8 Listen, my son, to your father's instruction and do not forsake your mother's teaching.
8 My son, hear the instruction of thy father, and forsake not the law of thy mother:
8 Hear, my son, your father's instruction, and forsake not your mother's teaching,
8 Pay close attention, friend, to what your father tells you; never forget what you learned at your mother's knee.
8 My son, hear the instruction of your father, And do not forsake the law of your mother;
8 My child, listen when your father corrects you. Don't neglect your mother's instruction.
61 Children, obey your parents in the Lord, for this is right.
61 Children, obey your parents in the Lord: for this is right.
61 Children, obey your parents in the Lord, for this is right.
61 Children, do what your parents tell you. This is only right.
61 Children, obey your parents in the Lord, for this is right.
61 Children, obey your parents because you belong to the Lord, for this is the right thing to do.
(Read Ephesians 6:1-4)
The great duty of children is, to obey their parents. That obedience includes inward reverence, as well as outward acts, and in every age prosperity has attended those distinguished for obedience to parents. The duty of parents. Be not impatient; use no unreasonable severities. Deal prudently and wisely with children; convince their judgements and work upon their reason. Bring them up well; under proper and compassionate correction; and in the knowledge of the duty God requires. Often is this duty neglected, even among professors of the gospel. Many set their children against religion; but this does not excuse the children's disobedience, though it may be awfully occasion it. God alone can change the heart, yet he gives his blessing to the good lessons and examples of parents, and answers their prayers. But those, whose chief anxiety is that their children should be rich and accomplished, whatever becomes of their souls, must not look for the blessing of God.
Matthew Henry's Commentary on Proverbs 1:8
Commentary on Proverbs 1:7-9
(Read Proverbs 1:7-9)
Fools are persons who have no true wisdom, who follow their own devices, without regard to reason, or reverence for God. Children are reasonable creatures, and when we tell them what they must do, we must tell them why. But they are corrupt and wilful, therefore with the instruction there is need of a law. Let Divine truths and commands be to us most honourable; let us value them, and then they shall be so to us.