Proverbs 1:8

WEB

⁸My son, listen to your father’s instruction, and don’t forsake your mother’s teaching;

KJV

⁸My son^[+], hear the instruction of thy father, and forsake not the law of thy mother:

BSB

⁸Listen, my son, to your father’s instruction, and do not forsake the teaching of your mother.

FBV

⁸My son, pay attention to your father's instruction, and don't reject your mother's teaching.

Related Resources

‘I Do Not Permit a Woman to Teach’: 1 Timothy 2:11–15, Part 1 - Desiring God
Fathers, Aim at Trusting, Obedient, Happy Children: Ephesians 6:1–4, Part 2 - Desiring God
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Extra References

Proverbs 6:20

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

Proverbs 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.

Proverbs 5:1-2

¹My son, pay attention to my wisdom. Turn your ear to my understanding, ²that you may maintain discretion, that your lips may preserve knowledge.

Proverbs 2:1

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

Proverbs 31:1

¹The words of King Lemuel—the revelation which his mother taught him:

Leviticus 19:3

³“‘Each one of you shall respect his mother and his father. You shall keep my Sabbaths. I am the LORD your God.

¹⁸If a man has 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, ¹⁹then his father and his mother shall take hold of him and bring him out to the elders of his city and to the gate of his place. ²⁰They 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.” ²¹All the men of his city shall stone him to death with stones. So you shall remove the evil from among you. All Israel shall hear, and fear.

Proverbs 1:10

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

Proverbs 4:1-4

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.

2 Timothy 1:5

⁵having 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.