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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 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 15:20
20
A wise son makes a father glad,
But a foolish man despises his mother.
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 19:26
26
He who assaults his father and causes his mother to flee
Is a son who brings shame and humiliation.
Proverbs 20:20
20
He who curses his father or his mother,
His lamp will go out in the midst of darkness.
Proverbs 30:11 - 30:12
11
There is a generation that curses its father
And does not bless its mother.
12 There is a generation that is clean in its own eyes,
Yet is not washed from its filthiness.
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