Proverbs 19:26
Whoever afflicts his father and flees from his mother is disreputable and unhappy.
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27Son, do not cease listening to doctrine, and do not be ignorant of the sermons of knowledge.
Cross References
Proverbs 10:1A wise son gladdens the father. Yet truly, a foolish son is the grief of his mother.
Proverbs 17:2A wise servant shall rule over foolish sons, and he will divide the inheritance among brothers.
Proverbs 23:22Listen to your father, who conceived you. And do not despise your mother, when she is old.
Proverbs 28:14Blessed is the man who is ever fearful. Yet truly, whoever is hardened in mind will fall into evil.
Proverbs 30:11There is a generation which curses their father, and which does not bless their mother.
Luke 15:12And the younger of them said to the father, ‘Father, give me the portion of your estate which would go to me.’ And he divided the estate 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 →