Proverbs 23:22 - New Revised Standard Version Updated Edition 2021

²² Listen to your father who begot you, and do not despise your mother when she is old.

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King James Version (Oxford) 1769

²² Hearken unto thy father that begat thee, And despise not thy mother when she is old.

Amplified Bible - Classic Edition

²² Hearken to your father, who begot you, and despise not your mother when she is old.

American Standard Version (1901)

²² Hearken unto thy father that begat thee, And despise not thy mother when she is old.

Common English Bible

²² Listen to your father, who gave you life; don’t despise your elderly mother.

Catholic Public Domain Version

²² Listen to your father, who conceived you. And do not despise your mother, when she is old.

Douay-Rheims version of The Bible - 1752 version

²² Hearken to thy father, that beget thee: and despise not thy mother when she is old.

Proverbs 23:22 Cross References

Proverbs 1:8

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

Proverbs 15:20

A wise child makes a glad father, but the foolish despise their mothers.

Proverbs 30:11

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

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 6:20

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

Leviticus 19:3

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

Leviticus 19:32

“You shall rise before the aged and defer to the old, and you shall fear your God: I am the Lord.

Mark 7:10

For Moses said, ‘Honor your father and your mother,’ and, ‘Whoever speaks evil of father or mother must surely die.’

Deuteronomy 27:16

“ ‘Cursed be anyone who dishonors father or mother.’ All the people shall say, ‘Amen!’