OLD TESTAMENT

Proverbs 13:1

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A wise son listens to his father’s instruction, but a scoffer doesn’t listen to rebuke.

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Verse 1. Doctrine. Or he gives proof of his good education, ( Calmet.) and excites even his father to advance in piety. Ven. Bede.—Septuagint “is obedient to his father; but the disobedient son is in destruction.” Bible.

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