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Proverbs 1:8
Proverbs 1:8 is verse 8 of Proverbs chapter 1, shown here in the Berean Standard Bible.
Berean Standard Bible
Listen, my son, to your father’s instruction, and do not forsake the teaching of your mother.
King James Version
My son, hear the instruction of thy father, and forsake not the law of thy mother:
World English Bible
My son, listen to your father’s instruction, and don’t forsake your mother’s teaching;
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Proverbs 1:6–10 · Berean Standard Bible
6 by understanding the proverbs and parables, the sayings and riddles of the wise.
7 The fear of the LORD is the beginning of knowledge, but fools despise wisdom and discipline.
8 Listen, my son, to your father’s instruction, and do not forsake the teaching of your mother.
9 For they are a garland of grace on your head and a pendant around your neck.
10 My son, if sinners entice you, do not yield to them.
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Cross-references
The Treasury of Scripture Knowledge lists these related verses. Scripture text comes from the Berean Standard Bible.
Proverbs 1:10My son, if sinners entice you, do not yield to them.
Proverbs 1:15my son, do not walk the road with them or set foot upon their path.
Proverbs 2:1My son, if you accept my words and hide my commandments within you,
Proverbs 3:1My son, do not forget my teaching, but let your heart keep my commandments;
Proverbs 7:1My son, keep my words and treasure my commandments within you.
Matthew 9:2Just then some men brought to Him a paralytic lying on a mat. When Jesus saw their faith, He said to the paralytic, “Take courage, son; your sins are forgiven.”
Matthew 9:22Jesus turned and saw her. “Take courage, daughter,” He said, “your faith has healed you.” And the woman was cured from that very hour.
Proverbs 4:1Listen, my sons, to a father’s instruction; pay attention and gain understanding.
Proverbs 4:2For I give you sound teaching; do not abandon my directive.
Proverbs 4:3When I was a son to my father, tender and the only child of my mother,
Proverbs 4:4he taught me and said, “Let your heart lay hold of my words; keep my commands and you will live.
Proverbs 5:1My son, pay attention to my wisdom; incline your ear to my insight,
Proverbs 5:2that you may maintain discretion and your lips may preserve knowledge.
Proverbs 6:20My son, keep your father’s commandment, and do not forsake your mother’s teaching.
Proverbs 30:17As for the eye that mocks a father and scorns obedience to a mother, may the ravens of the valley pluck it out and young vultures devour it.
Proverbs 31:1These are the words of King Lemuel—the burden that his mother taught him:
Leviticus 19:3Each of you must respect his mother and father, and you must keep My Sabbaths. I am the LORD your God.
Deuteronomy 21:18If a man has a stubborn and rebellious son who does not obey his father and mother and does not listen to them when disciplined,
Deuteronomy 21:19his father and mother are to lay hold of him and bring him to the elders of his city, to the gate of his hometown,
Deuteronomy 21:20and say to the elders, “This son of ours is stubborn and rebellious; he does not obey us. He is a glutton and a drunkard.”
Deuteronomy 21:21Then all the men of his city will stone him to death. So you must purge the evil from among you, and all Israel will hear and be afraid.
1 Samuel 2:25If a man sins against another man, God can intercede for him; but if a man sins against the LORD, who can intercede for him?” But they would not listen to their father, since the LORD intended to put them to death.
2 Timothy 1:5I am reminded of your sincere faith, which first dwelt in your grandmother Lois and your mother Eunice, and I am convinced is in you as well.