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Proverbs 1:8 KJV
Proverbs · chapter 1 · verse 8
My son, hear the instruction of thy father, and forsake not the law of thy mother:Proverbs 1:8 · King James Version
Proverbs 1:8 in context
6To understand a proverb, and the interpretation; the words of the wise, and their dark sayings.
7The fear of the LORD is the beginning of knowledge: but fools despise wisdom and instruction.
8My son, hear the instruction of thy father, and forsake not the law of thy mother:
9For they shall be an ornament of grace unto thy head, and chains about thy neck.
10My son, if sinners entice thee, consent thou not.
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Key words (Strong's)
- instructionmûwçârproperly, chastisementH4148 →
- forsakenâṭashproperly, to poundH5203 →
- fatherʼâbfather, in a literal and immediate, or figurative and remote applicationH1 →
- hearshâmaʻto hear intelligently (often with implication of attention, obedience, etcH8085 →
- sonbêna son , in the widest sense , etc.)H1121 →
- lawtôwrâha precept or statute, especially the Decalogue or PentateuchH8451 →
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Solomon, having undertaken to teach a young man knowledge and discretion, here lays down two general rules to be observed in order thereunto, and those are, to fear God and honour his parents, which two fundamental laws of morality Pythagoras begins his golden verses with, but the former of them in a wretchedly…
— Matthew Henry's Concise Commentary on verses 7-9