“Listen to your father who gave you life, and don’t despise your mother when she is old.”

Reading this verse in context

This page shows one verse on its own, which is rarely how it was written. Proverbs 23 contains 35 verses, and the sentences either side usually decide what this one means. Read the whole chapter before you quote it.

Text: World English Bible, Protestant edition (engwebp), eBible.org — public domain.