Proverbs 1:8-9 Devotionals, Articles & Bible Study

⁸Listen, my son, to your father’s instruction,

and do not forsake the teaching of your mother.

⁹For they are a garland of grace on your head

and a pendant around your neck.

— Proverbs 1:8-9

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