Proverbs 1:8

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Prologue: Exhortations to Embrace Wisdom

Warning Against the Invitation of Sinful Men

⁸Listen, my son,^(A) to your father’s^(B) instruction
and do not forsake your mother’s teaching.^(C)

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Proverbs 4:1

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Get Wisdom at Any Cost

4 Listen, my sons,^(A) to a father’s instruction;^(B)
pay attention and gain understanding.^(C)

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1 Corinthians 4:15

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¹⁵Even if you had ten thousand guardians in Christ, you do not have many fathers, for in Christ Jesus I became your father^(A) through the gospel.^(B)

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Ephesians 3:14-15

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A Prayer for the Ephesians

¹⁴For this reason I kneel^(A) before the Father, ¹⁵from whom every family^[a] in heaven and on earth derives its name.

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Footnotes

Ephesians 3:15 The Greek for family (patria) is derived from the Greek for father (pater).

Hebrews 12:9

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⁹Moreover, we have all had human fathers who disciplined us and we respected them for it. How much more should we submit to the Father of spirits^(A) and live!^(B)

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