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 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 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 10:1
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10 The proverbs of Solomon.
A wise son makes a glad father;
but a foolish son brings grief to his mother.
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 15:20
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20 A wise son makes a father glad,
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 17:21
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21 He who becomes the father of a fool grieves.
The father of a fool has no joy.
Proverbs 17:25
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25 A foolish son brings grief to his father,
and bitterness to her who bore him.
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 19:18
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18 Discipline your son, for there is hope;
don’t be a willing party to his death.
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 20:7
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7 A righteous man walks in integrity.
Blessed are his children after him.
Proverbs 22:6
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6 Train up a child in the way he should go,
and when he is old he will not depart from it.
Proverbs 22:15
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15 Folly is bound up in the heart of a child:
the rod of discipline drives it far from him.
Proverbs 23:13-14
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13 Don’t withhold correction from a child.
If you punish him with the rod, he will not die.
14 Punish him with the rod,
and save his soul from Sheol.[a]
Footnotes
- 23:14 Sheol is the place of the dead.
Proverbs 29:15
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15 The rod of correction gives wisdom,
but a child left to himself causes shame to his mother.
Proverbs 29:17
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17 Correct your son, and he will give you peace;
yes, he will bring delight to your soul.
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