The King James Version Bible

Proverbs 1:5-8

  1. A wise man will hear, and will increase learning; and a man of understanding shall attain unto wise counsels:

  2. To understand a proverb, and the interpretation; the words of the wise, and their dark sayings.

  3. The fear of the LORD is the beginning of knowledge: but fools despise wisdom and instruction.

  4. My son, hear the instruction of thy father, and forsake not the law of thy mother: