Proverbs Chapter 6 verse 20 Holy Bible
My son, keep the commandment of thy father, And forsake not the law of thy mother:
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My son, keep the rule of your father, and have in memory the teaching of your mother:
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My son, observe thy father's commandment, and forsake not the teaching of thy mother;
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My son, keep thy father's commandment, and forsake not the law of thy mother:
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My son, keep your father's commandment, And don't forsake your mother's teaching.
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Keep, my son, the command of thy father, And leave not the law of thy mother.
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Pulpit Commentary
Pulpit CommentaryVerses 20-35. - 12. Twelfth admonitory discourse. In this the teacher returns again to the subject which he has already treated in the eighth discourse. The extreme tendency of men, and especially young men, to sins of impurity is no doubt, as Delitzsch remarks, the reason why this subject is again resumed. The subject is gradually worked up to the preceding admonitions in vers. 20-23, pointing out that the way of life, the way of safety, is to be secured by obedience to the precepts of parents, whose commandment and law illumine the perilous road of life, and whose reproofs are salutary to the soul. The arguments against the sin of adultery are cogent in their dissuasiveness, and none stronger of a purely temporal nature could be devised. It may be objected that the sin is not put forward in the higher light, as an offence before God. and that the appeal is made simply on the lines of self-interest; but who will deny that the scope of the teaching is distinctly moral, or that mankind is not influenced and dissuaded from sin by such a category of evils as includes personal beggary, dishonour, and death? Verse 20. - The first part of this verse is couched in almost the same terms as that of Proverbs 1:8, except that mitz'rath, "precept," preceptum, is here used instead of musar, eruditio, or "disciplinary instruction," while the latter part of the two verses are identical.
