Beware of Adultery

20 (A)My son, keep your father’s command,
And do not forsake the law of your mother.

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20 My son, keep the commandment of thy father,
And forsake not the [a]law of thy mother:

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Footnotes

  1. Proverbs 6:20 Or, teaching

22 (A)Listen to your father who begot you,
And do not despise your mother when she is old.

23 (B)Buy the truth, and do not sell it,
Also wisdom and instruction and understanding.

24 (C)The father of the righteous will greatly rejoice,
And he who begets a wise child will delight in him.
25 Let your father and your mother be glad,
And let her who bore you rejoice.

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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;
Yea, wisdom, and instruction, and understanding.
24 The father of the righteous will greatly rejoice;
And he that begetteth a wise child will have joy of him.
25 Let thy father and thy mother be glad,
And let her that bare thee rejoice.

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15 The rod and rebuke give (A)wisdom,
But a child left to himself brings shame to his mother.

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15 The rod and reproof give wisdom;
But a child left to himself causeth shame to his mother.

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