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Proverbs 1:8-9
Revised Standard Version
Proverbs 1:8-9
Revised Standard Version
Warnings against Evil Companions
8 Hear, my son, your father’s instruction,
and reject not your mother’s teaching;
9 for they are a fair garland for your head,
and pendants for your neck.
Proverbs 1:8-9
American Standard Version
Proverbs 1:8-9
American Standard Version
8 My son, hear the instruction of thy father,
And forsake not the [a]law of thy mother:
9 For they shall be a chaplet of grace unto thy head,
And chains about thy neck.
Footnotes
- Proverbs 1:8 Or, teaching
Revised Standard Version (RSV)
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