Proverbs 1:8
My son, pay attention to what I, your father, am teaching you. And do not reject what your mother teaches you.
Translation for Translators
In The King James Version
My son, hear the instruction of thy father, and forsake not the law of thy mother:
In Context
Cross References
Deuteronomy 21:18“Suppose there is a boy who is very stubborn and always ◄rebelling against/disobeying► his parents, and who will not heed what they say to him. And suppose that they punish him but he still does not pay attention to what they tell him [MTY].
1 Samuel 2:25If one person sins against another person, God can ◄intercede/act as a referee► between them. But if someone sins against Yahweh, no one can [RHQ] ◄intercede/act as a referee► between them!” But Eli’s sons would not listen to what their father said. This was because Yahweh had decided that someone should kill them.
Proverbs 1:15My son, do not accompany them! Do not walk on the roads with them!
Proverbs 3:1My son, do not forget what I have taught you. Keep my commands in your inner being,
Proverbs 5:1My son, listen carefully to some more wise things that I will tell you. Listen well to what I am going to teach you.
Proverbs 7:1My son, heed my advice, and guard my instructions as you would [MET] guard a treasure.
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 →