Proverbs 1:8
My son, listen to your father's instruction, And don't forsake your mother's teaching:
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Referenced Verses
- Prov 6:20 : 20 My son, keep your father's commandment, And don't forsake your mother's teaching.
- 1 Sam 2:25 : 25 If one man sin against another, God shall judge him; but if a man sin against Yahweh, who shall entreat for him? Notwithstanding, they didn't listen to the voice of their father, because Yahweh was minded to kill them.
- Prov 2:1 : 1 My son, if you will receive my words, And store up my commandments within you;
- Prov 4:1-4 : 1 Listen, sons, to a father's instruction. Pay attention and know understanding; 2 For I give you sound learning. Don't forsake my law. 3 For I was a son to my father, Tender and an only child in the sight of my mother. 4 He taught me, and said to me: "Let your heart retain my words. Keep my commandments, and live.
- Prov 5:1-2 : 1 My son, pay attention to my wisdom. Turn your ear to my understanding: 2 That you may maintain discretion, That your lips may preserve knowledge.
- Prov 3:1 : 1 My son, don't forget my teaching; But let your heart keep my commandments:
- Prov 1:10 : 10 My son, if sinners entice you, don't consent.
- Prov 1:15 : 15 My son, don't walk in the way with them. Keep your foot from their path,
- Lev 19:3 : 3 "'Each one of you shall respect his mother and his father. You shall keep my Sabbaths. I am Yahweh your God.
- Deut 21:18-21 : 18 If a man have a stubborn and rebellious son, who will not obey the voice of his father, or the voice of his mother, and, though they chasten him, will not listen to them; 19 then shall his father and his mother lay hold on him, and bring him out to the elders of his city, and to the gate of his place; 20 and they shall tell the elders of his city, This our son is stubborn and rebellious, he will not obey our voice; he is a glutton, and a drunkard. 21 All the men of his city shall stone him to death with stones: so shall you put away the evil from the midst of you; and all Israel shall hear, and fear.
- Prov 7:1 : 1 My son, keep my words. Lay up my commandments within you.
- Prov 30:17 : 17 The eye that mocks at his father, And scorns obedience to his mother: The ravens of the valley shall pick it out, The young eagles shall eat it.
- Prov 31:1 : 1 The words of king Lemuel; the oracle which his mother taught him.
- Matt 9:2 : 2 Behold, they brought to him a man who was paralyzed, lying on a bed. Jesus, seeing their faith, said to the paralytic, "Son, cheer up! Your sins are forgiven you."
- Matt 9:22 : 22 But Jesus, turning around and seeing her, said, "Daughter, cheer up! Your faith has made you well." And the woman was made well from that hour.
- 2 Tim 1:5 : 5 having been reminded of the unfeigned faith that is in you; which lived first in your grandmother Lois, and your mother Eunice, and, I am persuaded, in you also.
Similar Verses (AI)
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- Prov 6:20-212 verses90%
20 My son, keep your father's commandment, And don't forsake your mother's teaching.
21 Bind them continually on your heart. Tie them around your neck.
- Prov 4:1-66 verses84%
1 Listen, sons, to a father's instruction. Pay attention and know understanding;
2 For I give you sound learning. Don't forsake my law.
3 For I was a son to my father, Tender and an only child in the sight of my mother.
4 He taught me, and said to me: "Let your heart retain my words. Keep my commandments, and live.
5 Get wisdom. Get understanding. Don't forget, neither swerve from the words of my mouth.
6 Don't forsake her, and she will preserve you. Love her, and she will keep you.
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1 My son, don't forget my teaching; But let your heart keep my commandments:
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22 Listen to your father who gave you life, And don't despise your mother when she is old.
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7 The fear of Yahweh is the beginning of knowledge; But the foolish despise wisdom and instruction.
- Prov 1:9-102 verses81%
9 For they will be a garland to grace your head, And chains around your neck.
10 My son, if sinners entice you, don't consent.
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1 My son, pay attention to my wisdom. Turn your ear to my understanding:
- Prov 19:26-272 verses80%
26 He who robs his father and drives away his mother, Is a son who causes shame and brings reproach.
27 If you stop listening to instruction, my son, You will stray from the words of knowledge.
- Prov 2:1-22 verses80%
1 My son, if you will receive my words, And store up my commandments within you;
2 So as to turn your ear to wisdom, And apply your heart to understanding;
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1 My son, keep my words. Lay up my commandments within you.
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7 Now therefore, my sons, listen to me. Don't depart from the words of my mouth.
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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 4:20-212 verses78%
20 My son, attend to my words. Turn your ear to my sayings.
21 Let them not depart from your eyes. Keep them in the midst of your heart.
- Prov 8:32-332 verses78%
32 "Now therefore, my sons, listen to me, For blessed are those who keep my ways.
33 Hear instruction, and be wise. Don't refuse it.
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10 Listen, my son, and receive my sayings. The years of your life will be many.
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20 A wise son makes a father glad, But a foolish man despises his mother.
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26 My son, give me your heart; And let your eyes keep in my ways.
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1 The proverbs of Solomon. A wise son makes a glad father; But a foolish son brings grief to his mother.
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8 Now therefore, my son, obey my voice according to that which I command you.
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15 My son, don't walk in the way with them. Keep your foot from their path,
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1 A wise son listens to his father's instruction, But a scoffer doesn't listen to rebuke.
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5 A fool despises his father's correction, But he who heeds reproof shows prudence.
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11 My son, don't despise Yahweh's discipline, Neither be weary of his reproof:
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21 My son, let them not depart from your eyes. Keep sound wisdom and discretion:
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15 The rod of correction gives wisdom, But a child left to himself causes shame to his mother.
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4 You fathers, don't provoke your children to wrath, but nurture them in the discipline and instruction of the Lord.
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18 If a man have a stubborn and rebellious son, who will not obey the voice of his father, or the voice of his mother, and, though they chasten him, will not listen to them;
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12 Apply your heart to instruction, And your ears to the words of knowledge.
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16 "Honor your father and your mother, as Yahweh your God commanded you; that your days may be long, and that it may go well with you, in the land which Yahweh your God gives you.
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19 Listen, my son, and be wise, And keep your heart on the right path!
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24 Now therefore, sons, listen to me. Pay attention to the words of my mouth.
- Eph 6:1-22 verses74%
1 Children, obey your parents in the Lord, for this is right.
2 "Honor your father and mother," which is the first commandment with a promise:
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11 Be wise, my son, And bring joy to my heart, Then I can answer my tormentor.
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6 Children's children are the crown of old men; The glory of children are their parents.
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18 Discipline your son, for there is hope; Don't be a willing party to his death.
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12 "Honor your father and your mother, that your days may be long in the land which Yahweh your God gives you.
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25 A foolish son brings grief to his father, And bitterness to her who bore him.
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11 There is a generation that curses their father, And doesn't bless their mother.