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A Father’s Advice About Wisdom

Children, listen to your father’s teaching. Pay attention and you will learn how to learn. The advice I give is good, so don’t ever forget what I teach you.

When I was my father’s little boy and my mother’s dear son,[a] my father taught me this: “Pay attention to what I say. Obey my commands and you will have a good life.

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Footnotes

  1. Proverbs 4:3 dear son Or “only son.”

Children and Parents

Children, obey your parents the way the Lord wants, because this is the right thing to do. The command says, “You must respect your father and mother.”[a] This is the first command that has a promise with it. And this is the promise: “Then all will go well with you, and you will have a long life on the earth.”[b]

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