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 6:20-23
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20 My son, keep thy father’s commandment,
and forsake not the law of thy mother:
21 bind them continually upon thine heart,
and tie them about thy neck.
22 When thou goest, it shall lead thee;
when thou sleepest, it shall keep thee;
and when thou awakest, it shall talk with thee.
23 For the commandment is a lamp; and the law is light;
and reproofs of instruction are the way of life:
Proverbs 10:1
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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 13:1
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13 A wise son heareth his father’s instruction:
but a scorner heareth not rebuke.
Proverbs 15:5
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5 A fool despiseth his father’s instruction:
but he that regardeth reproof is prudent.
Proverbs 15:20
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20 A wise son maketh a glad father:
but a foolish man despiseth his mother.
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 17:17
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17 A friend loveth at all times,
and a brother is born for adversity.
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 18:19
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19 A brother offended is harder to be won than a strong city:
and their contentions are like the bars of a castle.
Proverbs 19:13-14
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13 A foolish son is the calamity of his father:
and the contentions of a wife are a continual dropping.
14 House and riches are the inheritance of fathers:
and a prudent wife is from the Lord.
Proverbs 19:26-27
Authorized (King James) Version
26 He that wasteth his father, and chaseth away his mother,
is a son that causeth shame, and bringeth reproach.
27 Cease, my son, to hear the instruction
that causeth to err from the words of knowledge.
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 22:15
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15 Foolishness is bound in the heart of a child;
but the rod of correction shall drive it far from him.
Proverbs 22:28
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28 Remove not the ancient landmark,
which thy fathers have set.
Proverbs 23:22
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22 Hearken unto thy father that begat thee,
and despise not thy mother when she is old.
Proverbs 23:24-25
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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 27:8
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8 As a bird that wandereth from her nest,
so is a man that wandereth from his place.
Proverbs 27:10
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10 Thine own friend, and thy father’s friend, forsake not;
neither go into thy brother’s house in the day of thy calamity:
for better is a neighbour that is near than a brother far off.
Proverbs 28:7
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7 Whoso keepeth the law is a wise son:
but he that is a companion of riotous men shameth his father.
Proverbs 28:24
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24 Whoso robbeth his father or his mother,
and saith, It is no transgression;
the same is the companion of a destroyer.
Proverbs 29:3
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3 Whoso loveth wisdom rejoiceth his father:
but he that keepeth company with harlots spendeth his substance.
Proverbs 30:17
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17 The eye that mocketh at his father,
and despiseth to obey his mother,
the ravens of the valley shall pick it out,
and the young eagles shall eat it.
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