Proverbs 1:8-9
English Standard Version
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 4:1-4
English Standard Version
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 4:1-4
Christian Standard Bible
A Father’s Example
4 Listen, sons, to a father’s discipline,(A)
and pay attention so that you may gain understanding,
2 for I am giving you good instruction.(B)
Don’t abandon my teaching.
3 When I was a son with my father,
tender and precious to my mother,
4 he taught me and said,
“Your heart must hold on to my words.
Keep my commands and live.(C)
Proverbs 10:1
English Standard Version
Proverbs 10:1
Christian Standard Bible
A Collection of Solomon’s Proverbs
10 Solomon’s proverbs:(A)
A wise son brings joy to his father,
but a foolish son, heartache to his mother.(B)
Proverbs 11:29
English Standard Version
29 Whoever (A)troubles his own household will (B)inherit the wind,
and the fool will be servant to the wise of heart.
Proverbs 11:29
Christian Standard Bible
29 The one who brings ruin on his household(A)
will inherit the wind,(B)
and a fool will be a slave
to someone whose heart is wise.
Proverbs 15:20
English Standard Version
20 (A)A wise son makes a glad father,
but a foolish man despises his mother.
Proverbs 15:20
Christian Standard Bible
20 A wise son brings joy to his father,
but a foolish man despises his mother.(A)
Proverbs 17:2
English Standard Version
2 A servant who deals wisely will rule over (A)a son who acts shamefully
and (B)will share the inheritance as one of the brothers.
Proverbs 17:2
Christian Standard Bible
2 A prudent servant will rule over a disgraceful son
and share an inheritance among brothers.
Proverbs 17:6
English Standard Version
Proverbs 17:6
Christian Standard Bible
6 Grandchildren are the crown of the elderly,
and the pride of children is their fathers.
Proverbs 17:21
English Standard Version
21 He who (A)sires a fool gets himself sorrow,
and the father of a fool has no joy.
Proverbs 17:21
Christian Standard Bible
21 A man fathers a fool to his own sorrow;
the father of a fool has no joy.(A)
Proverbs 17:25
English Standard Version
Proverbs 17:25
Christian Standard Bible
25 A foolish son is grief to his father
and bitterness to the one who bore him.(A)
Proverbs 19:13
English Standard Version
13 (A)A foolish son is ruin to his father,
and (B)a wife's quarreling is (C)a continual dripping of rain.
Proverbs 19:13
Christian Standard Bible
Proverbs 19:26
English Standard Version
26 He who does violence to his father and chases away his mother
is (A)a son who brings shame and reproach.
Proverbs 19:26
Christian Standard Bible
26 The one who plunders his father and evicts his mother
is a disgraceful and shameful son.
Proverbs 20:20
English Standard Version
Proverbs 20:20
Christian Standard Bible
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