Verse 20

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