Proverbs 4:1
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4 Listen, sons, to a father’s instruction.
Pay attention and know understanding;
Proverbs 4:1
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Get Wisdom at Any Cost
Proverbs 6:20
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20 My son, keep your father’s commandment,
and don’t forsake your mother’s teaching.
Proverbs 6:20
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Warning Against Adultery
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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Proverbs 19:14
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14 House and riches are an inheritance from fathers,
but a prudent wife is from Yahweh.
Proverbs 19:14
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Proverbs 22:28
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28 Don’t move the ancient boundary stone
which your fathers have set up.
Proverbs 22:28
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Saying 5
28 Do not move an ancient boundary stone(A)
set up by your ancestors.
Proverbs 23:22-25
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22 Listen to your father who gave you life,
and don’t despise your mother when she is old.
23 Buy the truth, and don’t sell it.
Get wisdom, discipline, and understanding.
24 The father of the righteous has great joy.
Whoever fathers a wise child delights in him.
25 Let your father and your mother be glad!
Let her who bore you rejoice!
Proverbs 23:22-25
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Saying 17
22 Listen to your father, who gave you life,
and do not despise your mother when she is old.(A)
23 Buy the truth and do not sell it—
wisdom, instruction and insight as well.(B)
24 The father of a righteous child has great joy;
a man who fathers a wise son rejoices in him.(C)
25 May your father and mother rejoice;
may she who gave you birth be joyful!(D)
Proverbs 29:3
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3 Whoever loves wisdom brings joy to his father;
but a companion of prostitutes squanders his wealth.
Proverbs 29:3
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