Proverbs 4:2-4

New International Reader's Version

² I give you good advice.
    So don’t turn away from what I teach you.
³ I, too, was once a young boy in my father’s house.
    And my mother loved me deeply.
⁴ Then my father taught me.
    He said to me, “Take hold of my words with all your heart.
    Keep my commands, and you will live.