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Proverbs 1:8-9
Holman 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 grace on your head
and a gold chain around your neck.(C)

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Proverbs 1:8-9
New Living Translation

A Father’s Exhortation: Acquire Wisdom

8 My child,[a] listen when your father corrects you.
    Don’t neglect your mother’s instruction.
9 What you learn from them will crown you with grace
    and be a chain of honor around your neck.

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  1. 1:8 Hebrew My son; also in 1:10, 15.
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