Proverbs 6:20

Bible in Basic English 1965

My son, keep the rule of your father, and have in memory the teaching of your mother:

Cross References

Proverbs 23:22

Give ear to your father whose child you are, and do not keep honour from your mother when she is old.

Proverbs 30:11

There is a generation who put a curse on their father, and do not give a blessing to their mother.

Proverbs 5:1

My son, give attention to my wisdom; let your ear be turned to my teaching:

Proverbs 5:5

Her feet go down to death, and her steps to the underworld;

Proverbs 7:7

I saw among the young men one without sense,

Jeremiah 35:8

And we have kept the rules of Jonadab, the son of Rechab our father, in everything which he gave us orders to do, drinking no wine all our days, we and our wives and our sons and our daughters;

Ephesians 6:1

Children, do what is ordered by your fathers and mothers in the Lord: for this is right.

Deuteronomy 21:18

If a man has a son who is hard-hearted and uncontrolled, who gives no attention to the voice of his father and mother, and will not be ruled by them, though they give him punishment:

Deuteronomy 27:16

Cursed is he who does not give honour to his father or mother. And let all the people say, So be it.