Proverbs 6:20 {21}
Good News Translation
Son, do what your father tells you and never forget what your mother taught you.

New Revised Standard Version
My child, keep your father’s commandment, and do not forsake your mother’s teaching.

Contemporary English Version
Obey the teaching of your parents--

New American Bible
Observe, my son, your father’s command, and do not reject your mother’s teaching;

Douay-Rheims Bible
Bind them in thy heart continually, and put them about thy neck.

Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

Bind them in thy heart continually, and put them about thy neck.

Proverbs 1:8,9 That grace may be added to thy head, and a chain of gold to thy neck. . . .

Proverbs 7:1-4 Keep my commandments, and thou shalt live: and my law as the apple of thy eye: . . .

Proverbs 23:22 Hearken to thy father, that begot thee: and despise not thy mother when she is old.

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

Deuteronomy 21:18 If a man have a stubborn and unruly son, who will not hear the commandments of his father or mother, and being corrected, slighteth obedience:

Deuteronomy 27:16 Cursed be he that honoureth not his father and mother: and all the people shall say: Amen.

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

Context
Warnings Against Adultery
20Bind them in thy heart continually, and put them about thy neck.21When thou walkest, let them go with thee: when thou sleepest, let them keep thee, and when thou awakest, talk with them.…
Cross References
Ephesians 6:1
Children, obey your parents in the Lord: for this is just.

Proverbs 1:8
That grace may be added to thy head, and a chain of gold to thy neck.

Proverbs 7:1
Keep my commandments, and thou shalt live: and my law as the apple of thy eye:

Jeremiah 35:8
Therefore we have obeyed the voice of Jonadab the son of Rechab, our father, in all things that he commanded us: so as to drink no wine all our days: neither we, nor our wives, nor our sons, nor our daughters:

Proverbs 6:19
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