Proverbs 6:20 - New Revised Standard Version Updated Edition 2021

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

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King James Version (Oxford) 1769

²⁰ My son, keep thy father's commandment, And forsake not the law of thy mother:

Amplified Bible - Classic Edition

²⁰ My son, keep your father's [God-given] commandment and forsake not the law of [God] your mother [taught you]. [Eph. 6:1-3.]

American Standard Version (1901)

²⁰ My son, keep the commandment of thy father, And forsake not the law of thy mother:

Common English Bible

²⁰ My son, keep your father’s command; don’t abandon your mother’s instruction.

Catholic Public Domain Version

²⁰ My son, preserve the precepts of your father, and do not dismiss the law of your mother.

Proverbs 6:20 Cross References

Ephesians 6:1

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

Deuteronomy 27:16

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

Proverbs 23:22

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

Proverbs 30:11

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

Deuteronomy 21:18

“If someone has a stubborn and rebellious son who will not obey his father and mother, who does not heed them when they discipline him,

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,

Proverbs 5:1

My child, be attentive to my wisdom; incline your ear to my understanding,

Proverbs 5:5

Her feet go down to death; her steps follow the path to Sheol.

Proverbs 7:7

and I saw among the simple ones, I observed among the youths, a young man without sense,