Proverbs 19:26

New Revised Standard Version Updated Edition 2021

Those who do violence to their father and chase away their mother are children who cause shame and bring reproach.

Cross References

Proverbs 10:1

The proverbs of Solomon. A wise child makes a glad father, but a foolish child is a mother’s grief.

Proverbs 10:5

A child who gathers in summer is prudent, but a child who sleeps in harvest brings shame.

Proverbs 17:2

A slave who deals wisely will rule over a child who acts shamefully and will share the inheritance as one of the family.

Proverbs 17:25

Foolish children are a grief to their father and bitterness to her who bore them.

Proverbs 19:27

My child, stop ignoring instruction, straying from words of knowledge.

Proverbs 28:14

Happy is the one who is never without fear, but one who is hard-hearted will fall into calamity.

Proverbs 28:24

Anyone who robs father or mother and says, “That is no crime,” is partner to a thug.

Proverbs 28:7

Those who keep the law are wise children, but companions of gluttons shame their parents.

Proverbs 30:11

There are those who curse their fathers and do not bless their mothers.

Proverbs 30:17

The eye that mocks a father and scorns to obey a mother will be pecked out by the ravens of the valley and eaten by the vultures.

Luke 15:30

But when this son of yours came back, who has devoured your assets with prostitutes, you killed the fatted calf for him!’