Proverbs 1:8-9
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8 My son, hear the instruction of thy father,
and forsake not the law of thy mother:
9 for they shall be an ornament of grace unto thy head,
and chains about thy neck.
Proverbs 4:1-4
Authorized (King James) Version
4 Hear, ye children, the instruction of a father,
and attend to know understanding.
2 For I give you good doctrine,
forsake ye not my law.
3 For I was my father’s son,
tender and only beloved in the sight of my mother.
4 He taught me also, and said unto me,
Let thine heart retain my words:
keep my commandments, and live.
Proverbs 10:1
Authorized (King James) Version
10 The proverbs of Solomon.
A wise son maketh a glad father:
but a foolish son is the heaviness of his mother.
Proverbs 11:29
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29 He that troubleth his own house shall inherit the wind:
and the fool shall be servant to the wise of heart.
Proverbs 15:20
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20 A wise son maketh a glad father:
but a foolish man despiseth his mother.
Proverbs 17:2
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2 A wise servant shall have rule over a son that causeth shame,
and shall have part of the inheritance among the brethren.
Proverbs 17:6
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6 Children’s children are the crown of old men;
and the glory of children are their fathers.
Proverbs 17:21
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21 He that begetteth a fool doeth it to his sorrow:
and the father of a fool hath no joy.
Proverbs 17:25
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25 A foolish son is a grief to his father,
and bitterness to her that bare him.
Proverbs 19:13
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13 A foolish son is the calamity of his father:
and the contentions of a wife are a continual dropping.
Proverbs 19:26
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26 He that wasteth his father, and chaseth away his mother,
is a son that causeth shame, and bringeth reproach.
Proverbs 20:20
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20 Whoso curseth his father or his mother,
his lamp shall be put out in obscure darkness.
Proverbs 22:6
Authorized (King James) Version
6 Train up a child in the way he should go:
and when he is old, he will not depart from it.
Proverbs 23:22-25
Authorized (King James) Version
22 Hearken unto thy father that begat thee,
and despise not thy mother when she is old.
23 Buy the truth, and sell it not;
also wisdom, and instruction, and understanding.
24 The father of the righteous shall greatly rejoice:
and he that begetteth a wise child shall have joy of him.
25 Thy father and thy mother shall be glad,
and she that bare thee shall rejoice.
Proverbs 28:24
Authorized (King James) Version
24 Whoso robbeth his father or his mother,
and saith, It is no transgression;
the same is the companion of a destroyer.
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