Proverbs 29:21

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If a servant is pampered from youth, in the end he will cause grief.

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  • Prov 17:2
    77%

    2A wise servant will rule over a disgraceful son and will share in the inheritance among the brothers.

  • Prov 29:19-20
    2 verses
    76%

    19A servant cannot be corrected by mere words; even if he understands, he will not respond.

    20Do you see a man who is hasty in his words? There is more hope for a fool than for him.

  • Prov 22:6-7
    2 verses
    74%

    6Train a child in the way he should go, and even when he is old he will not depart from it.

    7The rich rule over the poor, and the borrower is servant to the lender.

  • Prov 29:22
    73%

    22An angry man stirs up strife, and a hot-tempered man commits many transgressions.

  • Prov 11:29
    73%

    29Whoever troubles his own household will inherit the wind, and the fool will be a servant to the wise of heart.

  • Deut 21:18-19
    2 verses
    73%

    18If a man has a stubborn and rebellious son who does not obey his father or mother, and they discipline him but he will not listen to them,

    19his father and mother are to take hold of him and bring him to the elders at the gate of his city.

  • Prov 29:17
    73%

    17Discipline your son, and he will bring you peace; he will give delight to your soul.

  • Exod 21:20
    73%

    20If a man strikes his male or female servant with a rod, and the servant dies under his hand, he shall surely be punished.

  • Prov 19:18-19
    2 verses
    72%

    18Discipline your son while there is hope, and do not desire his death.

    19A person with great anger must bear the penalty; if you rescue them, you will have to do it again.

  • Prov 13:24
    72%

    24Whoever spares the rod hates their child, but the one who loves their child is diligent to discipline them.

  • Prov 19:10
    72%

    10Luxury is not fitting for a fool, much less for a servant to rule over princes.

  • Job 14:21
    72%

    21If his sons are honored, he does not know it; if they are brought low, he does not see it.

  • Luke 12:44
    72%

    44Truly I tell you, he will put him in charge of all his possessions.

  • Prov 17:21
    72%

    21The one who fathers a fool brings grief; the father of a senseless child has no joy.

  • Prov 20:21
    71%

    21An inheritance gained hastily at the beginning will not be blessed at the end.

  • Prov 30:22
    71%

    22A servant who becomes king, a fool who is filled with food,

  • Prov 27:18
    71%

    18Whoever tends a fig tree will eat its fruit, and whoever takes care of their master will be honored.

  • Matt 21:37
    71%

    37Finally, he sent his son to them. 'They will respect my son,' he said.

  • Matt 24:47
    71%

    47Truly I tell you, he will put him in charge of all his possessions.

  • Lev 25:53
    71%

    53They are to be treated as a yearly hired worker while with their buyer, and they must not be ruled over harshly in your sight.

  • Prov 29:1
    70%

    1A man who is often corrected but stubbornly stiffens his neck will be suddenly broken beyond healing.

  • Prov 15:20
    70%

    20A wise son brings joy to his father, but a foolish person despises his mother.

  • Exod 21:4-7
    4 verses
    70%

    4If his master gives him a wife and she bears him sons or daughters, the woman and her children shall belong to her master, and he shall go out by himself.

    5But if the servant declares, ‘I love my master, my wife, and my children; I do not want to go free,’

    6then his master shall bring him before God. He shall take him to the door or the doorpost and pierce his ear with an awl. Then he will be his servant for life.

    7If a man sells his daughter as a servant, she is not to go free as male servants do.

  • Prov 23:24
    70%

    24The father of a righteous child will greatly rejoice; a man who fathers a wise son will delight in him.

  • Gal 4:1
    70%

    1I say that as long as the heir is a child, he is no different from a slave, even though he is the master of everything.

  • Prov 22:29
    70%

    29Do you see someone skilled in their work? They will serve before kings; they will not serve before obscure people.

  • Prov 29:15
    70%

    15The rod of correction and discipline impart wisdom, but a child left to himself brings shame to his mother.

  • Prov 14:35
    70%

    35A king delights in a wise servant, but his anger falls on a disgraceful one.

  • Eccl 4:13
    70%

    13Better a poor but wise youth than an old but foolish king who no longer knows how to heed a warning.

  • Eccl 7:21
    70%

    21Do not pay attention to every word people say, or you may hear your servant cursing you.

  • Prov 30:10
    70%

    10Do not slander a servant to his master, or he will curse you, and you will be found guilty.

  • Prov 12:9
    70%

    9Better to be lowly and have a servant than to act important and have no food.

  • Prov 17:25
    70%

    25A foolish son brings grief to his father and bitterness to the mother who bore him.

  • Lev 25:41
    69%

    41Then they and their children are to be released, and they will return to their own family and to the property of their ancestors.

  • Luke 17:7-8
    2 verses
    69%

    7Which of you, having a servant plowing or tending sheep, will say to him when he comes in from the field, ‘Come at once and sit down to eat’?

    8Instead, won't he say to him, ‘Prepare my dinner, make yourself ready and serve me while I eat and drink; after that, you may eat and drink’?

  • Prov 22:15
    69%

    15Folly is bound up in the heart of a child, but the rod of discipline will drive it far away.

  • Prov 23:14
    69%

    14You shall strike him with the rod and deliver his soul from Sheol.

  • Prov 3:12
    69%

    12For the LORD disciplines the one He loves, as a father the son in whom he delights.

  • Prov 28:23
    69%

    23Whoever rebukes a person will find favor afterward, more than one who flatters with the tongue.

  • Prov 19:26
    69%

    26Whoever robs their father and drives out their mother is a child who brings shame and disgrace.

  • Exod 21:26
    69%

    26If a man strikes the eye of his male or female servant and destroys it, he must let the servant go free in compensation for the eye.

  • Deut 15:17
    69%

    17then take an awl and pierce their ear to the door, and they will become your servant for life. You shall do the same for your female servant.