Proverbs 23:24

American Standard Version (1901)

The father of the righteous will greatly rejoice; And he that begetteth a wise child will have joy of him.

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  • Prov 10:1 : 1 The proverbs of Solomon. A wise son maketh a glad father; But a foolish son is the heaviness of his mother.
  • Prov 15:20 : 20 A wise son maketh a glad father; But a foolish man despiseth his mother.
  • Prov 23:15-16 : 15 My son, if thy heart be wise, My heart will be glad, even mine: 16 Yea, my heart will rejoice, When thy lips speak right things.
  • Prov 29:3 : 3 Whoso loveth wisdom rejoiceth his father; But he that keepeth company with harlots wasteth [his] substance.
  • Eccl 2:19 : 19 And who knoweth whether he will be a wise man or a fool? yet will he have rule over all my labor wherein I have labored, and wherein I have showed myself wise under the sun. This also is vanity.
  • Phlm 1:9 : 9 yet for love's sake I rather beseech, being such a one as Paul the aged, and now a prisoner also of Christ Jesus:
  • Phlm 1:20 : 20 Yea, brother, let me have joy of thee in the Lord: refresh my heart in Christ.
  • 1 Kgs 1:48 : 48 And also thus said the king, Blessed be Jehovah, the God of Israel, who hath given one to sit on my throne this day, mine eyes even seeing it.
  • 1 Kgs 2:1-3 : 1 Now the days of David drew nigh that he should die; and he charged Solomon his son, saying, 2 I am going the way of all the earth: be thou strong therefore, and show thyself a man; 3 and keep the charge of Jehovah thy God, to walk in his ways, to keep his statutes, [and] his commandments, and his ordinances, and his testimonies, according to that which is written in the law of Moses, that thou mayest prosper in all that thou doest, and whithersoever thou turnest thyself.
  • 1 Kgs 2:9 : 9 Now therefore hold him not guiltless, for thou art a wise man; and thou wilt know what thou oughtest to do unto him, and thou shalt bring his hoar head down to Sheol with blood.

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    25Let thy father and thy mother be glad, And let her that bare thee rejoice.

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  • Prov 23:15-16
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    82%

    15My son, if thy heart be wise, My heart will be glad, even mine:

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    21He that begetteth a fool [doeth it] to his sorrow; And the father of a fool hath no joy.

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    1The proverbs of Solomon. A wise son maketh a glad father; But a foolish son is the heaviness of his mother.

  • Prov 15:20-21
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    78%

    20A wise son maketh a glad father; But a foolish man despiseth his mother.

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  • Prov 29:17
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    17Correct thy son, and he will give thee rest; Yea, he will give delight unto thy soul.

  • Prov 17:25
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    25A foolish son is a grief to his father, And bitterness to her that bare him.

  • Prov 27:11
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    11My son, be wise, and make my heart glad, That I may answer him that reproacheth me.

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    6Children's children are the crown of old men; And the glory of children are their fathers.

  • Prov 3:12-13
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    76%

    12For whom Jehovah loveth he reproveth; Even as a father the son in whom he delighteth.

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  • Prov 23:22-23
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    22Hearken unto thy father that begat thee, And despise not thy mother when she is old.

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    3Lo, children are a heritage of Jehovah; [And] the fruit of the womb is [his] reward.

  • Prov 22:6
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    6Train up a child in the way he should go, And even when he is old he will not depart from it.

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  • Prov 20:7
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    7A righteous man that walketh in his integrity, Blessed are his children after him.

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  • Prov 13:24
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    24He that spareth his rod hateth his son; But he that loveth him chasteneth him betimes.

  • Prov 28:7
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  • Prov 17:2
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    2A servant that dealeth wisely shall have rule over a son that causeth shame, And shall have part in the inheritance among the brethren.

  • Eccl 4:13
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    13Better is a poor and wise youth than an old and foolish king, who knoweth not how to receive admonition any more.

  • Prov 1:8
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    8My son, hear the instruction of thy father, And forsake not the law of thy mother:

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    15Cursed be the man who brought tidings to my father, saying, A man-child is born unto thee; making him very glad.

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    13Withhold not correction from the child; [For] if thou beat him with the rod, he will not die.

  • 3 John 1:4
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