Proverbs 6:20
¶ My son, keep thy father's commandment, and forsake not the law of thy mother:
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Referenced Verses
- Eph 6:1 : 1 ¶ Children, obey your parents in the Lord: for this is right.
- Deut 21:18 : 18 ¶ If a man have a stubborn and rebellious son, which will not obey the voice of his father, or the voice of his mother, and [that], when they have chastened him, will not hearken unto them:
- Deut 27:16 : 16 Cursed [be] he that setteth light by his father or his mother. And all the people shall say, Amen.
- Prov 1:8-9 : 8 My son, hear the instruction of thy father, and forsake not the law of thy mother: 9 For they [shall be] an ornament of grace unto thy head, and chains about thy neck.
- Prov 7:1-4 : 1 ¶ My son, keep my words, and lay up my commandments with thee. 2 Keep my commandments, and live; and my law as the apple of thine eye. 3 Bind them upon thy fingers, write them upon the table of thine heart. 4 Say unto wisdom, Thou [art] my sister; and call understanding [thy] kinswoman:
- Prov 23:22 : 22 Hearken unto thy father that begat thee, and despise not thy mother when she is old.
- Prov 30:11 : 11 [There is] a generation [that] curseth their father, and doth not bless their mother.
Similar Verses (AI)
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- Prov 1:8-92 verses90%
8 My son, hear the instruction of thy father, and forsake not the law of thy mother:
9 For they [shall be] an ornament of grace unto thy head, and chains about thy neck.
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1 ¶ My son, forget not my law; but let thine heart keep my commandments:
- Prov 6:21-222 verses84%
21 Bind them continually upon thine heart, [and] tie them about thy neck.
22 When thou goest, it shall lead thee; when thou sleepest, it shall keep thee; and [when] thou awakest, it shall talk with thee.
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22 Hearken unto thy father that begat thee, and despise not thy mother when she is old.
- Prov 7:1-22 verses81%
1 ¶ My son, keep my words, and lay up my commandments with thee.
2 Keep my commandments, and live; and my law as the apple of thine eye.
- Eph 6:1-44 verses79%
1 ¶ Children, obey your parents in the Lord: for this is right.
2 Honour thy father and mother; (which is the first commandment with promise;)
3 That it may be well with thee, and thou mayest live long on the earth.
4 And, ye fathers, provoke not your children to wrath: but bring them up in the nurture and admonition of the Lord.
- Prov 4:1-66 verses79%
1 ¶ Hear, ye children, the instruction of a father, and attend to know understanding.
2 For I give you good doctrine, forsake ye not my law.
3 For I was my father's son, tender and only [beloved] in the sight of my mother.
4 He taught me also, and said unto me, Let thine heart retain my words: keep my commandments, and live.
5 Get wisdom, get understanding: forget [it] not; neither decline from the words of my mouth.
6 Forsake her not, and she shall preserve thee: love her, and she shall keep thee.
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6 ¶ Train up a child in the way he should go: and when he is old, he will not depart from it.
- Prov 19:26-272 verses77%
26 ¶ He that wasteth [his] father, [and] chaseth away [his] mother, [is] a son that causeth shame, and bringeth reproach.
27 ¶ Cease, my son, to hear the instruction [that causeth] to err from the words of knowledge.
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16 Honour thy father and thy mother, as the LORD thy God hath commanded thee; that thy days may be prolonged, and that it may go well with thee, in the land which the LORD thy God giveth thee.
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12 ¶ Honour thy father and thy mother: that thy days may be long upon the land which the LORD thy God giveth thee.
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1 ¶ My son, if thou wilt receive my words, and hide my commandments with thee;
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26 My son, give me thine heart, and let thine eyes observe my ways.
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20 ¶ A wise son maketh a glad father: but a foolish man despiseth his mother.
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7 Hear me now therefore, O ye children, and depart not from the words of my mouth.
- Prov 4:20-212 verses75%
20 ¶ My son, attend to my words; incline thine ear unto my sayings.
21 Let them not depart from thine eyes; keep them in the midst of thine heart.
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18 ¶ If a man have a stubborn and rebellious son, which will not obey the voice of his father, or the voice of his mother, and [that], when they have chastened him, will not hearken unto them:
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8 Now therefore, my son, obey my voice according to that which I command thee.
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20 [And] when thy son asketh thee in time to come, saying, What [mean] the testimonies, and the statutes, and the judgments, which the LORD our God hath commanded you?
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21 ¶ My son, let not them depart from thine eyes: keep sound wisdom and discretion:
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19 ‹Honour thy father and› [thy] ‹mother: and, Thou shalt love thy neighbour as thyself.›
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11 [There is] a generation [that] curseth their father, and doth not bless their mother.
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15 My son, walk not thou in the way with them; refrain thy foot from their path:
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1 ¶ My son, attend unto my wisdom, [and] bow thine ear to my understanding:
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20 ¶ Whoso curseth his father or his mother, his lamp shall be put out in obscure darkness.
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24 To keep thee from the evil woman, from the flattery of the tongue of a strange woman.
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4 ‹For God commanded, saying, Honour thy father and mother: and, He that curseth father or mother, let him die the death.›
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16 Cursed [be] he that setteth light by his father or his mother. And all the people shall say, Amen.
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2 What, my son? and what, the son of my womb? and what, the son of my vows?
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20 And why wilt thou, my son, be ravished with a strange woman, and embrace the bosom of a stranger?
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1 ¶ The proverbs of Solomon. A wise son maketh a glad father: but a foolish son [is] the heaviness of his mother.
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7 And thou shalt teach them diligently unto thy children, and shalt talk of them when thou sittest in thine house, and when thou walkest by the way, and when thou liest down, and when thou risest up.
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17 ¶ Ye shall diligently keep the commandments of the LORD your God, and his testimonies, and his statutes, which he hath commanded thee.
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2 That thou mightest fear the LORD thy God, to keep all his statutes and his commandments, which I command thee, thou, and thy son, and thy son's son, all the days of thy life; and that thy days may be prolonged.
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19 A false witness [that] speaketh lies, and he that soweth discord among brethren.
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18 ¶ Chasten thy son while there is hope, and let not thy soul spare for his crying.