Proverbs 23:22

Modern King James Version

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

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

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

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

The eye that mocks at his father and despises to obey his mother, the ravens of the valley shall pick it out, and the young eagles shall eat it.

My son, keep your father's commandments, and do not forsake the law of your mother;

You shall each man revere his mother and his father, and keep My sabbaths. I am Jehovah your God.

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

For Moses said, "Honor your father and your mother." And, "Whoever curses father or mother, let him die the death."

Cursed is he who thinks lightly of his father or his mother. And all the people shall say, Amen.