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Proverbs 23:22-32 Contemporary English Version Anglicised (CEVUK00)

22. Pay attention to your father,and don't neglect your motherwhen she grows old.

23. Invest in truth and wisdom,discipline and good sense,and don't part with them.

24. Make your father truly happyby living right and showingsound judgment.

25. Make your parents proud,especially your mother.

26. My son, pay close attention,and gladly followmy example.

27. Bad women and unfaithful wivesare like a deep pit—

28. they are waiting to attack youlike a gang of robberswith victim after victim.

29. Who is always in trouble?Who argues and fights?Who has cuts and bruises?Whose eyes are red?

30. Everyone who stays up late,having just one more drink.

31. Don't even lookat that colourful stuffbubbling up in the glass!It goes down so easily,

32. but later it biteslike a poisonous snake.

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