Proverbs 1:8 - English Standard Version 2016 Hear, my son, your father’s instruction, and forsake not your mother’s teaching, Tuilleadh leaganachaKing James Version (Oxford) 1769 My son, hear the instruction of thy father, And forsake not the law of thy mother: Amplified Bible - Classic Edition My son, hear the instruction of your father; reject not nor forsake the teaching of your mother. American Standard Version (1901) My son, hear the instruction of thy father, And forsake not the law of thy mother: Common English Bible Listen, my son, to your father’s instruction; don’t neglect your mother’s teaching; Catholic Public Domain Version Listen, my son, to the discipline of your father, and forsake not the law of your mother, Douay-Rheims version of The Bible - 1752 version My son, hear the instruction of thy father, and forsake not the law of thy mother: |
my son, do not walk in the way with them; hold back your foot from their paths,
My son, if you receive my words and treasure up my commandments with you,
Listen to your father who gave you life, and do not despise your mother when she is old.
My son, do not forget my teaching, but let your heart keep my commandments,
The eye that mocks a father and scorns to obey a mother will be picked out by the ravens of the valley and eaten by the vultures.
I did not listen to the voice of my teachers or incline my ear to my instructors.
My son, keep your father’s commandment, and forsake not your mother’s teaching.
We have obeyed the voice of Jonadab the son of Rechab, our father, in all that he commanded us, to drink no wine all our days, ourselves, our wives, our sons, or our daughters,
Every one of you shall revere his mother and his father, and you shall keep my Sabbaths: I am the Lord your God.
And behold, some people brought to him a paralytic, lying on a bed. And when Jesus saw their faith, he said to the paralytic, “Take heart, my son; your sins are forgiven.”
Jesus turned, and seeing her he said, “Take heart, daughter; your faith has made you well.” And instantly the woman was made well.
I am reminded of your sincere faith, a faith that dwelt first in your grandmother Lois and your mother Eunice and now, I am sure, dwells in you as well.
So she went down to the threshing floor and did just as her mother-in-law had commanded her.
If someone sins against a man, God will mediate for him, but if someone sins against the Lord, who can intercede for him?” But they would not listen to the voice of their father, for it was the will of the Lord to put them to death.