Proverbs 23:22

Modern English Version

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

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

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

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

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.

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

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

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

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

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