July 4, 2025
Do you listen to your parents?
Proverbs 23:13-25
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Key Verse | Proverbs 23:19
My child, listen and be wise:
Keep your heart on the right course.
Proverbs 23:13-25
13Don’t fail to discipline your children.
The rod of punishment won’t kill them.
14Physical discipline
may well save them from death.*
15My child,* if your heart is wise,
my own heart will rejoice!
16Everything in me will celebrate
when you speak what is right.
17Don’t envy sinners,
but always continue to fear the Lord.
18You will be rewarded for this;
your hope will not be disappointed.
19My child, listen and be wise:
Keep your heart on the right course.
20Do not carouse with drunkards
or feast with gluttons,
21for they are on their way to poverty,
and too much sleep clothes them in rags.
22Listen to your father, who gave you life,
and don’t despise your mother when she is old.
23Get the truth and never sell it;
also get wisdom, discipline, and good judgment.
24The father of godly children has cause for joy.
What a pleasure to have children who are wise.*
25So give your father and mother joy!
May she who gave you birth be happy.
This month's memory verse
5 But he was pierced for our transgressions;
he was crushed for our iniquities;
upon him was the chastisement that brought us peace,
and with his wounds we are healed.
6 All we like sheep have gone astray;
we have turned—every one—to his own way;
and the LORD has laid on him
the iniquity of us all.
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