⁸ My son, listen to your father's instruction, And don't forsake your mother's teaching:

⁹ For they will be a garland to grace your head, And chains around your neck.

¹⁰ My son, if sinners entice you, don't consent.

⁴ You fathers, don't provoke your children to wrath, but nurture them in the discipline and instruction of the Lord.

²⁶ He who robs his father and drives away his mother, Is a son who causes shame and brings reproach.

²⁴ The father of the righteous has great joy. Whoever fathers a wise child delights in him.

⁶ Train up a child in the way he should go, And when he is old he will not depart from it.

²² Listen to your father who gave you life, And don't despise your mother when she is old.

⁶ Children's children are the crown of old men; The glory of children are their parents.

¹ Children, obey your parents in the Lord, for this is right.

² "Honor your father and mother," which is the first commandment with a promise:

³ "that it may be well with you, and you may live long on the earth."

⁴ You fathers, don't provoke your children to wrath, but nurture them in the discipline and instruction of the Lord.

²⁰ Whoever curses his father or his mother, His lamp shall be put out in blackness of darkness.

¹⁵ The rod of correction gives wisdom, But a child left to himself causes shame to his mother.

¹¹ "Which of you fathers, if your son asks for bread, will give him a stone? Or if he asks for a fish, he won't give him a snake instead of a fish, will he?

¹² Or if he asks for an egg, he won't give him a scorpion, will he?

¹³ If you then, being evil, know how to give good gifts to your children, how much more will your heavenly Father give the Holy Spirit to those who ask him?"

¹⁴ He was casting out a demon, and it was mute. It happened, when the demon had gone out, the mute man spoke; and the multitudes marveled.

⁸ But if anyone doesn't provide for his own, and especially his own household, he has denied the faith, and is worse than an unbeliever.

²¹ Fathers, don't provoke your children, so that they won't be discouraged.

³ Behold, children are a heritage of Yahweh. The fruit of the womb is his reward.

⁴ As arrows in the hand of a mighty man, So are the children of youth.

⁵ Happy is the man who has his quiver full of them. They won't be disappointed when they speak with their enemies in the gate.

²⁴ One who spares the rod hates his son, But one who loves him is careful to discipline him.

²⁰ Children, obey your parents in all things, for this pleases the Lord.

⁷ It is for discipline that you endure. God deals with you as with children, for what son is there whom his father doesn't discipline?

⁴ But if any widow has children or grandchildren, let them learn first to show piety towards their own family, and to repay their parents, for this is{TR adds "good and"} acceptable in the sight of God.

¹ The proverbs of Solomon. A wise son makes a glad father; But a foolish son brings grief to his mother.