Verse 8

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

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Referenced Verses

  • Prov 6:20 : 20 My son, keep your father's commandment, and do not forsake the law of your mother:
  • 1 Sam 2:25 : 25 If one man sins against another, the judge shall judge him: but if a man sins against the LORD, who shall intercede for him? Nevertheless, they did not listen to the voice of their father, because the LORD desired to kill them.
  • Prov 2:1 : 1 My son, if you will receive my words and hide my commandments with you;
  • Prov 4:1-4 : 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.
  • Prov 5:1-2 : 1 My son, attend to my wisdom, and incline your ear to my understanding: 2 That you may keep discretion, and that your lips may preserve knowledge.
  • Prov 3:1 : 1 My son, do not forget my law; but let your heart keep my commandments:
  • Prov 1:10 : 10 My son, if sinners entice you, do not consent.
  • Prov 1:15 : 15 My son, do not walk in the way with them, hold back your foot from their path;
  • Lev 19:3 : 3 You shall respect every man his mother and his father, and keep my sabbaths: I am the LORD your God.
  • Deut 21:18-21 : 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, 19 Then shall his father and his mother take hold of him, and bring him out to the elders of his city and to the gate of his place; 20 And they shall say to 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 And all the men of his city shall stone him with stones, that he may die: so shall you put evil away from among you; and all Israel shall hear and fear.
  • Prov 7:1 : 1 My son, keep my words and store up my commandments with you.
  • Prov 30:17 : 17 The eye that mocks his father and despises to obey his mother, the ravens of the valley shall pick it out, and the young eagles shall eat it.
  • Prov 31:1 : 1 The words of King Lemuel, the prophecy that his mother taught him.
  • Matt 9:2 : 2 And behold, they brought to him a man sick with paralysis, lying on a bed. And Jesus, seeing their faith, said to the paralyzed man, Son, be of good cheer; your sins are forgiven you.
  • Matt 9:22 : 22 But Jesus turned and saw her, he said, Daughter, be of good comfort; your faith has made you whole. And the woman was made whole from that hour.
  • 2 Tim 1:5 : 5 When I call to remembrance the sincere faith that is in you, which dwelt first in your grandmother Lois, and your mother Eunice; and I am persuaded that it is in you also.