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Proverbs 4:1 (Listen)

A Father's Wise Instruction

fHear, O sons, a father's instruction,

and be attentive, that you may ggain1 insight,

Footnotes

[1] 4:1 Hebrew know

Proverbs 6:20 (Listen)

Warnings Against Adultery

20 lMy son, keep your father's commandment,

land forsake not your mother's teaching.

Proverbs 19:13 (Listen)

13 tA foolish son is ruin to his father,

and ua wife's quarreling is va continual dripping of rain.

Proverbs 19:14 (Listen)

14 wHouse and wealth are inherited from fathers,

but a prudent wife is xfrom the Lord.

Proverbs 22:28 (Listen)

28 Do not move the ancient alandmark

that your fathers have set.

Proverbs 23:22-25 (Listen)

22 cListen to your father who gave you life,

dand do not despise your mother when she is old.

23 eBuy truth, and do not sell it;

buy wisdom, instruction, and understanding.

24 fThe father of the righteous will greatly rejoice;

he who fathers a wise son will be glad in him.

25 fLet your father and mother be glad;

let gher who bore you rejoice.

Proverbs 29:3 (Listen)

He who eloves wisdom makes his father glad,

but fa companion of prostitutes gsquanders his wealth.