Proverbs 1:8-9
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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 3:1-2
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Admonition to Trust and Honor God
3 My son, do not forget my teaching,
but let your heart keep my commandments;
2 for length of days and years of life
and abundant welfare will they give you.
Proverbs 4:1-4
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Fatherly Advice
4 Hear, O sons, a father’s instruction,
and be attentive, that you may gain[a] insight;
2 for I give you good precepts:
do not forsake my teaching.
3 When I was a son with my father,
tender, the only one in the sight of my mother,
4 he taught me, and said to me,
“Let your heart hold fast my words;
keep my commandments, and live;
Footnotes
- Proverbs 4:1 Heb know
Proverbs 10:1
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Wise Sayings of Solomon
10 The proverbs of Solomon.
A wise son makes a glad father,
but a foolish son is a sorrow to his mother.
Proverbs 13:22
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22 A good man leaves an inheritance to his children’s children,
but the sinner’s wealth is laid up for the righteous.
Proverbs 15:20
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20 A wise son makes a glad father,
but a foolish man despises his mother.
Proverbs 17:6
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6 Grandchildren are the crown of the aged,
and the glory of sons is their fathers.
Proverbs 17:21
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21 A stupid son is a grief to a father;
and the father of a fool has no joy.
Proverbs 17:25
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25 A foolish son is a grief to his father
and bitterness to her who bore him.
Proverbs 19:13
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13 A foolish son is ruin to his father,
and a wife’s quarreling is a continual dripping of rain.
Proverbs 19:18
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18 Discipline your son while there is hope;
do not set your heart on his destruction.
Proverbs 19:26
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26 He who does violence to his father and chases away his mother
is a son who causes shame and brings reproach.
Proverbs 20:7
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7 A righteous man who walks in his integrity—
blessed are his sons after him!
Proverbs 22:6
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6 Train up a child in the way he should go,
and when he is old he will not depart from it.
Proverbs 22:15
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15 Folly is bound up in the heart of a child,
but the rod of discipline drives it far from him.
Proverbs 23:13-14
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13 Do not withhold discipline from a child;
if you beat him with a rod, he will not die.
14 If you beat him with the rod
you will save his life from Sheol.
Proverbs 29:15
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15 The rod and reproof give wisdom,
but a child left to himself brings shame to his mother.
Proverbs 29:17
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17 Discipline your son, and he will give you rest;
he will give delight to your heart.
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