Proverbs 20:29

Coverdale Bible (1535)

The strength of yonge men is their worshipe, & a gray heade, is an honor vnto ye aged.

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Referenced Verses

  • Prov 16:31 : 31 Age is a crowne of worshipe, yf it be founde in the waye of righteousnes.
  • Jer 9:23-24 : 23 Morouer, thus saieth the LORDE: Let not the wise man reioyse in his wisdome, ner the stronge man in his strength, nether the rich man in his riches: 24 But who so wil reioyse, let him reioyse in this, that he vnderstodeth, and knoweth me: for I am the LORDE, which do mercie, equite and rightuousnes vpon earth. Therfore haue I pleasure in soch thinges, saieth ye LORDE.
  • 1 John 2:14 : 14 I haue wrytten vnto you fathers, how that ye haue knowne him, which is fro the begynnynge. I haue wrytten vnto you yonge men, how that ye are stronge, and the worde of God abydeth in you, and ye haue ouercome that wicked.
  • 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.

Similar Verses (AI)

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

  • 6 Childers children are a worshipe vnto the elders, and the fathers are the honor of the children.

  • 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.

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

  • 10 With vs are olde and aged men, yee soch as haue lyued longer then thy forefathers.

  • 9 straungers haue deuoured his strength, yet he regardeth it not: he waxeth ful of gray haires, yet wil he not knowe it:

  • 8 whe the yonge me (as soone as they sawe me) hyd the selues, & when the aged arose, & stode vp vnto me:

  • 30 Woundes dryue awaye euell, and so do stripes the inwarde partes of the body.

  • Eccl 11:9-10
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    9 Be glad then (O thou yonge man) in thy youth, and lat thine hert be mery in thy yonge dayes: folowe the wayes of thine owne hert, and the lust of thine eyes: but be thou sure, that God shal bringe the in to iudgment for all these thinges.

    10 Pvt awaye displeasure out of yi hert, & remoue euell from thy body: for childehode and youth is but vanite.

  • Job 30:1-2
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    1 Bvt now they that are my inferiours & yonger then I, haue me in derision: yee eue they, whose fathers I wolde haue thought scorne to haue set wt the dogges of my catell.

    2 The power & stregth of their hades might do me no good, & as for their age, it is spet & past awaye without eny profit.

  • 6 Do thou acordynge to thy wy?dome, that thou brynge not his graye heer downe to the graue in peace.

  • 18 O what greate troubles & aduersite hast thou shewed me? & yet didest thou turne & refresh me, yee & broughtest me from the depe of the earth agayne.

  • 17 Their delite is in thy name all the daye longe, and thorow thy rightuousnesse they shalbe exalted.

  • 17 O how prosperous and goodly a thynge shall that be? The corne shall make the yongemen chearefull, and the new wyne the maydens.

  • 11 A wyse man putteth of displeasure, & it is his honor to let some fautes passe.

  • 9 All men are not wyse, nether doth euery aged man vnderstonde the thinge that is laufull.

  • 12 Amonge olde personnes there is wy?dome, and amonge the aged is vnderstodinge.

  • 27 O how good is it for a man, to take the yock vpon him from his youth vp?

  • 20 My honor encreased more & more, and my bowe was euer the stronger in my hande.

  • 30 Children are weery and faynt, and the strongest men fall:

  • 10 Then arme thy self with thine owne power, vp, decke the in thy ioly araye,

  • 25 Than his flesh (which hath bene in misery & trouble) shalbe, as it was in his youth.

  • 12 Yonge men & maydes, olde men and children.

  • 35 The wyse shal haue honor in possession, but shame is the promocio that fooles shal haue.

  • 2 ye captayne and the soudyare, ye iudge and the prophete, the wyse and the aged ma,

  • 10 The dayes of oure age are iij. score yeares & ten: & though men be so stronge that they come to iiij. score yeares, yet is their strength then but laboure and sorowe: so soone passeth it awaye, & we are gone.

  • 6 Thankesgeuynge and worshipe are before him, power and honoure are in his Sanctuary.

  • 27 Thankesgeuynge and worshipe are before him, strength and ioye is in his place.

  • 5 His honoure is greate in thy sauynge health, glory and greate worshipe shalt thou laye vpon him.

  • 27 Lo, this is the matter, as we oure selues haue proued by experience. Therfore now that thou hearest it, take better hede to thy selff.

  • 20 He taketh the verite from out of the mouth, & disapoynteth ye aged of their wy?dome.

  • 16 Shewe thy seruauntes thy worke, & their children thy glory.

  • 28 The increase and prosperite of the comons is the kynges honoure, but the decaye of the people is the confucio of the prynce.

  • 2 My tonge is ye penne of a ready wryter.

  • 1 Rebuke not an Elder, but exhorte him as a father: and the yoger men as brethren:

  • 2 That ye elder men be sober, honest, discrete, sounde in the faith, in loue, in pacience.

  • 13 A poore childe beynge wyse, is better then an olde kinge, that doteth, and can not bewarre in tyme to come.

  • 5 And then shal the LORDE of hoostes be a ioyful crowne, and a glorious garlade vnto the remnaunt of his people.

  • 9 She shal make the a gracious heade, and garnish the with ye crowne of glory.

  • 5 A wyse ma is stroge, yee a ma of vnderstodinge is better, the he yt is mightie of stregth.

  • 30 As for fauor, it is disceatfull, and beutie is a vayne thinge: but a woman that feareth the LORDE, she is worthy to be praysed.

  • 29 Yf ye take this fro me also, and eny mysfortune happe him, then shal ye brynge my gray heer with sorowe downe vnto the graue.

  • 14 Soch as be planted in the house of the LORDE,be frutefull, plenteous & grene.