Proverbs 6:20
My son, keep your father's commandment, And don't forsake your mother's teaching.
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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, 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;
- Deut 27:16 : 16 Cursed be he who sets light by his father or his mother. All the people shall say, Amen.
- Prov 1:8-9 : 8 My son, listen to your father's instruction, And don't forsake your mother's teaching: 9 For they will be a garland to grace your head, And chains around your neck.
- Prov 7:1-4 : 1 My son, keep my words. Lay up my commandments within you. 2 Keep my commandments and live; Guard my teaching as the apple of your eye. 3 Bind them on your fingers. Write them on the tablet of your heart. 4 Tell wisdom, "You are my sister." Call understanding your relative,
- Prov 23:22 : 22 Listen to your father who gave you life, And don't despise your mother when she is old.
- Prov 30:11 : 11 There is a generation that curses their father, And doesn't bless their mother.
Similar Verses (AI)
These verses are found using AI-powered semantic similarity based on meaning and context. Results may occasionally include unexpected connections.
- Prov 1:8-92 verses90%
8 My son, listen to your father's instruction, And don't forsake your mother's teaching:
9 For they will be a garland to grace your head, And chains around your neck.
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1 My son, don't forget my teaching; But let your heart keep my commandments:
- Prov 6:21-222 verses84%
21 Bind them continually on your heart. Tie them around your neck.
22 When you walk, it will lead you. When you sleep, it will watch over you. When you awake, it will talk with you.
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22 Listen to your father who gave you life, And don't despise your mother when she is old.
- Prov 7:1-22 verses81%
1 My son, keep my words. Lay up my commandments within you.
2 Keep my commandments and live; Guard my teaching as the apple of your eye.
- Eph 6:1-44 verses79%
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:
3 "that it may be well with you, and you may live long on the earth."
4 You fathers, don't provoke your children to wrath, but nurture them in the discipline and instruction of the Lord.
- Prov 4:1-66 verses79%
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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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 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.
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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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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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1 My son, if you will receive my words, And store up my commandments within you;
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26 My son, give me your heart; And let your eyes keep in my ways.
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20 A wise son makes a father glad, But a foolish man despises his mother.
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7 Now therefore, my sons, listen to me. Don't depart from the words of my mouth.
- Prov 4:20-212 verses75%
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.
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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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8 Now therefore, my son, obey my voice according to that which I command you.
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20 When your son asks you in time to come, saying, What mean the testimonies, and the statutes, and the ordinances, which Yahweh our God has commanded you?
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21 My son, let them not depart from your eyes. Keep sound wisdom and discretion:
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19 'Honor your father and mother.' And, 'You shall love your neighbor as yourself.'"
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11 There is a generation that curses their father, And doesn't bless their mother.
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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 My son, pay attention to my wisdom. Turn your ear to my understanding:
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20 Whoever curses his father or his mother, His lamp shall be put out in blackness of darkness.
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24 To keep you from the immoral woman, From the flattery of the wayward wife's tongue.
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4 For God commanded, 'Honor your father and your mother,' and, 'He who speaks evil of father or mother, let him be put to death.'
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16 Cursed be he who sets light by his father or his mother. All the people shall say, Amen.
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2 "Oh, my son!" Oh, son of my womb! Oh, son of my vows!
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20 For why should you, my son, be captivated with an adulteress? Why embrace the bosom of another?
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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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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.
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17 You shall diligently keep the commandments of Yahweh your God, and his testimonies, and his statutes, which he has commanded you.
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2 that you might fear Yahweh your God, to keep all his statutes and his commandments, which I command you, you, and your son, and your son's son, all the days of your life; and that your days may be prolonged.
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19 A false witness who utters lies, And he who sows discord among brothers.
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18 Discipline your son, for there is hope; Don't be a willing party to his death.