Proverbs 1:8 - New Revised Standard Version Updated Edition 2021

⁸ Hear, my child, your father’s instruction, and do not reject your mother’s teaching,

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King James Version (Oxford) 1769

⁸ My son, hear the instruction of thy father, And forsake not the law of thy mother:

Amplified Bible - Classic Edition

⁸ My son, hear the instruction of your father; reject not nor forsake the teaching of your mother.

American Standard Version (1901)

⁸ My son, hear the instruction of thy father, And forsake not the law of thy mother:

Common English Bible

⁸ Listen, my son, to your father’s instruction; don’t neglect your mother’s teaching;

Catholic Public Domain Version

⁸ Listen, my son, to the discipline of your father, and forsake not the law of your mother,

Proverbs 1:8 Cross References

Proverbs 6:20

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

Proverbs 30:17

The eye that mocks a father and scorns to obey a mother will be pecked out by the ravens of the valley and eaten by the vultures.

Proverbs 2:1

My child, if you accept my words and treasure up my commandments within you,

Proverbs 31:1

The words of King Lemuel. An oracle that his mother taught him:

Proverbs 1:10

My child, if sinners entice you, do not consent.

Leviticus 19:3

You shall each revere your mother and father, and you shall keep my Sabbaths: I am the Lord your God.

2 Timothy 1:5

I am reminded of your sincere faith, a faith that lived first in your grandmother Lois and your mother Eunice and now, I am sure, lives in you.

Proverbs 7:1

My child, keep my words and store up my commandments with you;

Proverbs 3:1

My child, do not forget my teaching, but let your heart keep my commandments,

Proverbs 1:15

my child, do not walk in their way; keep your foot from their paths,

1 Samuel 2:25

If one person sins against another, someone can intercede for the sinner with the Lord, but if someone sins against the Lord, who can make intercession?” But they would not listen to the voice of their father, for it was the will of the Lord to kill them.

Matthew 9:22

Jesus turned, and seeing her he said, “Take heart, daughter; your faith has made you well.” And the woman was made well from that moment.

Matthew 9:2

And some people were carrying to him a paralyzed man lying on a stretcher. When Jesus saw their faith, he said to the paralytic, “Take heart, child; your sins are forgiven.”

Proverbs 5:13

I did not listen to the voice of my teachers or incline my ear to my instructors.

Proverbs 23:22

Listen to your father who begot you, and do not despise your mother when she is old.

Jeremiah 35:8

We have obeyed the charge of our ancestor Jonadab son of Rechab in all that he commanded us, to drink no wine all our days, ourselves, our wives, our sons, or our daughters,

Ruth 3:6

So she went down to the threshing floor and did just as her mother-in-law had instructed her.