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My son, hear the instruction of thy father,
And forsake not the [a]law of thy mother:
For they shall be a chaplet of grace unto thy head,
And chains about thy neck.

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  1. Proverbs 1:8 Or, teaching

My son, forget not my [a]law;
But let thy heart keep my commandments:
For length of days, and years of life,
And peace, will they add to thee.

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  1. Proverbs 3:1 Or, teaching

Hear, my sons, the instruction of a father,
And attend to know understanding:
For I give you good doctrine;
Forsake ye not my [a]law.
For I was a son unto my father,
Tender and [b]only beloved in the sight of my mother.
And he taught me, and said unto me:
Let thy heart retain my words;
Keep my commandments, and live;

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  1. Proverbs 4:2 Or, teaching
  2. Proverbs 4:3 Hebrew an only one.

10 The proverbs of Solomon.

A wise son maketh a glad father;
But a foolish son is the heaviness of his mother.

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22 A good man leaveth an inheritance to his children’s children;
And the wealth of the sinner is laid up for the righteous.

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20 A wise son maketh a glad father;
But a foolish man despiseth his mother.

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Children’s children are the crown of old men;
And the glory of children are their fathers.

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21 He that begetteth a fool doeth it to his sorrow;
And the father of a fool hath no joy.

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25 A foolish son is a grief to his father,
And bitterness to her that bare him.

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13 A foolish son is the calamity of his father;
And the contentions of a wife are a continual dropping.

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18 Chasten thy son, seeing there is hope;
And set not thy heart on [a]his destruction.

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  1. Proverbs 19:18 Hebrew causing him to die.

26 He that doeth violence to his father, and chaseth away his mother,
Is a son that causeth shame and bringeth reproach.

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A righteous man that walketh in his integrity,
Blessed are his children after him.

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