Proverbs 1:8-9
American Standard Version
8 My son, hear the instruction of thy father,
And forsake not the [a]law of thy mother:
9 For they shall be a chaplet of grace unto thy head,
And chains about thy neck.
Footnotes
- Proverbs 1:8 Or, teaching
Proverbs 3:1-2
American Standard Version
3 My son, forget not my [a]law;
But let thy heart keep my commandments:
2 For length of days, and years of life,
And peace, will they add to thee.
Footnotes
- Proverbs 3:1 Or, teaching
Proverbs 4:1-4
American Standard Version
4 Hear, my sons, the instruction of a father,
And attend to know understanding:
2 For I give you good doctrine;
Forsake ye not my [a]law.
3 For I was a son unto my father,
Tender and [b]only beloved in the sight of my mother.
4 And he taught me, and said unto me:
Let thy heart retain my words;
Keep my commandments, and live;
Footnotes
- Proverbs 4:2 Or, teaching
- Proverbs 4:3 Hebrew an only one.
Proverbs 10:1
American Standard Version
10 The proverbs of Solomon.
A wise son maketh a glad father;
But a foolish son is the heaviness of his mother.
Proverbs 13:22
American Standard Version
22 A good man leaveth an inheritance to his children’s children;
And the wealth of the sinner is laid up for the righteous.
Proverbs 15:20
American Standard Version
20 A wise son maketh a glad father;
But a foolish man despiseth his mother.
Proverbs 17:6
American Standard Version
6 Children’s children are the crown of old men;
And the glory of children are their fathers.
Proverbs 17:21
American Standard Version
21 He that begetteth a fool doeth it to his sorrow;
And the father of a fool hath no joy.
Proverbs 17:25
American Standard Version
25 A foolish son is a grief to his father,
And bitterness to her that bare him.
Proverbs 19:13
American Standard Version
13 A foolish son is the calamity of his father;
And the contentions of a wife are a continual dropping.
Proverbs 19:18
American Standard Version
18 Chasten thy son, seeing there is hope;
And set not thy heart on [a]his destruction.
Footnotes
- Proverbs 19:18 Hebrew causing him to die.
Proverbs 19:26
American Standard Version
26 He that doeth violence to his father, and chaseth away his mother,
Is a son that causeth shame and bringeth reproach.
Proverbs 20:7
American Standard Version
7 A righteous man that walketh in his integrity,
Blessed are his children after him.
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