Proverbs 23:22

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Proverbs 23:20–24 · Berean Standard Bible

20 Do not join those who drink too much wine or gorge themselves on meat.

21 For the drunkard and the glutton will come to poverty, and drowsiness will clothe them in rags.

22 Listen to your father who gave you life, and do not despise your mother when she is old.

23 Invest in truth and never sell it— in wisdom and instruction and understanding.

24 The father of a righteous man will greatly rejoice, and he who fathers a wise son will delight in him.

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The Treasury of Scripture Knowledge lists these related verses. Scripture text comes from the Berean Standard Bible.

Proverbs 1:8

Listen, my son, to your father’s instruction, and do not forsake the teaching of your mother.

Proverbs 6:20

My son, keep your father’s commandment, and do not forsake your mother’s teaching.

Deuteronomy 21:18

If 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 21:19

his 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 21:20

and 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 21:21

Then 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.

Deuteronomy 27:16

‘Cursed is he who dishonors his father or mother.’ And let all the people say, ‘Amen!’

Mark 7:10

For Moses said, ‘Honor your father and your mother’ and ‘Anyone who curses his father or mother must be put to death.’

Ephesians 6:1

Children, obey your parents in the Lord, for this is right.

Ephesians 6:2

“Honor your father and mother” (which is the first commandment with a promise),

Proverbs 30:11

There is a generation of those who curse their fathers and do not bless their mothers.

Leviticus 19:3

Each of you must respect his mother and father, and you must keep My Sabbaths. I am the LORD your God.

Matthew 15:4

For God said, ‘Honor your father and mother’ and ‘Anyone who curses his father or mother must be put to death.’

Matthew 15:5

But you say that if anyone says to his father or mother, ‘Whatever you would have received from me is a gift devoted to God,’

Matthew 15:6

he need not honor his father or mother with it. Thus you nullify the word of God for the sake of your tradition.

John 19:26

When Jesus saw His mother and the disciple whom He loved standing nearby, He said to His mother, “Woman, here is your son.”

John 19:27

Then He said to the disciple, “Here is your mother.” So from that hour, this disciple took her into his home.