Proverbs 6:20

Modern English Version

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

Cross References

Proverbs 23:22

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

Proverbs 30:11

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

Proverbs 5:1

My son, be attentive to my wisdom; incline your ear to my understanding,

Proverbs 5:5

Her feet go down to death, her steps take hold of Sheol.

Proverbs 7:7

and I saw among the simple ones, I discerned among the youths, a young man lacking understanding,

Jeremiah 35:8

Thus we have obeyed the voice of Jonadab the son of Rekab, our father, in all that he has 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 has a stubborn and rebellious son, who will not obey the voice of his father or the voice of his mother, and who, when they have disciplined him, will not listen to them,

Deuteronomy 27:16

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