Proverbs 23:22 - Revised Standard Version (RSV-CI)

²² Hearken 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 son, your father's instruction, and reject not your mother's teaching;

Proverbs 15:20

A wise son makes a glad father, but a foolish man despises his mother.

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 picked out by the ravens of the valley and eaten by the vultures.

Proverbs 6:20

My son, keep your father's commandment, and forsake not your mother's teaching.

Leviticus 19:3

Every one of you shall revere his mother and his father, and you shall keep my sabbaths: I am the Lord your God.

Leviticus 19:32

“You shall rise up before the hoary head, and honor the face of an old man, and you shall fear your God: I am the Lord.

Mark 7:10

For Moses said, ‘Honor your father and your mother’; and, ‘He who speaks evil of father or mother, let him surely die’;

Deuteronomy 27:16

“ ‘Cursed be he who dishonors his father or his mother.’ And all the people shall say, ‘Amen.’