Proverbs 1:8-9
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8 My son, listen to your father’s instruction,
and don’t forsake your mother’s teaching:
9 for they will be a garland to grace your head,
and chains around your neck.
Proverbs 1:8-9
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The Enticement of Sinners
8 (A)Hear, my son, your father's instruction,
and forsake not your mother's teaching,
9 for they are (B)a graceful garland for your head
and (C)pendants for your neck.
Proverbs 3:1-2
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3 My son, don’t forget my teaching;
but let your heart keep my commandments:
2 for they will add to you length of days,
years of life, and peace.
Proverbs 3:1-2
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Trust in the Lord with All Your Heart
3 (A)My son, do not forget my teaching,
(B)but let your heart keep my commandments,
2 for (C)length of days and years of life
and (D)peace they will add to you.
Proverbs 4:1-4
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4 Listen, sons, to a father’s instruction.
Pay attention and know understanding;
2 for I give you sound learning.
Don’t forsake my law.
3 For I was a son to my father,
tender and an only child in the sight of my mother.
4 He taught me, and said to me:
“Let your heart retain my words.
Keep my commandments, and live.
Proverbs 4:1-4
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A Father's Wise Instruction
4 (A)Hear, O sons, a father's instruction,
and be attentive, that you may (B)gain[a] insight,
2 for I give you good (C)precepts;
do not forsake my teaching.
3 When I was a son with my father,
(D)tender, (E)the only one in the sight of my mother,
4 he (F)taught me and said to me,
(G)“Let your heart hold fast my words;
(H)keep my commandments, and live.
Footnotes
- Proverbs 4:1 Hebrew know
Proverbs 10:1
World English Bible
10 The proverbs of Solomon.
A wise son makes a glad father;
but a foolish son brings grief to his mother.
Proverbs 10:1
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Proverbs 13:22
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22 A good man leaves an inheritance to his children’s children,
but the wealth of the sinner is stored for the righteous.
Proverbs 13:22
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22 (A)A good man leaves an inheritance to his children's children,
but (B)the sinner's wealth is laid up for the righteous.
Proverbs 15:20
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20 A wise son makes a father glad,
but a foolish man despises his mother.
Proverbs 15:20
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20 (A)A wise son makes a glad father,
but a foolish man despises his mother.
Proverbs 17:6
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6 Children’s children are the crown of old men;
the glory of children are their parents.
Proverbs 17:6
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Proverbs 17:21
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21 He who becomes the father of a fool grieves.
The father of a fool has no joy.
Proverbs 17:21
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21 He who (A)sires a fool gets himself sorrow,
and the father of a fool has no joy.
Proverbs 17:25
World English Bible
25 A foolish son brings grief to his father,
and bitterness to her who bore him.
Proverbs 17:25
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Proverbs 19:13
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13 A foolish son is the calamity of his father.
A wife’s quarrels are a continual dripping.
Proverbs 19:13
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13 (A)A foolish son is ruin to his father,
and (B)a wife's quarreling is (C)a continual dripping of rain.
Proverbs 19:18
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18 Discipline your son, for there is hope;
don’t be a willing party to his death.
Proverbs 19:18
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Proverbs 19:26
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26 He who robs his father and drives away his mother
is a son who causes shame and brings reproach.
Proverbs 19:26
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26 He who does violence to his father and chases away his mother
is (A)a son who brings shame and reproach.
Proverbs 20:7
World English Bible
7 A righteous man walks in integrity.
Blessed are his children after him.
Proverbs 20:7
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