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Proverbs 1:8-9 (Listen)

The Enticement of Sinners

8 iHear, my son, your father's instruction,

and forsake not your mother's teaching,

9 for they are ja graceful garland for your head

and kpendants for your neck.

Proverbs 3:1-2 (Listen)

Trust in the Lord with All Your Heart

3 yMy son, do not forget my teaching,

zbut let your heart keep my commandments,

2 for alength of days and years of life

and bpeace they will add to you.

Proverbs 4:1-4 (Listen)

A Father's Wise Instruction

4 fHear, O sons, a father's instruction,

and be attentive, that you may ggain1 insight,

2 for I give you good hprecepts;

do not forsake my teaching.

3 When I was a son with my father,

itender, jthe only one in the sight of my mother,

4 he ktaught me and said to me,

l“Let your heart hold fast my words;

mkeep my commandments, and live.

Footnotes

[1] 4:1 Hebrew know

Proverbs 10:1 (Listen)

The Proverbs of Solomon

10 cThe proverbs of Solomon.

dA wise son makes a glad father,

ebut a foolish son is a sorrow to his mother.

Proverbs 13:22 (Listen)

22 zA good man leaves an inheritance to his children's children,

but athe sinner's wealth is laid up for the righteous.

Proverbs 15:20 (Listen)

20 kA wise son makes a glad father,

but a foolish man despises his mother.

Proverbs 17:21 (Listen)

21 He who nsires a fool gets himself sorrow,

and the father of a fool has no joy.

Proverbs 17:25 (Listen)

25 nA foolish son is a grief to his father

tand bitterness to uher who bore him.

Proverbs 19:18 (Listen)

18 fDiscipline your son, for there is hope;

do not set your heart on gputting him to death.

Proverbs 19:26 (Listen)

26 He who does violence to his father and chases away his mother

is ua son who brings shame and reproach.

Proverbs 20:7 (Listen)

7 The righteous who jwalks in his integrity—

kblessed are his children after him!

Proverbs 22:6 (Listen)

6 wTrain up a child in the way he should go;

even when he is old he will not depart from it.

Proverbs 22:15 (Listen)

15 Folly is bound up in the heart of a child,

but nthe rod of discipline drives it far from him.

Proverbs 23:13-14 (Listen)

13 Do not withhold ndiscipline from a child;

oif you strike him with a rod, he will not die.

14 If you strike him with the rod,

you will psave his soul from Sheol.

Proverbs 29:15 (Listen)

15 vThe rod and reproof give wisdom,

but a child left to himself wbrings shame to his mother.

Proverbs 29:17 (Listen)

17 yDiscipline your son, and he will give you rest;

he will give delight to your heart.

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