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