Proverbs 19:26 - New Revised Standard Version Updated Edition 2021

²⁶ Those who do violence to their father and chase away their mother are children who cause shame and bring reproach.

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King James Version (Oxford) 1769

²⁶ He that wasteth his father, and chaseth away his mother, Is a son that causeth shame, and bringeth reproach.

Amplified Bible - Classic Edition

²⁶ He who does violence to his father and chases away his mother is a son who causes shame and brings reproach.

American Standard Version (1901)

²⁶ He that doeth violence to his father, and chaseth away his mother, Is a son that causeth shame and bringeth reproach.

Common English Bible

²⁶ Those who assault their father and drive out their mother are disgraceful children, worthy of reproach.

Catholic Public Domain Version

²⁶ Whoever afflicts his father and flees from his mother is disreputable and unhappy.

Proverbs 19:26 Cross References

Proverbs 17:2

A slave who deals wisely will rule over a child who acts shamefully and will share the inheritance as one of the family.

Proverbs 10:5

A child who gathers in summer is prudent, but a child who sleeps in harvest brings shame.

Luke 15:30

But when this son of yours came back, who has devoured your assets with prostitutes, you killed the fatted calf for him!’

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 30:11

There are those who curse their fathers and do not bless their mothers.

Proverbs 28:24

Anyone who robs father or mother and says, “That is no crime,” is partner to a thug.

Proverbs 28:14

Happy is the one who is never without fear, but one who is hard-hearted will fall into calamity.

Proverbs 28:7

Those who keep the law are wise children, but companions of gluttons shame their parents.

Proverbs 17:25

Foolish children are a grief to their father and bitterness to her who bore them.

Proverbs 10:1

The proverbs of Solomon. A wise child makes a glad father, but a foolish child is a mother’s grief.

Proverbs 19:27

My child, stop ignoring instruction, straying from words of knowledge.