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Proverbs 1:8-9
Christian Standard Bible

Avoid the Path of the Violent

8 Listen, my son, to your father’s instruction,
and don’t reject your mother’s teaching,(A)
9 for they will be a garland(B) of favor on your head
and pendants[a] around your neck.(C)

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Proverbs 1:8-9
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Prologue: Exhortations to Embrace Wisdom

Warning Against the Invitation of Sinful Men

8 Listen, my son,(A) to your father’s(B) instruction
    and do not forsake your mother’s teaching.(C)
9 They are a garland to grace your head
    and a chain to adorn your neck.(D)

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