Proverbs 6:20

KJV1611 – Modern English

My son, keep your father's commandment, and do not forsake the law of your mother:

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  • Eph 6:1 : 1 Children, obey your parents in the Lord, for this is right.
  • Deut 21:18 : 18 If a man has a stubborn and rebellious son, who will not obey the voice of his father or the voice of his mother, and who, when they have chastened him, will not listen to them,
  • Deut 27:16 : 16 Cursed be he who dishonors his father or his mother. And all the people shall say, Amen.
  • Prov 1:8-9 : 8 My son, hear the instruction of your father, and do not forsake the law of your mother; 9 For they shall be a graceful ornament on your head and chains about your neck.
  • Prov 7:1-4 : 1 My son, keep my words and store up my commandments with you. 2 Keep my commandments and live, and my law as the apple of your eye. 3 Bind them on your fingers, write them on the tablet of your heart. 4 Say to wisdom, You are my sister, and call understanding your kinswoman.
  • Prov 23:22 : 22 Listen to your father who begot you, and do not despise your mother when she is old.
  • Prov 30:11 : 11 There is a generation that curses their father, and does not bless their mother.

Similar Verses (AI)

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  • Prov 1:8-9
    2 verses
    90%

    8 My son, hear the instruction of your father, and do not forsake the law of your mother;

    9 For they shall be a graceful ornament on your head and chains about your neck.

  • Prov 3:1
    84%

    1 My son, do not forget my law; but let your heart keep my commandments:

  • Prov 6:21-22
    2 verses
    84%

    21 Bind them continually upon your heart, and tie them around your neck.

    22 When you go, it shall lead you; when you sleep, it shall keep you; and when you awake, it shall talk with you.

  • Prov 23:22
    81%

    22 Listen to your father who begot you, and do not despise your mother when she is old.

  • Prov 7:1-2
    2 verses
    81%

    1 My son, keep my words and store up my commandments with you.

    2 Keep my commandments and live, and my law as the apple of your eye.

  • Eph 6:1-4
    4 verses
    79%

    1 Children, obey your parents in the Lord, for this is right.

    2 Honor your father and mother, which is the first commandment with promise;

    3 That it may be well with you, and you may live long on the earth.

    4 And, you fathers, do not provoke your children to wrath, but bring them up in the nurture and admonition of the Lord.

  • Prov 4:1-6
    6 verses
    79%

    1 Listen, you children, to the instruction of a father, and pay attention to gain understanding.

    2 For I give you good teaching, do not forsake my law.

    3 For I was my father's son, tender and dearly loved in the sight of my mother.

    4 He also taught me, and said to me, Let your heart retain my words: keep my commandments, and live.

    5 Get wisdom, get understanding: do not forget it; neither turn away from the words of my mouth.

    6 Do not forsake her, and she will preserve you: love her, and she will keep you.

  • Prov 22:6
    78%

    6 Train up a child in the way he should go, and when he is old, he will not depart from it.

  • Prov 19:26-27
    2 verses
    77%

    26 He who wastes his father, and chases away his mother, is a son who causes shame, and brings reproach.

    27 Cease, my son, to hear the instruction that causes to err from the words of knowledge.

  • Deut 5:16
    77%

    16 Honor your father and your mother, as the LORD your God has commanded you; that your days may be long, and that it may go well with you, in the land which the LORD your God gives you.

  • Exod 20:12
    77%

    12 Honor your father and your mother, that your days may be long upon the land which the LORD your God is giving you.

  • Prov 2:1
    77%

    1 My son, if you will receive my words and hide my commandments with you;

  • Prov 23:26
    77%

    26 My son, give me your heart, and let your eyes observe my ways.

  • Prov 15:20
    77%

    20 A wise son makes a glad father, but a foolish man despises his mother.

  • Prov 5:7
    75%

    7 Hear me now therefore, O children, and do not depart from the words of my mouth.

  • Prov 4:20-21
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    75%

    20 My son, pay attention to my words; incline your ear to my sayings.

    21 Do not let them depart from your eyes; keep them in the midst of your heart.

  • Deut 21:18
    75%

    18 If a man has a stubborn and rebellious son, who will not obey the voice of his father or the voice of his mother, and who, when they have chastened him, will not listen to them,

  • Gen 27:8
    75%

    8 Now therefore, my son, obey my voice according to what I command you.

  • Deut 6:20
    75%

    20 And when your son asks you in time to come, saying, What is the meaning of the testimonies, the statutes, and the judgments, which the LORD our God has commanded you?

  • Prov 3:21
    74%

    21 My son, let them not depart from your eyes: keep sound wisdom and discretion:

  • Matt 19:19
    74%

    19 Honor your father and your mother, and, You shall love your neighbor as yourself.

  • Prov 30:11
    74%

    11 There is a generation that curses their father, and does not bless their mother.

  • Prov 1:15
    74%

    15 My son, do not walk in the way with them, hold back your foot from their path;

  • Prov 5:1
    74%

    1 My son, attend to my wisdom, and incline your ear to my understanding:

  • Prov 20:20
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    20 Whoever curses his father or his mother, his lamp shall be put out in deep darkness.

  • Prov 6:24
    73%

    24 To keep you from the evil woman, from the flattery of the tongue of a strange woman.

  • Matt 15:4
    73%

    4 For God commanded, saying, Honor your father and mother: and, He that curses father or mother, let him die.

  • Deut 27:16
    73%

    16 Cursed be he who dishonors his father or his mother. And all the people shall say, Amen.

  • Prov 31:2
    73%

    2 What, my son? And what, son of my womb? And what, son of my vows?

  • Prov 5:20
    73%

    20 And why will you, my son, be ravished with a strange woman, and embrace the bosom of a stranger?

  • Prov 10:1
    73%

    1 The proverbs of Solomon. A wise son makes a glad father, but a foolish son is the heaviness of his mother.

  • Deut 6:7
    73%

    7 And you shall teach them diligently to your children, and shall talk of them when you sit in your house, and when you walk by the way, and when you lie down, and when you rise up.

  • Deut 6:17
    72%

    17 You shall diligently keep the commandments of the LORD your God, his testimonies, and his statutes, which he has commanded you.

  • Deut 6:2
    72%

    2 That you might fear the LORD your God, to keep all his statutes and his commandments, which I command you, you, and your son, and your grandson, all the days of your life; and that your days may be prolonged.

  • Prov 6:19
    72%

    19 A false witness who speaks lies, and one who sows discord among brethren.

  • Prov 19:18
    72%

    18 Chasten your son while there is hope, and do not spare for his crying.