Proverbs 4:1
World English Bible
4 Listen, sons, to a father’s instruction.
Pay attention and 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
World English Bible
20 My son, keep your father’s commandment,
and don’t forsake your mother’s teaching.
Proverbs 6:20
American Standard Version
20 My son, keep the commandment of thy father,
And forsake not the [a]law of thy mother:
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- Proverbs 6:20 Or, teaching
Proverbs 19:13
World English Bible
13 A foolish son is the calamity of his father.
A wife’s quarrels are a continual dripping.
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
World English Bible
14 House and riches are an inheritance from fathers,
but a prudent wife is from Yahweh.
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
World English Bible
28 Don’t move the ancient boundary stone
which your fathers have set up.
Proverbs 22:28
American Standard Version
28 Remove not the ancient landmark,
Which thy fathers have set.
Proverbs 23:22-25
World English Bible
22 Listen to your father who gave you life,
and don’t despise your mother when she is old.
23 Buy the truth, and don’t sell it.
Get wisdom, discipline, and understanding.
24 The father of the righteous has great joy.
Whoever fathers a wise child delights in him.
25 Let your father and your mother be glad!
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
World English Bible
3 Whoever loves wisdom brings joy to his father;
but a companion of prostitutes squanders 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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