the Week of Proper 6 / Ordinary 11
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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 thy father's commandment, and forsake not the law of thy mother:
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 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
God blessed them and said to them, "Be fruitful and multiply! Fill the earth and subdue it! Rule over the fish of the sea and the birds of the air and every creature that moves on the ground."
The Lord God formed out of the ground every living animal of the field and every bird of the air. He brought them to the man to see what he would name them, and whatever the man called each living creature, that was its name.
But Noah found favor in the sight of the Lord .
The earth was ruined in the sight of God; the earth was filled with violence.
God saw the earth, and indeed it was ruined, for all living creatures on the earth were sinful.
Make a roof for the ark and finish it, leaving 18 inches from the top. Put a door in the side of the ark, and make lower, middle, and upper decks.
Of the birds after their kinds, and of the cattle after their kinds, and of every creeping thing of the ground after its kind, two of every kind will come to you so you can keep them alive.
but you are not willing to come to me so that you may 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.
