Proverbs 6:20
My son, keep your father's commandment, and forsake not the law of your mother:
Updated King James Version
In The King James Version
My son, keep thy father’s commandment, and forsake not the law of thy mother:
In Context
19A false witness that speaks lies, and he that sows discord among brethren.
21Bind them continually upon yours heart, and tie them about your neck.
Cross References
Deuteronomy 21:18If a man have a stubborn and rebellious son, which will not obey the voice of his father, or the voice of his mother, and that, when they have chastened him, will not hearken unto them:
Proverbs 1:8My son, hear the instruction of your father, and forsake not the law of your mother:
Proverbs 5:5Her feet go down to death; her steps take hold on hell.
Proverbs 7:7And beheld among the simple ones, I discerned among the youths, a young man void of understanding,
Proverbs 30:11There is a generation that curses their father, and does not bless their mother.
Matthew Henry on Proverbs 6:13-20
The Seven Abominations. 12 A naughty person, a wicked man, walketh with a froward mouth. 13 He winketh with his eyes, he speaketh with his feet, he teacheth with his fingers; 14 Frowardness is in his heart, he deviseth mischief continually; he soweth discord. 15 Therefore shall his calamity come suddenly; suddenly shall he be broken without remedy. 16 These six things doth the Lord hate: yea, seven are an abomination unto him: 17 A proud look, a lying tongue, and hands that shed innocent blood, 18 An heart that… Read the whole commentary →