He who does violence to his father and chases away his mother is a son who brings shame and reproach.
A servant who deals wisely will rule over a son who acts shamefully and will share the inheritance as one of the brothers.
He who gathers in summer is a prudent son, but he who sleeps in harvest is a son who brings shame.
But when this son of yours came, who has devoured your property with prostitutes, you killed the fattened calf for him!’
The eye that mocks a father and scorns to obey a mother will be picked out by the ravens of the valley and eaten by the vultures.
There are those who curse their fathers and do not bless their mothers.
Whoever robs his father or his mother and says, “That is no transgression,” is a companion to a man who destroys.
Blessed is the one who fears the Lord always, but whoever hardens his heart will fall into calamity.
The one who keeps the law is a son with understanding, but a companion of gluttons shames his father.
Listen to your father who gave you life, and do not despise your mother when she is old. Buy truth, and do not sell it; buy wisdom, instruction, and understanding. The father of the righteous will greatly rejoice; he who fathers a wise son will be glad in him. Let your father and mother be glad; let her who bore you rejoice.
A foolish son is a grief to his father and bitterness to her who bore him.
The proverbs of Solomon. A wise son makes a glad father, but a foolish son is a sorrow to his mother.
“If a man has a stubborn and rebellious son who will not obey the voice of his father or the voice of his mother, and, though they discipline him, will not listen to them, then his father and his mother shall take hold of him and bring him out to the elders of his city at the gate of the place where he lives, and they shall say to the elders of his city, ‘This our son is stubborn and rebellious; he will not obey our voice; he is a glutton and a drunkard.’ Then all the men of the city shall stone him to death with stones. So you shall purge the evil from your midst, and all Israel shall hear, and fear.
And the younger of them said to his father, ‘Father, give me the share of property that is coming to me.’ And he divided his property between them. Not many days later, the younger son gathered all he had and took a journey into a far country, and there he squandered his property in reckless living. And when he had spent everything, a severe famine arose in that country, and he began to be in need. So he went and hired himself out to one of the citizens of that country, who sent him into his fields to feed pigs. And he was longing to be fed with the pods that the pigs ate, and no one gave him anything.
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