Proverbs 31:1
These are the words of King Lemuel—the burden that his mother taught him:
BSB
ASV
The words of king Lemuel; the oracle which his mother taught him.
KJV
The words of king Lemuel, the prophecy that his mother taught him.
That his mother taught him - Compare Pro 1:8; Pro 6:20. If we refer the chapter to Israelite authorship, we may remember the honor paid to the wisdom of Miriam, Deborah, and Huldah; if it was the honor paid to an Edomite or an Arabian, we may think of the Queen of Sheba, whose love of Wisdom led her to sit at the feet of the son of David.
Lemuel - Of Solomon, by the general consent both of Jewish and Christian writers; this name signifies one from God, or belonging to God, and such an one was Solomon eminently, being given by God to David and Bathsheba, as a pledge of his reconciliation to them after their repentance.
Rare words are the text's own signal of a deliberate thread: the fewer the occurrences, the more the places it appears belong together.
The walk8
Follow this verse’s cross-references two steps out. Each card is a verse this one points to, and beneath it the verses that one points to in turn. Where several different paths arrive at the same place, that place is listed first: the text keeps returning to it. Every stop shows its own words, and every stop is a page.
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2 Timothy 3:15From infancy you have known the Holy Scriptures, which are able to make you wise for salvation through faith in Christ Jesus.
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Your commandments make me wiser than my enemies, for they are always with me.
Then He opened their minds to understand the Scriptures.
Train up a child in the way he should go, and when he is old he will not depart from it.
Above all, you must understand that no prophecy of Scripture comes from one’s own interpretation.
Jesus answered, “You are mistaken because you do not know the Scriptures or the power of God.
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2 Timothy 1:5I am reminded of your sincere faith, which first dwelt in your grandmother Lois and your mother Eunice, and I am convinced is in you as well.
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The goal of our instruction is the love that comes from a pure heart, a clear conscience, and a sincere faith.
Paul came to Derbe and then to Lystra, where he found a disciple named Timothy, the son of a believing Jewish woman and a Greek father.
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Proverbs 1:8Listen, my son, to your father’s instruction, and do not forsake the teaching of your mother.
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My son, keep your father’s commandment, and do not forsake your mother’s teaching.