Proverbs 1:8-9

Christian Standard Bible

Avoid the Path of the Violent

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

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