Verse (Click for Chapter) New International Version Listen, my son, to your father’s instruction and do not forsake your mother’s teaching. New Living Translation My child, listen when your father corrects you. Don’t neglect your mother’s instruction. English Standard Version Hear, my son, your father’s instruction, and forsake not your mother’s teaching, Berean Standard Bible Listen, my son, to your father’s instruction, and do not forsake the teaching of your mother. King James Bible My son, hear the instruction of thy father, and forsake not the law of thy mother: New King James Version My son, hear the instruction of your father, And do not forsake the law of your mother; New American Standard Bible Listen, my son, to your father’s instruction, And do not ignore your mother’s teaching; NASB 1995 Hear, my son, your father’s instruction And do not forsake your mother’s teaching; NASB 1977 Hear, my son, your father’s instruction, And do not forsake your mother’s teaching; Legacy Standard Bible Hear, my son, your father’s discipline And do not abandon your mother’s instruction; Amplified Bible My son, hear the instruction of your father, And do not reject the teaching of your mother. Christian Standard Bible Listen, my son, to your father’s instruction, and don’t reject your mother’s teaching, Holman Christian Standard Bible Listen, my son, to your father’s instruction, and don’t reject your mother’s teaching, American Standard Version My son, hear the instruction of thy father, And forsake not the law of thy mother: Contemporary English Version My child, obey the teachings of your parents, English Revised Version My son, hear the instruction of thy father, and forsake not the law of thy mother: GOD'S WORD® Translation My son, listen to your father's discipline, and do not neglect your mother's teachings, Good News Translation My child, pay attention to what your father and mother tell you. International Standard Version My son, listen to your father's instruction, and do not let go of your mother's teaching. Majority Standard Bible Listen, my son, to your father?s instruction, and do not forsake the teaching of your mother. NET Bible Listen, my child, to the instruction from your father, and do not forsake the teaching from your mother. New Heart English Bible My son, listen to your father's instruction, and do not forsake your mother's teaching: Webster's Bible Translation My son, hear the instruction of thy father, and forsake not the law of thy mother: World English Bible My son, listen to your father’s instruction, and don’t forsake your mother’s teaching; Literal Translations Literal Standard VersionHear, my son, the instruction of your father, "" And do not leave the law of your mother, Young's Literal Translation Hear, my son, the instruction of thy father, And leave not the law of thy mother, Smith's Literal Translation My son, hear the instruction of thy father, and thou shalt not reject the law of thy mother: Catholic Translations Douay-Rheims BibleMy son, hear the instruction of thy father, and forsake not the law of thy mother : Catholic Public Domain Version Listen, my son, to the discipline of your father, and forsake not the law of your mother, New American Bible Hear, my son, your father’s instruction, and reject not your mother’s teaching; New Revised Standard Version Hear, my child, your father’s instruction, and do not reject your mother’s teaching; Translations from Aramaic Lamsa BibleHear, my son, the ordinance of your father, and forsake not the law of your mother; Peshitta Holy Bible Translated Hear, my son, the law of your father and do not forget the law of your mother. OT Translations JPS Tanakh 1917Hear, my son, the instruction of thy father, And forsake not the teaching of thy mother; Brenton Septuagint Translation Hear, my son, the instruction of thy father, and reject not the rules of thy mother. Additional Translations ... Audio Bible Context The Enticement of Sin8Listen, my son, to your father’s instruction, and do not forsake the teaching of your mother. 9For they are a garland of grace on your head and a pendant around your neck.… Cross References Ephesians 6:1-3 Children, obey your parents in the Lord, for this is right. / “Honor your father and mother” (which is the first commandment with a promise), / “that it may go well with you and that you may have a long life on the earth.” Deuteronomy 6:6-7 These words I am commanding you today are to be upon your hearts. / And you shall teach them diligently to your children and speak of them when you sit at home and when you walk along the road, when you lie down and when you get up. Colossians 3:20 Children, obey your parents in everything, for this is pleasing to the Lord. Exodus 20:12 Honor your father and mother, so that your days may be long in the land that the LORD your God is giving you. Proverbs 6:20-23 My son, keep your father’s commandment, and do not forsake your mother’s teaching. / Bind them always upon your heart; tie them around your neck. / When you walk, they will guide you; when you lie down, they will watch over you; when you awake, they will speak to you. ... Proverbs 23:22-25 Listen to your father who gave you life, and do not despise your mother when she is old. / Invest in truth and never sell it—in wisdom and instruction and understanding. / The father of a righteous man will greatly rejoice, and he who fathers a wise son will delight in him. ... Leviticus 19:3 Each of you must respect his mother and father, and you must keep My Sabbaths. I am the LORD your God. Matthew 15:4-6 For God said, ‘Honor your father and mother’ and ‘Anyone who curses his father or mother must be put to death.’ / But you say that if anyone says to his father or mother, ‘Whatever you would have received from me is a gift devoted to God,’ / he need not honor his father or mother with it. Thus you nullify the word of God for the sake of your tradition. Deuteronomy 21:18-21 If a man has a stubborn and rebellious son who does not obey his father and mother and does not listen to them when disciplined, / his father and mother are to lay hold of him and bring him to the elders of his city, to the gate of his hometown, / and say to the elders, “This son of ours is stubborn and rebellious; he does not obey us. He is a glutton and a drunkard.” ... 2 Timothy 3:14-15 But as for you, continue in the things you have learned and firmly believed, since you know from whom you have learned them. / From infancy you have known the Holy Scriptures, which are able to make you wise for salvation through faith in Christ Jesus. Proverbs 4:1-4 Listen, my sons, to a father’s instruction; pay attention and gain understanding. / For I give you sound teaching; do not abandon my directive. / When I was a son to my father, tender and the only child of my mother, ... Proverbs 13:1 A wise son heeds his father’s discipline, but a mocker does not listen to rebuke. Proverbs 15:5 A fool rejects his father’s discipline, but whoever heeds correction is prudent. Hebrews 12:9 Furthermore, we have all had earthly fathers who disciplined us, and we respected them. Should we not much more submit to the Father of our spirits and live? Proverbs 30:17 As for the eye that mocks a father and scorns obedience to a mother, may the ravens of the valley pluck it out and young vultures devour it. Treasury of Scripture My son, hear the instruction of your father, and forsake not the law of your mother: my son Proverbs 1:10,15 My son, if sinners entice thee, consent thou not… Proverbs 2:1 My son, if thou wilt receive my words, and hide my commandments with thee; Proverbs 3:1 My son, forget not my law; but let thine heart keep my commandments: hear Proverbs 4:1-4 Hear, ye children, the instruction of a father, and attend to know understanding… Proverbs 5:1,2 My son, attend unto my wisdom, and bow thine ear to my understanding: … Proverbs 6:20 My son, keep thy father's commandment, and forsake not the law of thy mother: Jump to Previous Ear Father's Forsake Hear Instruction Law Mother Mother's Reject Teaching TrainingJump to Next Ear Father's Forsake Hear Instruction Law Mother Mother's Reject Teaching TrainingProverbs 1 1. The use of the proverbs7. An exhortation to fear God, and believe his word 10. to avoid the enticing of sinners 20. Wisdom complains of her contempt 24. She threatens her contemners Listen, my son The Hebrew word for "listen" is "שְׁמַע" (shema), which implies not just hearing but also obeying and internalizing what is heard. This word is foundational in Jewish tradition, as seen in the Shema prayer, which calls for attentive obedience to God's commandments. The phrase "my son" indicates a personal and intimate relationship, suggesting that the wisdom imparted is not just for the general public but is a personal legacy from parent to child. This reflects the biblical emphasis on the family as the primary unit for spiritual and moral education. to your father’s instruction and do not forsake your mother’s teaching Law.--Rather, teaching. (Comp. Proverbs 3:1.) Verses 8-19. - 1. First admonitory discourse. Warning against enticements to robbery and bloodshed. Verse 8. - My son, hear the instruction of thy father. The transition in this verse from what may be regarded as filial obedience towards God to filial obedience towards parents is suggestive of the moral Law. The same admonition, in a slightly altered form, occurs again in ch. 6, "My son, keep thy father's commandment, and forsake not the law of thy mother" (cf. also Proverbs 4:1). My son; בְּנִבי (b'ni) from בֵּן (ben), "a son." The form of address here adopted was that in common use by teachers towards their pupils, and marks that superintending, loving, and fatherly care and interest which the former felt in and towards the latter. It occurs frequently in the introductory section (Proverbs 2:1; Proverbs 3:1, 21; Proverbs 4:10, 20; Proverbs 5:1; Proverbs 6:1; Proverbs 7:1), and reappears again towards the close (Proverbs 23:15, 19, 26; Proverbs 24:13, 21; Proverbs 27:11) in the teacher's address. The mother of Lemuel uses it (Proverbs 31:2) in the strictly parental sense. In other passages of the Old Testament the teacher, on the other hand, is represented as a "father" (Judges 17:10 Isaiah 10:12; 2 Kings 2:21). We find the same relation assumed in the New Testament, both by St. Paul (1 Corinthians 4:15; Philemon 1:10; Galatians 4:19) and by St. John (1 John 2:1; 1 John 5:2); but under the economy of the gospel it has a deeper significance than here, as pointing to the "new birth," which, being a later revelation, lies outside the scope of the moral teaching of the Old Testament dispensation. The instruction (מֶוּסַר musar); as carrying with it the sense of disciplinary education (cf. LXX., παιδεία; Vulgate, disciplina; see also ver. 2), and of the correction with which it may be enforced (cf. Proverbs 13:24; Proverbs 22:15; Proverbs 23:13, 14), the writer attributes appropriately to the father, while the milder torah, "law," he uses of the mother (Delitzsch). Father. The nature of the exhortation conveyed in this verse requires that we should understand the terms "father" and "mother" in their natural sense as designating the parents of the persons addressed, though a symbolical meaning has Been attached to them by the rabbis (see Rabbi Salomon, in loc.), "father" being understood as representing God, and "mother," the people. But the terms are more than merely figurative expressions (Stuart). Those who look upon the Proverbs as the address of Solomon to his son Rehoboam naturally take "father" as standing for the former. Naamah, in this case must be the mother (1 Kings 14:31). It is almost unnecessary to state that pious parents are presupposed, and that only that instruction and law can be meant which is not inconsistent with the higher and more perfect Law of God (Gejerus, Wardlaw). And forsake not the law of thy mother. Forsake. The radical meaning of הִּטּשׁ (tittosh) is that of "spreading," then of "scattering" (Aiken), and so the word comes to mean "forsake, reject, or neglect." The LXX. reads ἀπώσῃ, from ἀποθέω, abjicere, "to push away, reject." Cf. abjicias (Arabic). The Vulgate has dimittas, i.e. "abandon," and the Syriac, obliviscaris, i.e. "forget." The law; תּורַת (torath), construct case of תּורַה (torah), from the root יָרָה (yarah), "to teach," hence here equivalent to "a law" in the sense of that which teaches - a precept (doctrina, Jun. et Tremell., Piscat., Castal., Versions). With one exception (Proverbs 8:10), it is the term which always expresses the instruction given by Wisdom (Delitzsch). The law (torah) of the mother is that preceptive teaching which she imparts orally to her son, but torah is also used in a technical sense as lex, νόμος δέσμος, that which is laid down and established, a decretum or institutum, and designates some distinct provision or ordinance, as the law of sacrifice (Leviticus 6:7). In Joshua 1:8 we find it employed to signify the whole body of the Mosaic Law (sepher hatorah). Mother. Not inserted here as a natural expansion of the idea of the figure required by the laws of poetic parallelism (as Zockler), since this weakens the force of the passage. Mothers are mentioned because of their sedulousness in imparting instruction (Bayne).Parallel Commentaries ... Hebrew Listen,שְׁמַ֣ע (šə·ma‘) Verb - Qal - Imperative - masculine singular Strong's 8085: To hear intelligently my son, בְּ֭נִי (bə·nî) Noun - masculine singular construct | first person common singular Strong's 1121: A son to your father’s אָבִ֑יךָ (’ā·ḇî·ḵā) Noun - masculine singular construct | second person masculine singular Strong's 1: Father instruction, מוּסַ֣ר (mū·sar) Noun - masculine singular construct Strong's 4148: Chastisement, reproof, warning, instruction, restraint and do 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 the teaching תּוֹרַ֥ת (tō·w·raṯ) Noun - feminine singular construct Strong's 8451: Direction, instruction, law of your mother. אִמֶּֽךָ׃ (’im·me·ḵā) Noun - feminine singular construct | second person masculine singular Strong's 517: A mother, ) Links Proverbs 1:8 NIVProverbs 1:8 NLT Proverbs 1:8 ESV Proverbs 1:8 NASB Proverbs 1:8 KJV Proverbs 1:8 BibleApps.com Proverbs 1:8 Biblia Paralela Proverbs 1:8 Chinese Bible Proverbs 1:8 French Bible Proverbs 1:8 Catholic Bible OT Poetry: Proverbs 1:8 My son listen to your father's instruction (Prov. 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