Proverbs 1:8
Listen, my son, to the discipline of your father, and forsake not the law of your mother,
Catholic Public Domain Version
In The King James Version
My son, hear the instruction of thy father, and forsake not the law of thy mother:
In Context
7The fear of the Lord is the beginning of wisdom. The foolish despise wisdom as well as doctrine.
9so that grace may be added to your head and a collar to your neck.
Cross References
Deuteronomy 21:18If a man produces a disobedient and reckless son, who will not listen to the orders of his father or mother, and, having been corrected, shows contempt for obedience:
1 Samuel 2:25If a man has sinned against a man, God may be able to be appeased over him. But if a man has sinned against the Lord, who will pray for him?” But they did not listen to the voice of their father, that the Lord was willing to kill them.
Proverbs 1:15My son, do not walk with them. Preclude your feet from their paths.
Proverbs 3:1My son, do not forget my law, but let your heart guard my precepts.
Proverbs 5:1My son, pay attention to my wisdom, and incline your ear to my prudence,
Proverbs 7:1My son, guard my words and conceal my precepts within you.
Matthew Henry on Proverbs 1:8-10
Parental Admonitions. 7 The fear of the Lord is the beginning of knowledge: but fools despise wisdom and instruction. 8 My son, hear the instruction of thy father, and forsake not the law of thy mother: 9 For they shall be an ornament of grace unto thy head, and chains about thy neck. Solomon, having undertaken to teach a young man knowledge and discretion, here lays down two general rules to be observed in order thereunto, and those are, to fear God and honour his parents, which two fundamental laws of morality… Read the whole commentary →