Proverbs 1:8

World English Bible (2000)

My son, listen to your father's instruction, and don't forsake your mother's teaching:

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  • 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 you shall 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 sincere 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 6:20-21
    2 verses
    90%

    20My son, keep your father's commandment, and don't forsake your mother's teaching.

    21Bind them continually on your heart. Tie them around your neck.

  • Prov 4:1-6
    6 verses
    84%

    1Listen, sons, to a father's instruction. Pay attention and know understanding;

    2for I give you sound learning. Don't forsake my law.

    3For I was a son to my father, tender and an only child in the sight of my mother.

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

    5Get wisdom. Get understanding. Don't forget, neither swerve from the words of my mouth.

    6Don't forsake her, and she will preserve you. Love her, and she will keep you.

  • Prov 3:1
    83%

    1My son, don't forget my teaching; but let your heart keep my commandments:

  • Prov 23:22
    81%

    22Listen to your father who gave you life, and don't despise your mother when she is old.

  • Prov 1:7
    81%

    7The fear of Yahweh is the beginning of knowledge; but the foolish despise wisdom and instruction.

  • Prov 1:9-10
    2 verses
    81%

    9for they will be a garland to grace your head, and chains around your neck.

    10My son, if sinners entice you, don't consent.

  • Prov 5:1
    80%

    1My son, pay attention to my wisdom. Turn your ear to my understanding:

  • Prov 19:26-27
    2 verses
    80%

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

    27If you stop listening to instruction, my son, you will stray from the words of knowledge.

  • Prov 2:1-2
    2 verses
    80%

    1My son, if you will receive my words, and store up my commandments within you;

    2So as to turn your ear to wisdom, and apply your heart to understanding;

  • Prov 7:1
    79%

    1My son, keep my words. Lay up my commandments within you.

  • Prov 5:7
    79%

    7Now therefore, my sons, listen to me. Don't depart from the words of my mouth.

  • Prov 22:6
    79%

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

  • Prov 4:20-21
    2 verses
    78%

    20My son, attend to my words. Turn your ear to my sayings.

    21Let them not depart from your eyes. Keep them in the midst of your heart.

  • Prov 8:32-33
    2 verses
    78%

    32"Now therefore, my sons, listen to me, for blessed are those who keep my ways.

    33Hear instruction, and be wise. Don't refuse it.

  • Prov 4:10
    77%

    10Listen, my son, and receive my sayings. The years of your life will be many.

  • Prov 15:20
    77%

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

  • Prov 23:26
    77%

    26My son, give me your heart; and let your eyes keep in my ways.

  • Prov 10:1
    76%

    1The proverbs of Solomon. A wise son makes a glad father; but a foolish son brings grief to his mother.

  • Gen 27:8
    76%

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

  • Prov 1:15
    76%

    15My son, don't walk in the way with them. Keep your foot from their path,

  • Prov 13:1
    76%

    1A wise son listens to his father's instruction, but a scoffer doesn't listen to rebuke.

  • Prov 15:5
    76%

    5A fool despises his father's correction, but he who heeds reproof shows prudence.

  • Prov 3:11
    75%

    11My son, don't despise Yahweh's discipline, neither be weary of his reproof:

  • Prov 3:21
    75%

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

  • Prov 29:15
    75%

    15The rod of correction gives wisdom, but a child left to himself causes shame to his mother.

  • Eph 6:4
    75%

    4You fathers, don't provoke your children to wrath, but nurture them in the discipline and instruction of the Lord.

  • Deut 21:18
    75%

    18If 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;

  • Prov 23:12
    75%

    12Apply your heart to instruction, and your ears to the words of knowledge.

  • Deut 5:16
    74%

    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.

  • Prov 23:19
    74%

    19Listen, my son, and be wise, and keep your heart on the right path!

  • Prov 7:24
    74%

    24Now therefore, sons, listen to me. Pay attention to the words of my mouth.

  • Eph 6:1-2
    2 verses
    74%

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

    2"Honor your father and mother," which is the first commandment with a promise:

  • Prov 27:11
    74%

    11Be wise, my son, and bring joy to my heart, then I can answer my tormentor.

  • Prov 17:6
    74%

    6Children's children are the crown of old men; the glory of children are their parents.

  • Prov 19:18
    73%

    18Discipline your son, for there is hope; don't be a willing party to his death.

  • Exod 20:12
    73%

    12"Honor your father and your mother, that your days may be long in the land which Yahweh your God gives you.

  • Prov 17:25
    73%

    25A foolish son brings grief to his father, and bitterness to her who bore him.

  • Prov 30:11
    73%

    11There is a generation that curses their father, and doesn't bless their mother.