{"collection":"Bible & Christianity","html_url":"https://unchartedknowledge.5gfusion.net/browse/bib/cmt/wesley/pro004.htm","path":"bib/cmt/wesley/pro004.htm","source_url":"https://sacred-texts.com/bib/cmt/wesley/pro004.htm","text":"Explanatory Notes on the Whole Bible, by John Wesley, [1754-65]\n \nProverbs 4:1\n \npro 4:1\nA father - Of me, who have paternal authority over you and affection for you. \nProverbs 4:3\n \npro 4:3\nTender - Young and tender in years, and tenderly educated. Only beloved - Beloved above all the rest. \nProverbs 4:4\n \npro 4:4\nSaid - The following verses, at least as far as the tenth verse, are the words of David. \nProverbs 4:7\n \npro 4:7\nWith all - Even with the price of all. \nProverbs 4:8\n \npro 4:8\nExalt - Let her have thine highest esteem and affection. \nProverbs 4:9\n \npro 4:9\nGrace - A beautiful ornament, such as they used to put upon their heads. \nProverbs 4:16\n \npro 4:16\nFor - They cannot sleep with quietness. \nProverbs 4:17\n \npro 4:17\nFor - Wickedness is as pleasant to them as their bread. \nProverbs 4:18\n \npro 4:18\nBut - Just men daily grow in knowledge, and grace, and consolation, 'till all be perfected and swallowed up in glory. \nProverbs 4:19\n \npro 4:19\nDarkness - Full of ignorance and error, of uncertainty and confusion, of danger and misery. \nProverbs 4:23\n \npro 4:23\nHeart - Thy thoughts, will, and affections. For - From thence proceed all the actions, as of the natural, so of the spiritual life, which lead to eternal life. \nProverbs 4:24\n \npro 4:24\nMouth - All sorts of sinful words. \nProverbs 4:25\n \npro 4:25\nRight on - Direct all thine actions to a right end, and keep thy mind fixed upon that way which leads to it, and neither look or turn aside to the right - hand or the left. \nProverbs 4:26\n \npro 4:26\nPonder - Consider thine actions before thou dost them, and see that they agree with the rule. And - Let thine actions be uniformly and constantly good in spite of all temptations.","title":"Explanatory Notes on the Whole Bible: Proverbs: Proverbs Chapter 4","type":"page"}