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Proverbs 1:8 - 1:9
The Enticement of Sinners
8Hear, my son, your father’s discipline
And do not abandon your mother’s instruction;
9 For they are a garland of grace for your head
And ornaments about your neck.
Proverbs 3:1 - 3:2
Trust, Fear, and Honor Yahweh
My son, do not forget my law,
But let your heart guard my commandments;
2 For length of days and years of life
And peace they will add to you.
Proverbs 4:1 - 4:4
A Father’s Wise Instruction
Hear, O sons, the discipline of a father,
And pay attention that you may know understanding,
2 For I give you sound learning;
Do not forsake my instruction.
3 When I was a son to my father,
Tender and the only son before my mother,
4 Then he instructed me and said to me,
“Let your heart hold fast my words;
Keep my commandments and live;
Proverbs 10:1
Contrast of the Righteous and the Wicked
The proverbs of Solomon.A wise son makes a father glad,
But a foolish son is a grief to his mother.
Proverbs 13:22
22
A good man leaves an inheritance to his children’s children,
And the wealth of the sinner is stored up for the righteous.
Proverbs 15:20
20
A wise son makes a father glad,
But a foolish man despises his mother.
Proverbs 17:6
6
Grandchildren are the crown of old men,
And the beauty of sons is their fathers.
Proverbs 17:21
21
He who begets a fool does so to his grief,
And the father of a wicked fool is not glad.
Proverbs 17:25
25
A foolish son is a vexation to his father
And bitterness to her who gave birth to him.
Proverbs 19:13
13
A foolish son is destruction to his father,
And the contentions of a wife are a constant dripping.
Proverbs 19:18
18
Discipline your son while there is hope,
And do not direct your soul to put him to death.
Proverbs 19:26
26
He who assaults his father and causes his mother to flee
Is a son who brings shame and humiliation.
Proverbs 20:7
7
A righteous man who walks in his integrity—
How blessed are his sons after him.
Proverbs 22:6
6
Train up a child according to his way,
Even when he is old he will not depart from it.
Proverbs 22:15
15
Folly is bound up in the heart of a child;
The rod of discipline will remove it far from him.
Proverbs 23:13 - 23:14
13
Do not withhold discipline from the child,
Although you strike him with the rod, he will not die.
14 You shall strike him with the rod
And deliver his soul from Sheol.
Proverbs 29:15
15
The rod and reproof give wisdom,
But a child left to himself brings shame to his mother.
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