing to the division of soul and of spirit, of joints and of marrow, and discerning the thoughts and intentions of the heart.

2 Timothy 2:15 ESV / 2 helpful votes

Do your best to present yourself to God as one approved, a worker who has no need to be ashamed, rightly handling the word of truth.

Ephesians 2:8 ESV / 2 helpful votes

For by grace you have been saved through faith. And this is not your own doing; it is the gift of God,

2 Corinthians 5:17 ESV / 2 helpful votes

Therefore, if anyone is in Christ, he is a new creation. The old has passed away; behold, the new has come.

John 14:15 ESV / 2 helpful votes

“If you love me, you will keep my commandments.

John 14:6 ESV / 2 helpful votes

Jesus said to him, “I am the way, and the truth, and the life. No one comes to the Father except through me.

John 3:16-17 ESV / 2 helpful votes

“For God so loved the world, that he gave his only Son, that whoever believes in him should not perish but have eternal life. For God did not send his Son into the world to condemn the world, but in order that the world might be saved through him.

Matthew 28:19-20 ESV / 2 helpful votes

Go therefore and make disciples of all nations, baptizing them in the name of the Father and of the Son and of the Holy Spirit, teaching them to observe all that I have commanded you. And behold, I am with you always, to the end of the age.”

Matthew 9:35 ESV / 2 helpful votes

And Jesus went throughout all the cities and villages, teaching in their synagogues and proclaiming the gospel of the kingdom and healing every disease and every affliction.

Jeremiah 31:31-34 ESV / 2 helpful votes

“Behold, the days are coming, declares the Lord, when I will make a new covenant with the house of Israel and the house of Judah, not like the covenant that I made with their fathers on the day when I took them by the hand to bring them out of the land of Egypt, my covenant that they broke, though I was their husband, declares the Lord. For this is the covenant that I will make with the house of Israel after those days, declares the Lord: I will put my law within them, and I will write it on their hearts. And I will be their God, and they shall be my people. And no longer shall each one teach his neighbor and each his brother, saying, ‘Know the Lord,’ for they shall all know me, from the least of them to the greatest, declares the Lord. For I will forgive their iniquity, and I will remember their sin no more.”

Jeremiah 29:11 ESV / 2 helpful votes

For I know the plans I have for you, declares the Lord, plans for welfare and not for evil, to give you a future and a hope.

Jeremiah 17:14 ESV / 2 helpful votes

Heal me, O Lord, and I shall be healed; save me, and I shall be saved, for you are my praise.

Isaiah 58:8 ESV / 2 helpful votes

Then shall your light break forth like the dawn, and your healing shall spring up speedily; your righteousness shall go before you; the glory of the Lord shall be your rear guard.

Proverbs 23:1-35 ESV / 2 helpful votes

When you sit down to eat with a ruler, observe carefully what is before you, and put a knife to your throat if you are given to appetite. Do not desire his delicacies, for they are deceptive food. Do not toil to acquire wealth; be discerning enough to desist. When your eyes light on it, it is gone, for suddenly it sprouts wings, flying like an eagle toward heaven. ...

Proverbs 17:22 ESV / 2 helpful votes

A joyful heart is good medicine, but a crushed spirit dries up the bones.

Proverbs 6:1-35 ESV / 2 helpful votes

My son, if you have put up security for your neighbor, have given your pledge for a stranger, if you are snared in the words of your mouth, caught in the words of your mouth, then do this, my son, and save yourself, for you have come into the hand of your neighbor: go, hasten, and plead urgently with your neighbor. Give your eyes no sleep and your eyelids no slumber; save yourself like a gazelle from the hand of the hunter, like a bird from the hand of the fowler. ...

Proverbs 4:23 ESV / 2 helpful votes

Keep your heart with all vigilance, for from it flow the springs of life.

Proverbs 4:20-23 ESV / 2 helpful votes

My son, be attentive to my words; incline your ear to my sayings. Let them not escape from your sight; keep them within your heart. For they are life to those who find them, and healing to all their flesh. Keep your heart with all vigilance, for from it flow the springs of life.

Proverbs 4:13 ESV / 2 helpful votes

Keep hold of instruction; do not let go; guard her, for she is your life.

Proverbs 4:10 ESV / 2 helpful votes

Hear, my son, and accept my words, that the years of your life may be many.

Proverbs 2:1-22 ESV / 2 helpful votes

My son, if you receive my words and treasure up my commandments with you, making your ear attentive to wisdom and inclining your heart to understanding; yes, if you call out for insight and raise your voice for understanding, if you seek it like silver and search for it as for hidden treasures, then you will understand the fear of the Lord and find the knowledge of God. ...

Psalm 119:105 ESV / 2 helpful votes

Your word is a lamp to my feet and a light to my path.

Psalm 90:12 ESV / 2 helpful votes

So teach us to number our days that we may get a heart of wisdom.

1 Chronicles 16:11 ESV / 2 helpful votes

Seek the Lord and his strength; seek his presence continually!

Joshua 1:9 ESV / 2 helpful votes

Have I not commanded you? Be strong and courageous. Do not be frightened, and do not be dismayed, for the Lord your God is with you wherever you go.”

37 Bible Verses about My Son Attend To My Words

Proverbs 4:20-22 ESV / 8 helpful votes

Proverbs 4:1-27 ESV / 6 helpful votes

John 3:16 ESV / 5 helpful votes

Proverbs 5:1-23 ESV / 4 helpful votes

Proverbs 3:1-35 ESV / 4 helpful votes

Hebrews 13:8 ESV / 3 helpful votes

Proverbs 7:1 ESV / 3 helpful votes

Psalm 119:11 ESV / 3 helpful votes

1 John 1:9 ESV / 2 helpful votes

1 Peter 2:24 ESV / 2 helpful votes

Hebrews 13:5 ESV / 2 helpful votes

Hebrews 10:25 ESV / 2 helpful votes

Hebrews 4:12 ESV / 2 helpful votes

2 Timothy 2:15 ESV / 2 helpful votes

Ephesians 2:8 ESV / 2 helpful votes

2 Corinthians 5:17 ESV / 2 helpful votes

John 14:15 ESV / 2 helpful votes

John 14:6 ESV / 2 helpful votes

John 3:16-17 ESV / 2 helpful votes

Matthew 28:19-20 ESV / 2 helpful votes

Matthew 9:35 ESV / 2 helpful votes

Jeremiah 31:31-34 ESV / 2 helpful votes

Jeremiah 29:11 ESV / 2 helpful votes

Jeremiah 17:14 ESV / 2 helpful votes

Isaiah 58:8 ESV / 2 helpful votes

Proverbs 23:1-35 ESV / 2 helpful votes

Proverbs 17:22 ESV / 2 helpful votes

Proverbs 6:1-35 ESV / 2 helpful votes

Proverbs 4:23 ESV / 2 helpful votes

Proverbs 4:20-23 ESV / 2 helpful votes

Proverbs 4:13 ESV / 2 helpful votes

Proverbs 4:10 ESV / 2 helpful votes

Proverbs 2:1-22 ESV / 2 helpful votes

Psalm 119:105 ESV / 2 helpful votes

Psalm 90:12 ESV / 2 helpful votes

1 Chronicles 16:11 ESV / 2 helpful votes

Joshua 1:9 ESV / 2 helpful votes

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37 Bible Verses about My Son Attend To My Words

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Proverbs 4:20-22 ESV / 8 helpful votes

Proverbs 4:1-27 ESV / 6 helpful votes

John 3:16 ESV / 5 helpful votes

Proverbs 5:1-23 ESV / 4 helpful votes

Proverbs 3:1-35 ESV / 4 helpful votes

Hebrews 13:8 ESV / 3 helpful votes

Proverbs 7:1 ESV / 3 helpful votes

Psalm 119:11 ESV / 3 helpful votes

1 John 1:9 ESV / 2 helpful votes

1 Peter 2:24 ESV / 2 helpful votes

Hebrews 13:5 ESV / 2 helpful votes

Hebrews 10:25 ESV / 2 helpful votes

Hebrews 4:12 ESV / 2 helpful votes

2 Timothy 2:15 ESV / 2 helpful votes

Ephesians 2:8 ESV / 2 helpful votes

2 Corinthians 5:17 ESV / 2 helpful votes

John 14:15 ESV / 2 helpful votes

John 14:6 ESV / 2 helpful votes

John 3:16-17 ESV / 2 helpful votes

Matthew 28:19-20 ESV / 2 helpful votes

Matthew 9:35 ESV / 2 helpful votes

Jeremiah 31:31-34 ESV / 2 helpful votes

Jeremiah 29:11 ESV / 2 helpful votes

Jeremiah 17:14 ESV / 2 helpful votes

Isaiah 58:8 ESV / 2 helpful votes

Proverbs 23:1-35 ESV / 2 helpful votes

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Proverbs 6:1-35 ESV / 2 helpful votes

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Proverbs 4:13 ESV / 2 helpful votes

Proverbs 4:10 ESV / 2 helpful votes

Proverbs 2:1-22 ESV / 2 helpful votes

Psalm 119:105 ESV / 2 helpful votes

Psalm 90:12 ESV / 2 helpful votes

1 Chronicles 16:11 ESV / 2 helpful votes

Joshua 1:9 ESV / 2 helpful votes