Proverbs 1:8-9
Lexham English Bible
Lecture Against Gang Behavior
8 My child, may you keep[a] your father’s instruction,
and do not reject your mother’s teachings,
9 for they are a garland of favor for your head,
and pendants for your neck.
Footnotes
- Proverbs 1:8 Or “obey,” or “hear”
Proverbs 1:8-9
American Standard Version
8 My son, hear the instruction of thy father,
And forsake not the [a]law of thy mother:
9 For they shall be a chaplet of grace unto thy head,
And chains about thy neck.
Footnotes
- Proverbs 1:8 Or, teaching
Proverbs 3:1-2
Lexham English Bible
Wisdom and Piety
3 My child, do not forget my instruction,
and may your heart guard my commands.
2 For length of days, years of life,
and peace they[a] shall add to you.
Footnotes
- Proverbs 3:2 That is, “my commands” (3:1)
Proverbs 3:1-2
American Standard Version
3 My son, forget not my [a]law;
But let thy heart keep my commandments:
2 For length of days, and years of life,
And peace, will they add to thee.
Footnotes
- Proverbs 3:1 Or, teaching
Proverbs 4:1-4
Lexham English Bible
The Father’s Wisdom
4 Children, listen to the instruction of a father,
and be attentive in order to know insight.
2 For I have given you good instruction;
do not forsake my teaching.
3 When I was a son to my father,
tender and alone before my mother,
4 he taught me and said to me,
“May your heart hold fast to my words;
guard my commandments and live.
Proverbs 4:1-4
American Standard Version
4 Hear, my sons, the instruction of a father,
And attend to know understanding:
2 For I give you good doctrine;
Forsake ye not my [a]law.
3 For I was a son unto my father,
Tender and [b]only beloved in the sight of my mother.
4 And he taught me, and said unto me:
Let thy heart retain my words;
Keep my commandments, and live;
Footnotes
- Proverbs 4:2 Or, teaching
- Proverbs 4:3 Hebrew an only one.
Proverbs 10:1
Lexham English Bible
Proverbs of Solomon
10 The proverbs of Solomon:
A wise child makes a father glad,
but a foolish child grieves his mother.
Proverbs 10:1
American Standard Version
10 The proverbs of Solomon.
A wise son maketh a glad father;
But a foolish son is the heaviness of his mother.
Proverbs 13:22
Lexham English Bible
22 He who is good will leave an inheritance to his grandchildren,[a]
and stored up for the righteous is the wealth of a sinner.
Footnotes
- Proverbs 13:22 Literally “sons of sons”
Proverbs 13:22
American Standard Version
22 A good man leaveth an inheritance to his children’s children;
And the wealth of the sinner is laid up for the righteous.
Proverbs 15:20
Lexham English Bible
20 A child of wisdom will make a father glad,
but a foolish person,[a] he despises his mother.
Footnotes
- Proverbs 15:20 Literally “foolishness of humankind”
Proverbs 15:20
American Standard Version
20 A wise son maketh a glad father;
But a foolish man despiseth his mother.
Proverbs 17:6
Lexham English Bible
6 The crown of the elderly are grandchildren,[a]
and the glory of children is their fathers.
Footnotes
- Proverbs 17:6 Literally “sons of sons”
Proverbs 17:6
American Standard Version
6 Children’s children are the crown of old men;
And the glory of children are their fathers.
Proverbs 17:21
Lexham English Bible
21 He who begets a fool, there is trouble for him;
the father of a fool will not rejoice.
Proverbs 17:21
American Standard Version
21 He that begetteth a fool doeth it to his sorrow;
And the father of a fool hath no joy.
Proverbs 17:25
Lexham English Bible
25 A grief to his father is the child of a fool,
and bitterness to her who bore him.
Proverbs 17:25
American Standard Version
25 A foolish son is a grief to his father,
And bitterness to her that bare him.
Proverbs 19:13
Lexham English Bible
13 A foolish child is a ruin to his father,
and the quarreling of a woman[a] is a continuous dripping.
Footnotes
- Proverbs 19:13 Or “wife”
Proverbs 19:13
American Standard Version
13 A foolish son is the calamity of his father;
And the contentions of a wife are a continual dropping.
Proverbs 19:18
Lexham English Bible
18 Discipline your child, for there is hope,
but on his destruction do not set your desire.[a]
Footnotes
- Proverbs 19:18 Or “soul,” or “inner self”
Proverbs 19:18
American Standard Version
18 Chasten thy son, seeing there is hope;
And set not thy heart on [a]his destruction.
Footnotes
- Proverbs 19:18 Hebrew causing him to die.
Proverbs 19:26
Lexham English Bible
26 He who does violence to a father, he who chases away a mother,
is a child who causes shame and brings reproach.
Proverbs 19:26
American Standard Version
26 He that doeth violence to his father, and chaseth away his mother,
Is a son that causeth shame and bringeth reproach.
Proverbs 20:7
Lexham English Bible
7 He who walks in his integrity is righteous;
happy are his children who follow him.
Proverbs 20:7
American Standard Version
7 A righteous man that walketh in his integrity,
Blessed are his children after him.
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