Proverbs 23:22

Learning From Your Father

²¹ For the heavy drinker and the glutton will come to poverty,
And drowsiness will clothe one with rags.
²² Listen to your father who begot you,
And do not despise your mother when she is old.
²³ Buy truth, and do not sell it,
Get wisdom and instruction and understanding.

Give Ear

Proverbs 1:8

Hear, my son, your father’s instruction
And do not forsake your mother’s teaching;

Proverbs 30:17

The eye that mocks a father
And scorns a mother,
The ravens of the valley will pick it out,
And the young eagles will eat it.

Ephesians 6:1-2

Children, obey your parents in the Lord, for this is right.

Leviticus 19:3

Every one of you shall reverence his mother and his father, and you shall keep My sabbaths; I am the Lord your God.

Deuteronomy 21:18-21

“If any man has a stubborn and rebellious son who will not obey his father or his mother, and when they chastise him, he will not even listen to them,

Deuteronomy 27:16

‘Cursed is he who dishonors his father or mother.’ And all the people shall say, ‘Amen.’

Proverbs 6:20

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

Proverbs 30:11

There is a kind of man who curses his father
And does not bless his mother.

Matthew 15:4-6

For God said, ‘Honor your father and mother,’ and, ‘He who speaks evil of father or mother is to be put to death.’

Mark 7:10

For Moses said, ‘Honor your father and your mother’; and, ‘He who speaks evil of father or mother, is to be put to death’;

John 19:26-27

When Jesus then saw His mother, and the disciple whom He loved standing nearby, He *said to His mother, “Woman, behold, your son!”