Proverbs 23
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Proverbs 23:22-28

22Listen to your father who begot you, and do not despise your mother when she is old.

23Acquire truth and do not sell it – wisdom, and discipline, and understanding.

24The father of a righteous person will rejoice greatly; whoever fathers a wise child will have joy in him.

25May your father and your mother have joy; may she who bore you rejoice.

26Give me your heart, my son, and let your eyes observe my ways;

27for a prostitute is like a deep pit; a harlot is like a narrow well.

28Indeed, she lies in wait like a robber, and increases the unfaithful among men.

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