Tree of Life Version
Proverbs 1:8
8Hear, my son, your father’s instruction and forsake not your mother’s teaching.
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 understand a proverb and a puzzle, the sayings of the wise and their riddles. 7The fear of Adonai is the beginning of knowledge, but fools despise wisdom and discipline. Hear, my son, your father’s instruction and forsake not your mother’s teaching. 9For they are a garland of grace for your head and a chain to adorn your neck. 10My son, if sinners entice you, do not give in.
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 son, if sinners entice you, do not give in.
- Proverbs 2:1My son, if you accept my words and treasure my mitzvot within you,
- Proverbs 3:1My son, do not forget my teaching, but let your heart keep my mitzvot.
- Proverbs 7:1My son, keep my words and treasure my mitzvot within you.
- Matthew 9:2Just then, some people brought to Him a paralyzed man lying on a cot. And seeing their faith, Yeshua said to the paralyzed man, “Take courage, son! Your sins are forgiven.”
- Proverbs 4:1Listen, my sons, to a father’s instruction. Pay attention, to gain understanding.
- Proverbs 5:1My son, pay attention to my wisdom. Incline your ear to my insight,
- Proverbs 6:20My son, keep your father’s mitzvah, and forsake not your mother’s teaching.
- Proverbs 30:17The eye that mocks a father and scorns obeying a mother— will be pecked out by ravens of the valley and eaten by young vultures!
- Proverbs 31:1The words of King Lemuel, an oracle that his mother taught him:
- Leviticus 19:3“Each one of you is to respect his mother and his father, and keep My Shabbatot. I am Adonai your God.
- Deuteronomy 21:18“Suppose a man has a stubborn and rebellious son who does not listen to the voice of his father or mother. They discipline him, but he does not listen to them.
- 1 Samuel 2:25If a man sins against another, God may pardon him; but if a man sins against Adonai, who will intercede for him?” But they did not listen to the voice of their father, because Adonai desired to put them to death.
- 2 Timothy 1:5I recall the genuine faithfulness within you, which first lived in your grandmother Lois and your mother Eunice, and I am sure it is within you as well.
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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