Proverbs 6:20
New Living Translation
20 My son, obey your father’s commands,
and don’t neglect your mother’s instruction.
Proverbs 6:20
King James Version
20 My son, keep thy father's commandment, and forsake not the law of thy mother:
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Proverbs 23:22-25
New Living Translation
22 Listen to your father, who gave you life,
and don’t despise your mother when she is old.
23 Get the truth and never sell it;
also get wisdom, discipline, and good judgment.
24 The father of godly children has cause for joy.
What a pleasure to have children who are wise.[a]
25 So give your father and mother joy!
May she who gave you birth be happy.
Footnotes
- 23:24 Hebrew to have a wise son.
Proverbs 23:22-25
King James Version
22 Hearken unto thy father that begat thee, and despise not thy mother when she is old.
23 Buy the truth, and sell it not; also wisdom, and instruction, and understanding.
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 29:15
New Living Translation
15 To discipline a child produces wisdom,
but a mother is disgraced by an undisciplined child.
Proverbs 29:15
King James Version
15 The rod and reproof give wisdom: but a child left to himself bringeth his mother to shame.
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