Proverbs 6:20
Modern English Version
Warning Against Adultery
20 My son, keep your father’s commandment,
and do not forsake the instruction of your mother.
Proverbs 6:20
21st Century King James Version
20 My son, keep thy father’s commandment, and forsake not the law of thy mother.
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Proverbs 23:22-25
Modern English Version
Saying Seventeen
22 Listen to your father who gave you life,
and do not despise your mother when she is old.
23 Buy the truth, and do not sell it,
also wisdom and instruction and understanding.
24 The father of the righteous will greatly rejoice,
and he who fathers a wise child will have joy of him.
25 Your father and your mother will be glad,
and she who bore you will rejoice.
Proverbs 23:22-25
21st Century King James Version
22 Hearken unto thy father that begot 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 in him.
25 Thy father and thy mother shall be glad, and she that bore thee shall rejoice.
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Proverbs 29:15
Modern English Version
15 The rod and reproof give wisdom,
but a child left to himself brings his mother to shame.
Proverbs 29:15
21st Century King James Version
15 The rod and reproof give wisdom, but a child left to himself bringeth his mother to shame.
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