Proverbs 1:8-9
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Warnings against Evil Companions
8 Hear, my child, your father’s instruction,
and do not reject your mother’s teaching,(A)
9 for they are a fair garland for your head
and pendants for your neck.(B)
Proverbs 1:8-9
New Living Translation
A Father’s Exhortation: Acquire Wisdom
8 My child,[a] listen when your father corrects you.
Don’t neglect your mother’s instruction.
9 What you learn from them will crown you with grace
and be a chain of honor around your neck.
Proverbs 4:1-4
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Parental Advice
4 Listen, children, to a father’s instruction,
and be attentive, that you may gain[a] insight,(A)
2 for I give you good precepts:
do not forsake my teaching.
3 When I was a son with my father,
tender and my mother’s favorite,(B)
4 he taught me and said to me,
“Let your heart hold fast my words;
keep my commandments and live.(C)
Footnotes
- 4.1 Heb know
Proverbs 4:1-4
New Living Translation
A Father’s Wise Advice
4 My children,[a] listen when your father corrects you.
Pay attention and learn good judgment,
2 for I am giving you good guidance.
Don’t turn away from my instructions.
3 For I, too, was once my father’s son,
tenderly loved as my mother’s only child.
4 My father taught me,
“Take my words to heart.
Follow my commands, and you will live.
Footnotes
- 4:1 Hebrew My sons.
Proverbs 10:1
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Wise Sayings of Solomon
10 The proverbs of Solomon.
A wise child makes a glad father,
but a foolish child is a mother’s grief.(A)
Proverbs 10:1
New Living Translation
The Proverbs of Solomon
10 The proverbs of Solomon:
A wise child[a] brings joy to a father;
a foolish child brings grief to a mother.
Proverbs 15:20
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20 A wise child makes a glad father,
but the foolish despise their mothers.(A)
Proverbs 15:20
New Living Translation
20 Sensible children bring joy to their father;
foolish children despise their mother.
Proverbs 17:21
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21 The one who fathers a fool gets trouble;
the parent of a fool has no joy.(A)
Proverbs 17:21
New Living Translation
21 It is painful to be the parent of a fool;
there is no joy for the father of a rebel.
Proverbs 17:25
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25 Foolish children are a grief to their father
and bitterness to her who bore them.(A)
Proverbs 17:25
New Living Translation
25 Foolish children[a] bring grief to their father
and bitterness to the one who gave them birth.
Footnotes
- 17:25 Hebrew A foolish son.
Proverbs 19:26
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26 Those who do violence to their father and chase away their mother
are children who cause shame and bring reproach.
Proverbs 19:26
New Living Translation
26 Children who mistreat their father or chase away their mother
are an embarrassment and a public disgrace.
Proverbs 20:20
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20 If you curse father or mother,
your lamp will go out in utter darkness.(A)
Proverbs 20:20
New Living Translation
20 If you insult your father or mother,
your light will be snuffed out in total darkness.
Proverbs 30:11-12
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11 There are those who curse their fathers
and do not bless their mothers.(A)
12 There are those who are pure in their own eyes,
yet are not cleansed of their filthiness.(B)
Proverbs 30:11-12
New Living Translation
11 Some people curse their father
and do not thank their mother.
12 They are pure in their own eyes,
but they are filthy and unwashed.
Proverbs 30:17
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17 The eye that mocks a father
and scorns to obey a mother
will be pecked out by the ravens of the valley
and eaten by the vultures.(A)
Proverbs 30:17
New Living Translation
17 The eye that mocks a father
and despises a mother’s instructions
will be plucked out by ravens of the valley
and eaten by vultures.
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