Proverbs 6:20 - Revised Version with Apocrypha 1895

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

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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.

Douay-Rheims version of The Bible - 1752 version

²⁰ My son, beep the commandments of thy father, and forsake not the law of thy mother.

Proverbs 6:20 Cross References

Proverbs 23:22

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

Proverbs 30:11

There is a generation that curseth their father, And doth not bless their mother.

Proverbs 5:1

My son, attend unto my wisdom; Incline thine ear to my understanding:

Proverbs 5:5

Her feet go down to death; Her steps take hold on Sheol;

Proverbs 7:7

And I beheld among the simple ones, I discerned among the youths, A young man void of understanding,

Jeremiah 35:8

And we have obeyed the voice of Jonadab the son of Rechab our father in all that he charged us, to drink no wine all our days, we, our wives, our sons, nor our daughters;

Ephesians 6:1

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

Deuteronomy 21:18

If a man have a stubborn and rebellious son, which will not obey the voice of his father, or the voice of his mother, and though they chasten him, will not hearken unto them:

Deuteronomy 27:16

Cursed be he that setteth light by his father or his mother. And all the people shall say, Amen.