New English Translation
Proverbs 1:8
8Listen, my child, to the instruction from your father, and do not forsake the teaching from your mother.
Proverbs 1:8 in other versions
- King James Version (KJV)My son, hear the instruction of thy father, and forsake not the law of thy mother:
- New International Version (NIV)Listen, my son, to your father’s instruction and do not forsake your mother’s teaching.
- English Standard Version (ESV)Hear, my son, your father's instruction, and forsake not your mother's teaching,
- New King James Version (NKJV)My son, hear the instruction of your father, And do not forsake the law of your mother;
Context of Proverbs 1:8
6To discern the meaning of a proverb and a parable, the sayings of the wise and their riddles. 7Fearing the Lord is the beginning of moral knowledge, but fools despise wisdom and instruction. Listen, my child, to the instruction from your father, and do not forsake the teaching from your mother. 9For they will be like an elegant garland on your head, and like pendants around your neck. 10My child, if sinners try to entice you, do not consent!
Read all of Proverbs 1Proverbs 1:8 word by word
שְׁמַ֣ע בְּ֭נִי מוּסַ֣ר אָבִ֑יךָ וְאַל־תִּ֝טֹּ֗שׁ תּוֹרַ֥ת אִמֶּֽךָ׃Read the interlinear
Words taken from the KJV.
Cross-references for Proverbs 1:8
- Proverbs 1:10My child, if sinners try to entice you, do not consent!
- Proverbs 2:1My child, if you receive my words, and store up my commands within you,
- Proverbs 3:1My child, do not forget my teaching, but let your heart keep my commandments,
- Proverbs 7:1My child, keep my words and treasure up my commands in your own keeping.
- Matthew 9:2Just then some people brought to him a paralytic lying on a stretcher. When Jesus saw their faith, he said to the paralytic, “Have courage, son! Your sins are forgiven.”
- Proverbs 4:1Listen, children, to a father’s instruction, and pay attention so that you may gain discernment.
- Proverbs 5:1My child, be attentive to my wisdom, pay close attention to my understanding,
- Proverbs 6:20My child, guard the commands of your father and do not forsake the instruction of your mother.
- Proverbs 30:17The eye that mocks at a father and despises obeying a mother – the ravens of the valley will peck it out and the young vultures will eat it.
- Proverbs 31:1The words of King Lemuel, an oracle that his mother taught him:
- Leviticus 19:3Each of you must respect his mother and his father, and you must keep my Sabbaths. I am the Lord your God.
- Deuteronomy 21:18If a person has a stubborn, rebellious son who pays no attention to his father or mother, and they discipline him to no avail,
- 1 Samuel 2:25If a man sins against a man, one may appeal to God on his behalf. But if a man sins against the Lord, who then will intercede for him?” But Eli’s sons would not listen to their father, for the Lord had decided to kill them.
- 2 Timothy 1:5I recall your sincere faith that was alive first in your grandmother Lois and in your mother Eunice, and I am sure is in you.
Commentaries on Proverbs 1:8
- Adam Clarke Bible Commentary · v. 8My son, hear - Father was the title of preceptor, and son, that of disciple or scholar, among the Jews. But here the reference appears to be to the children of a family; the father and the mother have the principal charge, in the first instance, of their children's instruction. It is supposed that these parents have, themselves, the fear of the Lord, and that they are capable of giving the best counsel to their children, and that they set before them a…Read the comment
- Matthew Henry Concise Commentary · v. 7-9Verses 7-9 Fools are persons who have no true wisdom, who follow their own devices, without regard to reason, or reverence for God. Children are reasonable creatures, and when we tell them what they must do, we must tell them why. But they are corrupt and wilful, therefore with the instruction there is need of a law. Let Divine truths and commands be to us most honourable; let us value them, and then they shall be so to us.Read the comment
- Tyndale Open Study Notes · v. 8my son: Like other wisdom literature from the ancient Near East, much of Proverbs 1–9 contains a father's (and sometimes a mother's) advice to a son. Since the son is learning his father's job, much of the teaching is about the son's future work. Some translations (like The New Living Translation) often use the term child because the lessons apply to both sons and daughters.Read the comment
- Jamieson–Fausset–Brown Commentary · v. 88. My son--This paternal form denotes a tender regard for the reader. Filial sentiments rank next to piety towards God, and ensure most distinguished rewards (compare Pr 6:20; Ep 6:2, 3).Read the comment
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Commentaries on Proverbs 1
- Adam Clarke Bible Commentary
- Barnes’ Notes on the Bible
- Matthew Henry Concise Commentary
- Tyndale Open Study Notes
- Jamieson–Fausset–Brown Commentary
- Rashi on Tanakh
- Keil & Delitzsch Commentary
- John Wesley’s Notes
- Darby Translation Notes
- Geneva Bible Translation Notes
- Kingcomments
- Matthew Henry’s Complete Commentary
- Matthew Henry’s Modern English Commentary
- Scofield Reference Notes, 1917 Edition
- Original Douay–Rheims Annotations
- Seventh-day Adventist Bible Commentary
- EGW Writings
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