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Proverbs 19:13-14
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Proverbs 19:13-14
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13 A foolish son is the calamity of his father.
A wife’s quarrels are a continual dripping.
14 House and riches are an inheritance from fathers,
but a prudent wife is from Yahweh.
Proverbs 19:13-14
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Proverbs 19:13-14
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Proverbs 19:13-14
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Proverbs 19:13-14
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13 A foolish son is the calamity of his father: and the contentions of a wife are a continual dropping.
14 House and riches are the inheritance of fathers: and a prudent wife is from the Lord.
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Proverbs 19:26-27
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Proverbs 19:26-27
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26 He who robs his father and drives away his mother
is a son who causes shame and brings reproach.
27 If you stop listening to instruction, my son,
you will stray from the words of knowledge.
Proverbs 19:26-27
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Proverbs 19:26-27
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26 Whoever robs their father and drives out their mother(A)
is a child who brings shame and disgrace.
27 Stop listening to instruction, my son,(B)
and you will stray from the words of knowledge.
Proverbs 19:26-27
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Proverbs 19:26-27
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26 He that wasteth his father, and chaseth away his mother, is a son that causeth shame, and bringeth reproach.
27 Cease, my son, to hear the instruction that causeth to err from the words of knowledge.
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Proverbs 20:20
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Proverbs 20:20
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20 Whoever curses his father or his mother,
his lamp shall be put out in blackness of darkness.
Proverbs 20:20
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Proverbs 20:20
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Proverbs 20:20
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Proverbs 20:20
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20 Whoso curseth his father or his mother, his lamp shall be put out in obscure darkness.
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Proverbs 22:15
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Proverbs 22:15
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15 Folly is bound up in the heart of a child:
the rod of discipline drives it far from him.
Proverbs 22:15
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Proverbs 22:15
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15 Folly is bound up in the heart of a child,
but the rod of discipline will drive it far away.(A)
Proverbs 22:15
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Proverbs 22:15
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15 Foolishness is bound in the heart of a child; but the rod of correction shall drive it far from him.
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Proverbs 22:28
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Proverbs 22:28
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28 Don’t move the ancient boundary stone
which your fathers have set up.
Proverbs 22:28
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Proverbs 22:28
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Saying 5
28 Do not move an ancient boundary stone(A)
set up by your ancestors.
Proverbs 22:28
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Proverbs 22:28
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28 Remove not the ancient landmark, which thy fathers have set.
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Proverbs 23:22
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Proverbs 23:22
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22 Listen to your father who gave you life,
and don’t despise your mother when she is old.
Proverbs 23:22
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Proverbs 23:22
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Saying 17
22 Listen to your father, who gave you life,
and do not despise your mother when she is old.(A)
Proverbs 23:22
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Proverbs 23:22
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22 Hearken unto thy father that begat thee, and despise not thy mother when she is old.
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Proverbs 23:24-25
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Proverbs 23:24-25
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24 The father of the righteous has great joy.
Whoever fathers a wise child delights in him.
25 Let your father and your mother be glad!
Let her who bore you rejoice!
Proverbs 23:24-25
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Proverbs 23:24-25
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Proverbs 23:24-25
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Proverbs 23:24-25
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24 The father of the righteous shall greatly rejoice: and he that begetteth a wise child shall have joy of him.
25 Thy father and thy mother shall be glad, and she that bare thee shall rejoice.
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Proverbs 27:8
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Proverbs 27:8
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8 As a bird that wanders from her nest,
so is a man who wanders from his home.
Proverbs 27:8
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Proverbs 27:8
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8 Like a bird that flees its nest(A)
is anyone who flees from home.
Proverbs 27:8
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Proverbs 27:8
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8 As a bird that wandereth from her nest, so is a man that wandereth from his place.
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Proverbs 27:10
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Proverbs 27:10
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10 Don’t forsake your friend and your father’s friend.
Don’t go to your brother’s house in the day of your disaster.
A neighbor who is near is better than a distant brother.
Proverbs 27:10
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Proverbs 27:10
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10 Do not forsake your friend or a friend of your family,
and do not go to your relative’s house when disaster(A) strikes you—
better a neighbor nearby than a relative far away.
Proverbs 27:10
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Proverbs 27:10
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10 Thine own friend, and thy father's friend, forsake not; neither go into thy brother's house in the day of thy calamity: for better is a neighbour that is near than a brother far off.
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