Proverbs 23:24

Authorized King James Version (1611)

The father of the righteous shall greatly rejoice: and he that begetteth a wise [child] shall 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 thine heart be wise, my heart shall rejoice, even mine. 16 Yea, my reins shall rejoice, when thy lips speak right things.
  • Prov 29:3 : 3 ¶ Whoso loveth wisdom rejoiceth his father: but he that keepeth company with harlots spendeth [his] substance.
  • Eccl 2:19 : 19 And who knoweth whether he shall be a wise [man] or a fool? yet shall he have rule over all my labour wherein I have laboured, and wherein I have shewed myself wise under the sun. This [is] also vanity.
  • Phlm 1:9 : 9 Yet for love's sake I rather beseech [thee], being such an one as Paul the aged, and now also a prisoner of Jesus Christ.
  • Phlm 1:20 : 20 Yea, brother, let me have joy of thee in the Lord: refresh my bowels in the Lord.
  • 1 Kgs 1:48 : 48 And also thus said the king, Blessed [be] the LORD God of Israel, which 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 go the way of all the earth: be thou strong therefore, and shew thyself a man; 3 And keep the charge of the LORD thy God, to walk in his ways, to keep his statutes, and his commandments, and his judgments, and his testimonies, as it 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 knowest what thou oughtest to do unto him; but his hoar head bring thou down to the grave with blood.

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    25Thy father and thy mother shall be glad, and she that bare thee shall rejoice.

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  • Prov 23:15-16
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    15My son, if thine heart be wise, my heart shall rejoice, even mine.

    16Yea, my reins shall rejoice, when thy lips speak right things.

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  • Prov 15:20-21
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    20¶ A wise son maketh a glad father: but a foolish man despiseth his mother.

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    8My son, hear the instruction of thy father, and forsake not the law of thy mother:

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