Verse 8

My son, give ear to the training of your father, and do not give up the teaching of your mother:

Referenced Verses

  • Prov 6:20 : 20 My son, keep the rule of your father, and have in memory the teaching of your mother:
  • 1 Sam 2:25 : 25 If one man does wrong to another, God will be his judge: but if a man's sin is against the Lord, who will take up his cause? But they gave no attention to the voice of their father, for it was the Lord's purpose to send destruction on them.
  • Prov 2:1 : 1 My son, if you will take my words to your heart, storing up my laws in your mind;
  • Prov 4:1-4 : 1 Give ear, my sons, to the teaching of a father; give attention so that you may have knowledge: 2 For I give you good teaching; do not give up the knowledge you are getting from me. 3 For I was a son to my father, a gentle and an only one to my mother. 4 And he gave me teaching, saying to me, Keep my words in your heart; keep my rules so that you may have life:
  • Prov 5:1-2 : 1 My son, give attention to my wisdom; let your ear be turned to my teaching: 2 So that you may be ruled by a wise purpose, and your lips may keep knowledge.
  • Prov 3:1 : 1 My son, keep my teaching in your memory, and my rules in your heart:
  • Prov 1:10 : 10 My son, if sinners would take you out of the right way, do not go with them.
  • Prov 1:15 : 15 My son, do not go with them; keep your feet from their ways:
  • Lev 19:3 : 3 Let every man give honour to his mother and to his father and keep my Sabbaths: I am the Lord your God.
  • Deut 21:18-21 : 18 If a man has a son who is hard-hearted and uncontrolled, who gives no attention to the voice of his father and mother, and will not be ruled by them, though they give him punishment: 19 Then let his father and mother take him to the responsible men of the town, to the public place; 20 And say to them, This son of ours is hard-hearted and uncontrolled, he will not give attention to us; he gives himself up to pleasure and strong drink. 21 Then he is to be stoned to death by all the men of the town: so you are to put away the evil from among you; and all Israel, hearing of it, will be full of fear.
  • Prov 7:1 : 1 My son, keep my sayings, and let my rules be stored up with you.
  • Prov 30:17 : 17 The eye which makes sport of a father, and sees no value in a mother when she is old will be rooted out by the ravens of the valley, and be food for the young eagles.
  • Prov 31:1 : 1 The words of Lemuel, king of Massa: the teaching which he had from his mother.
  • Matt 9:2 : 2 And they took to him a man stretched on a bed who had no power of moving; and Jesus, seeing their faith, said to the man who was ill, Son, take heart; you have forgiveness for your sins.
  • Matt 9:22 : 22 But Jesus, turning and seeing her, said, Daughter, take heart; your faith has made you well. And the woman was made well from that hour.
  • 2 Tim 1:5 : 5 Having in mind your true faith, which first was in your mother's mother Lois, and in your mother Eunice, and, I am certain, is now in you.