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Proverbs 6:20
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Proverbs 6:20
International Standard Version
Parental Counsel about Immorality
20 Keep your father’s commands, my son,
and never forsake your mother’s rules,[a]
Footnotes
- Proverbs 6:20 Or laws
Proverbs 23:22-25
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Proverbs 23:22-25
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22 Listen to the one who fathered you,
and don’t despise your mother in her old age.
23 Purchase truth, but don’t sell it;
store up[a] wisdom, instruction, and understanding.
24 The father of a righteous person will greatly rejoice;
whoever fathers a wise son will be glad because of him.
25 Let your father and mother rejoice;
make the one who gave birth to you happy.
Footnotes
- Proverbs 23:23 The Heb. lacks store up
Proverbs 29:15
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Proverbs 29:15
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15 The rod and rebuke bestow wisdom,
but an undisciplined child[a] brings shame to his mother.
Footnotes
- Proverbs 29:15 Lit. but a child left alone
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