Proverbs 7:24
Hearken unto me now therefore, O ye children, and attend to the words of my mouth.
Cross-reference
Proverbs 4:1 opens with an identical call to listen to a father's instruction, reinforcing the same father–son wisdom tradition.
Proverbs 5:7 echoes the same urgent plea to sons with nearly identical phrasing — 'listen to me, do not depart from my words.'
In Proverbs 8:32, Wisdom herself calls 'O sons, listen to me,' mirroring the father's voice and tying parental instruction to divine wisdom.
Proverbs 8:33 continues Wisdom’s appeal to 'hear instruction and be wise,' reinforcing the call to heed teaching found in 7:24.
Genesis 49:2 has Jacob summoning his sons to listen to their father, directly paralleling the fatherly call in Proverbs 7:24.
Psalm 34:11 invites children to listen and learn the fear of the LORD, a direct parallel to the father’s call for attention in Proverbs.
1 Corinthians 4:14 shows Paul addressing his readers as beloved children and warning them — a NT fatherly call parallel to Proverbs.
1 Thessalonians 2:11 describes Paul's fatherly exhortation — mirroring the father's appeal to his sons in Proverbs.