Proverbs 19:26
He who is violent to his father, driving away his mother, is a son causing shame and a bad name.
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27A son who no longer gives attention to teaching is turned away from the words of knowledge.
Cross References
Proverbs 10:1A wise son makes a glad father, but a foolish son is a sorrow to his mother.
Proverbs 17:2A servant who does wisely will have rule over a son causing shame, and will have his part in the heritage among brothers.
Proverbs 23:22Give ear to your father whose child you are, and do not keep honour from your mother when she is old.
Proverbs 28:14Happy is the man in whom is the fear of the Lord at all times; but he whose heart is hard will come into trouble.
Proverbs 30:11There is a generation who put a curse on their father, and do not give a blessing to their mother.
Luke 15:12And the younger of them said to his father, Father, give me that part of your property which will be mine. And he made division of his goods between them.
Matthew Henry on Proverbs 19:26
25 Smite a scorner, and the simple will beware: and reprove one that hath understanding, and he will understand knowledge. Note, 1. The punishment of scorners will be a means of good to others. When men are so hardened in wickedness that they will not themselves be wrought upon by the severe methods that are used to reclaim and reform them, yet such methods must be used for the sake of others, that they may hear and fear, Deut. xix. 20 . If the scorner will not be recovered from his sin, the disease being… Read the whole commentary →