Bible verse

Proverbs 1:8

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

Proverbs 1:8 · BSB

Proverbs 1:8 in context

The verses around it, from Proverbs 1.

4 To impart prudence to the simple and knowledge and discretion to the young,

5 let the wise listen and gain instruction, and the discerning acquire wise counsel

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.

11 If they say, “Come along, let us lie in wait for blood, let us ambush the innocent without cause,

12 let us swallow them alive like Sheol, and whole like those descending into the Pit.

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Proverbs 1:8 in other translations

KJV

My son, hear the instruction of thy father, and forsake not the law of thy mother:

ASV

My son, hear the instruction of thy father, And forsake not the law of thy mother:

ERV

My son, hear the instruction of thy father, and forsake not the law of thy mother:

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