Proverbs 23:22

Modern English Version

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

Cross References

Proverbs 30:17

The eye that mocks a father and scorns to obey a mother, the ravens of the valley will pluck it out, and the young vultures will eat it.

Proverbs 1:8

My son, hear the instruction of your father, and do not forsake the teaching of your mother;

Proverbs 6:20

My son, keep your father’s commandment, and do not forsake the teaching of your mother.

Deuteronomy 27:16

“Cursed is he who disrespects his father or his mother.” And all the people shall say, “Amen.”

Leviticus 19:3

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

Mark 7:10

For Moses said, ‘Honor your father and your mother,’ and, ‘Whoever curses father or mother, let him be put to death.’

Proverbs 30:11

There is a generation that curses its father, and does not bless its mother.

Leviticus 19:32

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

Proverbs 15:20

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