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Proverbs 23:22

Listen to your father who gave you life,

and do not despise your mother when she is old.

Proverbs 23:22 BSB

Proverbs 23:22 has 11 cross-references in the OpenBible.info data, 5 of them with at least 4 reader votes. The strongest point to Proverbs 1:8 (9 votes) and Proverbs 30:17 (9 votes). 11 other verses point back to it. It links with 9 other books, from Genesis 49 to Ephesians 6.

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Which verses does Proverbs 23:22 point to?

Ranked by reader votes. Links with fewer than 4 votes are marked weak.

  1. Proverbs 1:89 votes

    Listen, my son, to your father’s instruction, and do not forsake the teaching of your mother.

  2. Proverbs 30:179 votes

    As for the eye that mocks a father and scorns obedience to a mother, may the ravens of the valley pluck it out and young vultures devour it.

  3. Proverbs 6:207 votes

    My son, keep your father’s commandment, and do not forsake your mother’s teaching.

  4. John 19:26–277 votes

    When Jesus saw His mother and the disciple whom He loved standing nearby, He said to His mother, “Woman, here is your son.” Then He said to the disciple, “Here is your mother.” So from that hour, this disciple took her into his home.

  5. Ephesians 6:1–27 votes

    Children, obey your parents in the Lord, for this is right. “Honor your father and mother” (which is the first commandment with a promise),

  6. Deuteronomy 27:162 votes

    ‘Cursed is he who dishonors his father or mother.’ And let all the people say, ‘Amen!’

  7. Leviticus 19:31 vote

    Each of you must respect his mother and father, and you must keep My Sabbaths. I am the LORD your God.

  8. Deuteronomy 21:18–211 vote

    If a man has a stubborn and rebellious son who does not obey his father and mother and does not listen to them when disciplined, his father and mother are to lay hold of him and bring him to the elders of his city, to the gate of his hometown, …

  9. Proverbs 30:111 vote

    There is a generation of those who curse their fathers and do not bless their mothers.

  10. Matthew 15:4–61 vote

    For God said, ‘Honor your father and mother’ and ‘Anyone who curses his father or mother must be put to death.’ But you say that if anyone says to his father or mother, ‘Whatever you would have received from me is a gift devoted to God,’ …

  11. Mark 7:101 vote

Which verses point to Proverbs 23:22?

The 10 strongest of 11.