13Take firm hold of instruction. Don't let her go. Keep her, for she is your life.


In Context

10 Listen, my son, and receive my sayings. The years of your life will be many.

11 I have taught you in the way of wisdom. I have led you in straight paths.

12 When you go, your steps will not be hampered. When you run, you will not stumble.

13 Take firm hold of instruction. Don't let her go. Keep her, for she is your life.

14 Don't enter into the path of the wicked. Don't walk in the way of evil men.

15 Avoid it, and don't pass by it. Turn from it, and pass on.

Proverbs 4:13 in Other Translations

The King James Version of the Holy Bible

4:13Take fast hold of instruction; let [her] not go: keep her; for she [is] thy life.

The New International Version of the Holy Bible

4:13Hold on to instruction, do not let it go; guard it well, for it is your life.

The Douay-Rheims Version of the Holy Bible

4:13Take hold on instruction, leave it not: keep it, because it is thy life.

The American Standard Version of the Holy Bible

4:13Take fast hold of instruction; let her not go: Keep her; for she is thy life.

The Darby Bible Translation of the Holy Bible

4:13Take fast hold of instruction, let her not go: keep her, for she is thy life.

The English Revised Version of the Holy Bible

4:13Take fast hold of instruction; let her not go: keep her; for she is thy life.

The Webster Bible Translation of the Holy Bible

4:13Take fast hold of instruction; let her not go: keep her; for she is thy life.

The Young's Literal Translation of the Holy Bible

4:13Lay hold on instruction, do not desist, Keep her, for she is thy life.

The American King James Version of the Holy Bible

4:13Take fast hold of instruction; let her not go: keep her; for she is your life.