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Proverbs 1:8

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Prologue: Exhortations to Embrace Wisdom

Warning Against the Invitation of Sinful Men

Listen, my son,a to your father’sb instruction

and do not forsake your mother’s teaching.c

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

Cross references

  1. aver 8–9; Pr 2:1; 3:1; 4:1; 5:1; 6:1; 7:1; 19:27; 22:17; 23:26–28
  2. bJer 35:8
  3. c Dt 21:18; Pr 6:20

In other versions

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: