Proverbs 16:31

Coverdale Bible (1535)

Age is a crowne of worshipe, yf it be founde in the waye of righteousnes.

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  • Prov 20:29 : 29 The strength of yonge men is their worshipe, & a gray heade, is an honor vnto ye aged.
  • Lev 19:32 : 32 Thou shalt ryse vp before a graye heade, and shalt geue reuerence vnto the aged. For thou shalt feare God: for I am ye LORDE.
  • 1 Sam 12:2-5 : 2 And now lo, there goeth youre kynge before you. As for me, I am waxen olde and graye heered, and my sonnes are with you: and I haue gone before you fro my youth vp vnto this daye. 3 Beholde, here am I: answere ye agaynst me before the RORDE and his anoynted, yf I haue taken eny mans oxe or asse, yf I haue done eny man violence or wronge, If I haue oppressed eny ma, yf I haue receaued a gifte of eny mans hande, and kepte it secretly, I wil restore it you agayne. 4 They saide: Thou hast done vs nether violence ner wronge, nether oppressed, ner taken ought of eny mans hande. 5 He sayde: The LORDE be witnesse agaynst you, and so be his anoynted this daye, that ye haue founde nothinge in my hade. They saide: Yee they shalbe witnesses.
  • Prov 3:1-2 : 1 My sonne, forget not my lawe, but se yt thine hert kepe my comaundemetes. 2 For they shal prologe ye dayes & yeares of yi lyfe, & brynge ye peace.
  • Gen 47:7-9 : 7 Ioseph brought in Iacob his father also, & set him before Pharao. And Iacob thanked Pharao. 8 But Pharao axed Iacob: How olde art thou? 9 Iacob sayde: The tyme of my pylgremage is an hudreth and thirtie yeares: litle and euell is the tyme of my pilgremage, and attayneth not vnto the tyme of my fathers in their pylgremages. 10 And Iacob thanked Pharao, and wete out from him.
  • Prov 17:6 : 6 Childers children are a worshipe vnto the elders, and the fathers are the honor of the children.
  • 1 Chr 29:10-25 : 10 and praysed God, and sayde before the whole congregacion: Praysed be thou O LORDE God of Israel oure father, 11 vnto the belongeth worshippe and power, glory, victory & thankes: for all that is in heauen and earth, is thine: thine is ye kyngdome, and thou art exalted aboue all prynces. 12 Thine are riches and honoure before ye, thou reignest ouer all, in thy hande consisteth power and might, in thy hade is it to make euery man greate and stronge. 13 Now thake we the oure God, and prayse ye name of thy glory: 14 For who am I? What is my people? that we shulde be able with a fre wyll to offre, as this is done? For of the commeth all, and of thy hande haue we geuen it the: 15 For we are but pilgrems & straugers before the, as were all oure fathers. Oure life vpon earth is as a shadowe, and here is no abydinge. 16 O LORDE oure God, all this abundaunce that we haue prepared to buylde the an house vnto thy name, came of thy hande, and is thine alltogether. 17 I knowe my God, that thou tryest the hert, and that vnfaynednes is acceptable vnto the: therfore haue I geue all this with an vnfayned hert, eue with a good wyll, and now haue I had ioye to se thy people (which here are present) offre with a fre wyll vnto the. 18 O LORDE God of oure fathers Abraham, Isaac, & Israel, kepe thou euermore soch purposes and thoughtes in ye hertes of thy people, & prepare thou their hertes vnto the. 19 And graunte my sonne Salomon a perfecte hert, that he maye kepe thy comaundementes, thy testimonies, & thy statutes, that he maye do all, & buylde this palace, which I haue prepared. 20 And Dauid sayde vnto the whole cogregacion: O prayse the LORDE yor God. And all the cogregacion praysed ye LORDE God of their fathers, & bowed them selues, & worshipped the LORDE & then the kynge, 21 and offred sacrifices vnto the LORDE. And on ye nexte morow offred they burntofferynges, a M. bullockes, a M. rames, a M. labes wt their drynkofferynges, & plenteously offred they amonge all Israel. 22 And they ate and dranke the same daie before the LORDE with greate ioye, and made Salomon the sonne of Dauid kynge ye seconde tyme, and anoynted him to be ye prynce for the LORDE, & Sadoc to be the prest. 23 Thus sat Salomon vpon the seate of ye LORDE, kynge in his fathers steade, & prospered. And all Israel obeyed him, 24 & all ye rulers & mightie men, & all kynge Dauids children submytted themselues vnto kynge Salomon. 25 And ye LORDE made Salomon excellent & greate in ye sighte of all Israel, and gaue him soch a glorious kyngdome, as none had before him ouer Israel.
  • Job 32:6-7 : 6 so that he gaue answere himself, and sayde: Considerinve yt I am yonge, & ye be men of age, I was afrayed, & durst not shewe forth my mynde, 7 for I thought thus within my self: It becometh olde men to speake, & the aged to teach wy?dome.
  • Eccl 4:13 : 13 A poore childe beynge wyse, is better then an olde kinge, that doteth, and can not bewarre in tyme to come.
  • Luke 1:6 : 6 They were both righteous before God, and walked in all the commaundementes and statutes of the LORDE vnreproueably.
  • Luke 2:29-38 : 29 LORDE, now lettest thou thy seruaut departe in peace, acordinge to thy promesse. 30 For myne eyes haue sene thy Sauioure, 31 who thou hast prepared before all people. 32 A light for the lightenynge of the Heythe, & for the prayse of yi people of Israel. 33 And his father and mother marueyled at the thinges that were spoke of him. 34 And Symeon blessed them, and sayde vnto Mary his mother: Beholde, this (childe) shalbe set to a fall, and to an vprysinge agayne of many in Israel, and for a token, which shalbe spoke agaynst. 35 And the swerde shal pearse thy soule, that the thoughtes of many hertes maye be opened. 36 And there was a prophetisse, one Anna, the doughter of Phanuel of the trybe of Aser, which was of a greate age, and had lyued seuen yeares with hir hussbade from hir virginite, 37 & had now bene a wedowe aboute foure score & foure yeares, which came neuer fro the teple, seruynge God wt fastynge and prayenge, daye and night: 38 the same came forth also the same houre, and praysed the LORDE, and spake of him vnto all that loked for the redempcion at Ierusalem.
  • Phlm 1:9 : 9 yet for loues sake I rather beseke ye, though I be as I am, eue Paul aged, and now a presoner also of Iesu Christ.

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    28Mercy & faithfulnes preserue the kynge, & with louynge kyndnes his seate is holden vp.

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  • Prov 17:6-7
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    6Childers children are a worshipe vnto the elders, and the fathers are the honor of the children.

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  • Lev 19:32
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