Proverbs 1:8

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^8–19Pay close attention, friend, to what your father tells you;

never forget what you learned at your mother’s knee.

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Proverbs 1:8: Hear, my son, your father’s instruction, and forsake not your mother’s teaching,

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ESVEnglish Standard Version

Hear, my son, your father’s instruction,

and forsake not your mother’s teaching,

NIVNew International Version (2011)

Listen, my son, to your father’s instruction

and do not forsake your mother’s teaching.

CSBChristian Standard Bible

Listen, my son, to your father’s instruction,

and don’t reject your mother’s teaching,

NLTNew Living Translation

My child, listen when your father corrects you.

Don’t neglect your mother’s instruction.

LEBThe Lexham English Bible

My child, may you keep your father’s instruction,

and do not reject your mother’s teachings,

KJV 1900King James Version

My son, hear the instruction of thy father,

And forsake not the law of thy mother:

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