Proverbs 1:8-9
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Warnings against Evil Companions
8 Hear, my son, your father’s instruction,
and reject not your mother’s teaching;
9 for they are a fair garland for your head,
and pendants for your neck.
Proverbs 6:20-23
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20 My son, keep your father’s commandment,
and forsake not your mother’s teaching.
21 Bind them upon your heart always;
tie them about your neck.
22 When you walk, they[a] will lead you;
when you lie down, they[b] will watch over you;
and when you awake, they[c] will talk with you.
23 For the commandment is a lamp and the teaching a light,
and the reproofs of discipline are the way of life,
Footnotes
- Proverbs 6:22 Heb it
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Proverbs 10:1
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Wise Sayings of Solomon
10 The proverbs of Solomon.
A wise son makes a glad father,
but a foolish son is a sorrow to his mother.
Proverbs 11:29
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29 He who troubles his household will inherit wind,
and the fool will be servant to the wise.
Proverbs 13:1
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13 A wise son hears his father’s instruction,
but a scoffer does not listen to rebuke.
Proverbs 15:5
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5 A fool despises his father’s instruction,
but he who heeds admonition is prudent.
Proverbs 15:20
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20 A wise son makes a glad father,
but a foolish man despises his mother.
Proverbs 17:6
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6 Grandchildren are the crown of the aged,
and the glory of sons is their fathers.
Proverbs 17:17
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17 A friend loves at all times,
and a brother is born for adversity.
Proverbs 17:21
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21 A stupid son is a grief to a father;
and the father of a fool has no joy.
Proverbs 17:25
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25 A foolish son is a grief to his father
and bitterness to her who bore him.
Proverbs 18:19
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19 A brother helped is like a strong city,[a]
but quarreling is like the bars of a castle.
Footnotes
- Proverbs 18:19 Gk Syr Vg Tg: The meaning of the Hebrew is uncertain
Proverbs 19:13-14
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13 A foolish son is ruin to his father,
and a wife’s quarreling is a continual dripping of rain.
14 House and wealth are inherited from fathers,
but a prudent wife is from the Lord.
Proverbs 19:26-27
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26 He who does violence to his father and chases away his mother
is a son who causes shame and brings reproach.
27 Cease, my son, to hear instruction
only to stray from the words of knowledge.
Proverbs 20:20
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20 If one curses his father or his mother,
his lamp will be put out in utter darkness.
Proverbs 22:15
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15 Folly is bound up in the heart of a child,
but the rod of discipline drives it far from him.
Proverbs 22:28
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28 Remove not the ancient landmark
which your fathers have set.
Proverbs 23:22
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22 Hearken to your father who begot you,
and do not despise your mother when she is old.
Proverbs 23:24-25
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24 The father of the righteous will greatly rejoice;
he who begets a wise son will be glad in him.
25 Let your father and mother be glad,
let her who bore you rejoice.
Proverbs 27:8
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8 Like a bird that strays from its nest,
is a man who strays from his home.
Proverbs 27:10
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10 Your friend, and your father’s friend, do not forsake;
and do not go to your brother’s house in the day of your calamity.
Better is a neighbor who is near
than a brother who is far away.
Proverbs 28:7
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7 He who keeps the law is a wise son,
but a companion of gluttons shames his father.
Proverbs 28:24
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24 He who robs his father or his mother
and says, “That is no transgression,”
is the companion of a man who destroys.
Proverbs 29:3
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3 He who loves wisdom makes his father glad,
but one who keeps company with harlots squanders his substance.
Proverbs 30:17
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17 The eye that mocks a father
and scorns to obey a mother
will be picked out by the ravens of the valley
and eaten by the vultures.
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