Proverbs 1:8
Listen, my son, to your father’s instruction,
What it says
The son is urged to hear his father's instruction and not abandon his mother's teaching.
What it is doing
This verse introduces wisdom as received guidance, not self-invention.
In context
8Listen, my son, to your father’s instruction, 9For they are a garland of grace on your head 10My son, if sinners entice you, 11If they say, “Come along, let us lie in wait for blood, 12let us swallow them alive like Sheol, 13We will find all manner of precious goods; 14Throw in your lot with us; 15my son, do not walk the road with them 16For their feet run to evil, 17How futile it is to spread the net 18But they lie in wait for their own blood; 19Such is the fate of all who are greedy,