Proverbs 23:22

22  Listen to your pfather who gave you life,

and do not despise your mother qwhen she is old.

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Proverbs 1:8
Hear, my son, your father’s instruction, and forsake not your mother’s teaching,

Proverbs 6:20
My son, keep your father’s commandment, and forsake not your mother’s teaching.

Leviticus 19:32
“You shall stand up before the gray head and honor the face of an old man, and you shall fear your God: I am the LORD.

1 Timothy 5:1
Do not rebuke an older man but encourage him as you would a father, younger men as brothers,


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