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King James Version
Proverbs 6:20
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My son, keep your father’s command,and don’t reject your mother’s teaching.
My son, keep your father's mitzvah, And don't forsake your mother's teaching.
My son, keep your father's commandment, and forsake not your mother's teaching.
My son, keep your father's commands, and don't forget your mother's teaching.
My child, guard the commands of your father and do not forsake the instruction of your mother.
My son, be guided by your father's [God-given] commandment (instruction) And do not reject the teaching of your mother;
My son, comply with the commandment of your father, And do not ignore the teaching of your mother;
My son, keep your father's commandment, And don't forsake your mother's teaching.
My sonne, keepe thy fathers commandement, and forsake not thy mothers instruction.
My son, observe the commandment of your fatherAnd do not abandon the law of your mother;
My son, keep your father's commandment, and do not forsake your mother's teaching.
Obey the teaching of your parents—
My son, obey your father's command, and don't abandon your mother's teaching.
My son, observe thy father's commandment, and forsake not the teaching of thy mother;
My son, remember your father's command, and don't forget your mother's teaching.
My son, keep your fathers commandment and do not forsake the law of your mother;
My child, keep the commandment of your father, and do not disregard the instruction of your mother.
My son, keep your father's commands, and do not forsake the law of your mother.
My sonne, kepe thy fathers comaundemetes, & forsake not ye lawe of thy mother.
My son, keep the commandment of thy father, And forsake not the law of thy mother:
My son, keep the rule of your father, and have in memory the teaching of your mother:
My son, keep the commandment of thy father, and forsake not the teaching of thy mother;
My sonne, keepe thy fathers commandement, and forsake not the law of thy mother.
My sonne, kepe thy fathers commaundement, and forsake not the lawe of thy mother:
My son, keep the laws of thy father, and reject not the ordinances of thy mother:
My son, keep the commandment of thy father, and forsake not the law of thy mother:
Mi sone, kepe the comaundementis of thi fadir; and forsake not the lawe of thi modir.
My son, keep the commandment of your father, And don't forsake the law of your mother:
My son, keep thy father's commandment, and forsake not the law of thy mother:
My son, keep your father's command, And do not forsake the law of your mother.
My son, obey your father's commands, and don't neglect your mother's instruction.
My son, keep the teaching of your father, and do not turn away from the teaching of your mother.
My child, keep your father's commandment, and do not forsake your mother's teaching.
Observe thou, my son, the commandment of thy father, and do not decline from the instruction of thy mother:
My son, keep the commandments of thy father, and forsake not the law of thy mother.
My son, keep your father's commandment, and forsake not your mother's teaching.
Keep, my son, the command of thy father, And leave not the law of thy mother.
Good friend, follow your father's good advice; don't wander off from your mother's teachings. Wrap yourself in them from head to foot; wear them like a scarf around your neck. Wherever you walk, they'll guide you; whenever you rest, they'll guard you; when you wake up, they'll tell you what's next. For sound advice is a beacon, good teaching is a light, moral discipline is a life path.
My son, observe the commandment of your father And do not forsake the teaching of your mother;
Contextual Overview
Bible Verse Review
from Treasury of Scripure Knowledge
Proverbs 1:8, Proverbs 1:9, Proverbs 7:1-4, Proverbs 23:22, Proverbs 30:11, Deuteronomy 21:18, Deuteronomy 27:16, Ephesians 6:1
Reciprocal: Genesis 18:19 - command Genesis 39:8 - refused Genesis 49:2 - hearken Exodus 13:9 - a sign Leviticus 19:3 - fear Deuteronomy 11:18 - ye lay up Psalms 119:9 - shall Psalms 119:24 - my counsellors Proverbs 4:1 - ye Proverbs 4:20 - General Proverbs 31:1 - his Jeremiah 35:8 - General 1 Corinthians 15:2 - keep in memory Colossians 3:20 - obey
Cross-References
And God blessed them, and God said unto them, Be fruitful, and multiply, and replenish the earth, and subdue it: and have dominion over the fish of the sea, and over the fowl of the air, and over every living thing that moveth upon the earth.
And out of the ground the Lord God formed every beast of the field, and every fowl of the air; and brought them unto Adam to see what he would call them: and whatsoever Adam called every living creature, that was the name thereof.
But Noah found grace in the eyes of the Lord .
The earth also was corrupt before God, and the earth was filled with violence.
And God looked upon the earth, and, behold, it was corrupt; for all flesh had corrupted his way upon the earth.
A window shalt thou make to the ark, and in a cubit shalt thou finish it above; and the door of the ark shalt thou set in the side thereof; with lower, second, and third stories shalt thou make it.
Of fowls after their kind, and of cattle after their kind, of every creeping thing of the earth after his kind, two of every sort shall come unto thee, to keep them alive.
And ye will not come to me, that ye might have life.
Gill's Notes on the Bible
My son, keep thy father's commandment,.... These are not the words of David to Solomon continued from Proverbs 4:4; but the words of Solomon to his son; and not to his son only, in a strict natural relation, but to everyone that came to him for and put himself under his instruction; and to everyone that stood in such a relation to a religious father; for not the divine Being, the Father of all, is here meant, according to some Jewish writers; though the commandment no doubt is the commandment of God taught by godly parents; or such a system of precepts that is founded upon and agrees unto the revealed will of God, and which being so should be laid up and kept in the heart, and not forgotten; and should be observed and attended to and obeyed throughout the whole course of life, as if it was the commandment of God himself; and indeed it is no other than that which pious parents train up their children in the knowledge of, instil into them, and urge upon them the observance of;
and forsake not the law of thy mother; the same as before, and which is mentioned to show that the same respect is to be had to a mother as to a father, the commandment and law of them being the same, and they standing in the same relation; which yet children are apt to make a difference in, and while they stand in awe of their father and his precepts, slight their mother and her directions, which ought not to be. Some understand this of the congregation of Israel, as some Jewish writers; and others of the church of God, the mother of us all.
Clarke's Notes on the Bible
Verse Proverbs 6:20. Keep thy father's commandment — See on Proverbs 1:8.
