Verse (Click for Chapter) New International Version My son, keep your father’s command and do not forsake your mother’s teaching. New Living Translation My son, obey your father’s commands, and don’t neglect your mother’s instruction. English Standard Version My son, keep your father’s commandment, and forsake not your mother’s teaching. Berean Standard Bible My son, keep your father’s commandment, and do not forsake your mother’s teaching. King James Bible My son, keep thy father's commandment, and forsake not the law of thy mother: New King James Version My son, keep your father’s command, And do not forsake the law of your mother. New American Standard Bible My son, comply with the commandment of your father, And do not ignore the teaching of your mother; NASB 1995 My son, observe the commandment of your father And do not forsake the teaching of your mother; NASB 1977 My son, observe the commandment of your father, And do not forsake the teaching of your mother; Legacy Standard Bible My son, observe the commandment of your father And do not abandon the law of your mother; Amplified Bible My son, be guided by your father’s [God-given] commandment (instruction) And do not reject the teaching of your mother; Christian Standard Bible My son, keep your father’s command, and don’t reject your mother’s teaching. Holman Christian Standard Bible My son, keep your father’s command, and don’t reject your mother’s teaching. American Standard Version My son, keep the commandment of thy father, And forsake not the law of thy mother: Aramaic Bible in Plain English Keep, my son, the commandment of your father and do not forget the law of your mother. Brenton Septuagint Translation My son, keep the laws of thy father, and reject not the ordinances of thy mother: Contemporary English Version Obey the teaching of your parents-- Douay-Rheims Bible My son, keep the commandments of thy father, and forsake not the law of thy mother. English Revised Version My son, keep the commandment of thy father, and forsake not the law of thy mother: GOD'S WORD® Translation My son, obey the command of your father, and do not disregard the teachings of your mother. Good News Translation Son, do what your father tells you and never forget what your mother taught you. International Standard Version Keep your father's commands, my son, and never forsake your mother's rules, JPS Tanakh 1917 My son, keep the commandment of thy father, And forsake not the teaching of thy mother; Literal Standard Version Keep, my son, the command of your father, | And do not leave the law of your mother. Majority Standard Bible My son, keep your father’s commandment, and do not forsake your mother’s teaching. New American Bible Observe, my son, your father’s command, and do not reject your mother’s teaching; NET Bible My child, guard the commands of your father and do not forsake the instruction of your mother. New Revised Standard Version My child, keep your father’s commandment, and do not forsake your mother’s teaching. New Heart English Bible My son, keep your father's commandment, and do not forsake your mother's teaching. Webster's Bible Translation My son, keep thy father's commandment, and forsake not the law of thy mother: World English Bible My son, keep your father’s commandment, and don’t forsake your mother’s teaching. Young's Literal Translation Keep, my son, the command of thy father, And leave not the law of thy mother. Additional Translations ... Audio Bible Context Warnings Against Adultery20My son, keep your father’s commandment, and do not forsake your mother’s teaching. 21Bind them always upon your heart; tie them around your neck.… Cross References Ephesians 6:1 Children, obey your parents in the Lord, for this is right. Proverbs 1:8 Listen, my son, to your father's instruction, and do not forsake the teaching of your mother. Proverbs 7:1 My son, keep my words and treasure my commandments within you. Jeremiah 35:8 And we have obeyed the voice of our forefather Jonadab son of Rechab in all he commanded us. So we have not drunk wine all our lives--neither we nor our wives nor our sons and daughters. Treasury of Scripture My son, keep your father's commandment, and forsake not the law of your mother: Proverbs 1:8,9 My son, hear the instruction of thy father, and forsake not the law of thy mother: … Proverbs 7:1-4 My son, keep my words, and lay up my commandments with thee… Proverbs 23:22 Hearken unto thy father that begat thee, and despise not thy mother when she is old. Jump to Previous Command Commandment Commands Father's Forsake Law Memory Mother Mother's Observe Rule TeachingJump to Next Command Commandment Commands Father's Forsake Law Memory Mother Mother's Observe Rule TeachingProverbs 6 1. against indebtedness6. idleness 12. and mischievousness 16. seven things detestable to God 20. the blessings of obedience 25. the mischief of unfaithfulness Verses 20-35. - 12. Twelfth admonitory discourse. In this the teacher returns again to the subject which he has already treated in the eighth discourse. The extreme tendency of men, and especially young men, to sins of impurity is no doubt, as Delitzsch remarks, the reason why this subject is again resumed. The subject is gradually worked up to the preceding admonitions in vers. 20-23, pointing out that the way of life, the way of safety, is to be secured by obedience to the precepts of parents, whose commandment and law illumine the perilous road of life, and whose reproofs are salutary to the soul. The arguments against the sin of adultery are cogent in their dissuasiveness, and none stronger of a purely temporal nature could be devised. It may be objected that the sin is not put forward in the higher light, as an offence before God. and that the appeal is made simply on the lines of self-interest; but who will deny that the scope of the teaching is distinctly moral, or that mankind is not influenced and dissuaded from sin by such a category of evils as includes personal beggary, dishonour, and death? Verse 20. - The first part of this verse is couched in almost the same terms as that of Proverbs 1:8, except that mitz'rath, "precept," preceptum, is here used instead of musar, eruditio, or "disciplinary instruction," while the latter part of the two verses are identical. Parallel Commentaries ... Hebrew My son,בְּ֭נִי (bə·nî) Noun - masculine singular construct | first person common singular Strong's 1121: A son keep נְצֹ֣ר (nə·ṣōr) Verb - Qal - Imperative - masculine singular Strong's 5341: To watch, guard, keep your father’s אָבִ֑יךָ (’ā·ḇî·ḵā) Noun - masculine singular construct | second person masculine singular Strong's 1: Father commandment, מִצְוַ֣ת (miṣ·waṯ) Noun - feminine singular construct Strong's 4687: Commandment and do not וְאַל־ (wə·’al-) Conjunctive waw | Adverb Strong's 408: Not forsake תִּ֝טֹּ֗שׁ (tiṭ·ṭōš) Verb - Qal - Imperfect - second person masculine singular Strong's 5203: To pound, smite, to disperse, to thrust off, down, out, upon your mother’s אִמֶּֽךָ׃ (’im·me·ḵā) Noun - feminine singular construct | second person masculine singular Strong's 517: A mother, ) teaching. תּוֹרַ֥ת (tō·w·raṯ) Noun - feminine singular construct Strong's 8451: Direction, instruction, law Links Proverbs 6:20 NIVProverbs 6:20 NLT Proverbs 6:20 ESV Proverbs 6:20 NASB Proverbs 6:20 KJV Proverbs 6:20 BibleApps.com Proverbs 6:20 Biblia Paralela Proverbs 6:20 Chinese Bible Proverbs 6:20 French Bible Proverbs 6:20 Catholic Bible OT Poetry: Proverbs 6:20 My son keep your father's commandment (Prov. 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