Proverbs 4:1
New King James Version
Security in Wisdom
4 Hear, (A)my children, the instruction of a father,
And give attention to know understanding;
Proverbs 4:1
American Standard Version
4 Hear, my sons, the instruction of a father,
And attend to know understanding:
Proverbs 6:20
New King James Version
Beware of Adultery
20 (A)My son, keep your father’s command,
And do not forsake the law of your mother.
Proverbs 6:20
American Standard Version
20 My son, keep the commandment of thy father,
And forsake not the [a]law of thy mother:
Footnotes
- Proverbs 6:20 Or, teaching
Proverbs 19:13
New King James Version
13 (A)A foolish son is the ruin of his father,
(B)And the contentions of a wife are a continual [a]dripping.
Footnotes
- Proverbs 19:13 Irritation
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 19:14
New King James Version
Proverbs 19:14
American Standard Version
14 House and riches are an inheritance from fathers;
But a prudent wife is from Jehovah.
Proverbs 22:28
New King James Version
Footnotes
- Proverbs 22:28 boundary
Proverbs 22:28
American Standard Version
28 Remove not the ancient landmark,
Which thy fathers have set.
Proverbs 23:22-25
New King James Version
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.
Proverbs 23:22-25
American Standard Version
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.
Proverbs 29:3
New King James Version
3 Whoever loves wisdom makes his father rejoice,
But a companion of harlots wastes his wealth.
Proverbs 29:3
American Standard Version
3 Whoso loveth wisdom rejoiceth his father;
But he that keepeth company with harlots wasteth his substance.
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