Proverbs 6:20 My son, keep your father's command and do not forsake your mother's teaching.

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New International Version
My son, keep your father's command and do not forsake your mother's teaching.

New American Standard Bible
My son, observe the commandment of your father And do not forsake the teaching of your mother;

King James Bible
My son, keep thy father's commandment, and forsake not the law of thy mother:

Holman Christian Standard Bible
My son, keep your father's command, and don't reject your mother's teaching.

International Standard Version
Keep your father's commands, my son, and never forsake your mother's rules,

American Standard Version
My son, keep the commandment of thy father, And forsake not the law of thy mother:

Douay-Rheims Bible
My son, beep the commandments of thy father, and forsake not the law of thy mother.

Darby Bible Translation
My son, observe thy father's commandment, and forsake not the teaching of thy mother;

Young's Literal Translation
Keep, my son, the command of thy father, And leave not the law of thy mother.

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Context

Warnings Against Adultery

20My son, keep your father's commandment, and forsake not the law of your mother: 21Bind them continually on your heart, and tie them about your neck. 22When you go, it shall lead you; when you sleep, it shall keep you; and when you wake, it shall talk with you. 23For the commandment is a lamp; and the law is light; and reproofs of instruction are the way of life: 24To keep you from the evil woman, from the flattery of the tongue of a strange woman. 25Lust not after her beauty in your heart; neither let her take you with her eyelids. 26For by means of a whorish woman a man is brought to a piece of bread: and the adulteress will hunt for the precious life. 27Can a man take fire in his bosom, and his clothes not be burned? 28Can one go on hot coals, and his feet not be burned? 29So he that goes in to his neighbor's wife; whoever touches her shall not be innocent. 30Men do not despise a thief, if he steal to satisfy his soul when he is hungry; 31But if he be found, he shall restore sevenfold; he shall give all the substance of his house. 32But whoever commits adultery with a woman lacks understanding: he that does it destroys his own soul. 33A wound and dishonor shall he get; and his reproach shall not be wiped away. 34For jealousy is the rage of a man: therefore he will not spare in the day of vengeance. 35He will not regard any ransom; neither will he rest content, though you give many gifts.

Cross References

Ephesians 6:1
Children, obey your parents in the Lord: for this is right.

Proverbs 1:8
My son, hear the instruction of your father, and forsake not the law of your mother:

Proverbs 7:1
My son, keep my words, and lay up my commandments with you.

Jeremiah 35:8
Thus have we obeyed the voice of Jonadab the son of Rechab our father in all that he has charged us, to drink no wine all our days, we, our wives, our sons, nor our 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 your father, and forsake not the law of your mother...

Proverbs 7:1-4 My son, keep my words, and lay up my commandments with you...

Proverbs 23:22 Listen to your father that begat you, and despise not your mother when she is old.

Proverbs 30:11 There is a generation that curses their father, and does not bless their mother.

Deuteronomy 21:18 If 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...

Deuteronomy 27:16 Cursed be he that sets light by his father or his mother. And all the people shall say, Amen.

Ephesians 6:1 Children, obey your parents in the Lord: for this is right.

Strong's Concordance

My son, keep thy father's commandment, and forsake not the law of thy mother:

Topical Bible

Command Commandment Commands Father's Forsake Law Leave Memory Mother's Observe Rule Teaching

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