Proverbs 6:20 (BSB)

My son, keep your father’s commandment, and do not forsake your mother’s teaching.

From Proverbs 6. Also in the ESV.

Commentary on Proverbs 6:20

• Matthew Henry (Presbyterian), Matthew Henry's Complete Commentary on Proverbs 6:20-35: Here is, I. A general exhortation faithfully to adhere to the word of God and to take it for our guide in all our actions. 1. We must look upon the word of God both as a light (Pro 6:23) and as a law, Pro 6:20, Pro 6:23.
• John Gill (Reformed Baptist), Exposition of the Old and New Testaments on Proverbs 6:20: Bind them continually upon thine heart,.... Not upon the head or arm, as the words of the law were to be bound, Deu 6:3; to which there seems to be an allusion; and which may confirm the sense of the words given, that this respects the law of God itself, and the precepts of it, instructed in by parents; but they should be bound upon...
• Keil & Delitzsch (Lutheran), Biblical Commentary on the Old Testament on Proverbs 6:20-21: Pro 6:20-21 After these three smaller sections, the teacher of wisdom returns here to the theme of the eighth: Warning against sins of the flesh, whose power and prevalence among men is so immeasurably great, that their terrible consequences cannot sufficiently be held up before them, particularly before youth. 20 Keep, my son, the commandment of thy father, And reject not the instruction of thy mother.