Proverbs 6:20

WEB

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

KJV

²⁰¶ My son, keep thy father’s commandment, and forsake not the law of thy mother:

BSB

²⁰My son, keep your father’s commandment, and do not forsake your mother’s teaching.

FBV

²⁰My son, pay attention to your father's instruction, and don't reject your mother's teaching.

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Extra References

Ephesians 6:1

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

Deuteronomy 27:16

¹⁶‘Cursed is he who dishonors his father or his mother.’ All the people shall say, ‘Amen.’

¹My son, keep my words. Lay up my commandments within you. ²Keep my commandments and live! Guard my teaching as the apple of your eye. ³Bind them on your fingers. Write them on the tablet of your heart. ⁴Tell wisdom, “You are my sister.” Call understanding your relative,

Proverbs 1:8-9

⁸My son, listen to your father’s instruction, and don’t forsake your mother’s teaching; ⁹for they will be a garland to grace your head, and chains around your neck.

Proverbs 23:22

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

Proverbs 30:11

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

Deuteronomy 21:18

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,