Proverbs 4:1
Revised Standard Version
Fatherly Advice
4 Hear, O sons, a father’s instruction,
and be attentive, that you may gain[a] insight;
Footnotes
- Proverbs 4:1 Heb know
Proverbs 6:20
Revised Standard Version
20 My son, keep your father’s commandment,
and forsake not your mother’s teaching.
Proverbs 19:13
Revised Standard Version
13 A foolish son is ruin to his father,
and a wife’s quarreling is a continual dripping of rain.
Proverbs 19:14
Revised Standard Version
14 House and wealth are inherited from fathers,
but a prudent wife is from the Lord.
Proverbs 22:28
Revised Standard Version
28 Remove not the ancient landmark
which your fathers have set.
Proverbs 23:22-25
Revised Standard Version
22 Hearken to your father who begot you,
and do not despise your mother when she is old.
23 Buy truth, and do not sell it;
buy wisdom, instruction, and understanding.
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 29:3
Revised Standard Version
3 He who loves wisdom makes his father glad,
but one who keeps company with harlots squanders his substance.
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