Proverbs 29:3

Authorized King James Version (1611)

¶ Whoso loveth wisdom rejoiceth his father: but he that keepeth company with harlots spendeth [his] substance.

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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.
  • Luke 15:30 : 30 ‹But as soon as this thy son was come, which hath devoured thy living with harlots, thou hast killed for him the fatted calf.›
  • Luke 15:13 : 13 ‹And not many days after the younger son gathered all together, and took his journey into a far country, and there wasted his substance with riotous living.›
  • Prov 6:26 : 26 For by means of a whorish woman [a man is brought] to a piece of bread: and the adulteress will hunt for the precious life.
  • Prov 15:20 : 20 ¶ A wise son maketh a glad father: but a foolish man despiseth his mother.
  • Prov 27:11 : 11 ¶ My son, be wise, and make my heart glad, that I may answer him that reproacheth me.
  • Prov 28:7 : 7 ¶ Whoso keepeth the law [is] a wise son: but he that is a companion of riotous [men] shameth his father.
  • Prov 5:8-9 : 8 Remove thy way far from her, and come not nigh the door of her house: 9 Lest thou give thine honour unto others, and thy years unto the cruel: 10 Lest strangers be filled with thy wealth; and thy labours [be] in the house of a stranger;
  • Prov 28:19 : 19 ¶ He that tilleth his land shall have plenty of bread: but he that followeth after vain [persons] shall have poverty enough.
  • Luke 1:13-17 : 13 But the angel said unto him, Fear not, Zacharias: for thy prayer is heard; and thy wife Elisabeth shall bear thee a son, and thou shalt call his name John. 14 And thou shalt have joy and gladness; and many shall rejoice at his birth. 15 For he shall be great in the sight of the Lord, and shall drink neither wine nor strong drink; and he shall be filled with the Holy Ghost, even from his mother's womb. 16 And many of the children of Israel shall he turn to the Lord their God. 17 And he shall go before him in the spirit and power of Elias, to turn the hearts of the fathers to the children, and the disobedient to the wisdom of the just; to make ready a people prepared for the Lord.
  • Prov 21:17 : 17 ¶ He that loveth pleasure [shall be] a poor man: he that loveth wine and oil shall not be rich.
  • Prov 21:20 : 20 ¶ [There is] treasure to be desired and oil in the dwelling of the wise; but a foolish man spendeth it up.
  • Prov 23:15 : 15 My son, if thine heart be wise, my heart shall rejoice, even mine.
  • Prov 23:24-25 : 24 The father of the righteous shall greatly rejoice: and he that begetteth a wise [child] shall have joy of him. 25 Thy father and thy mother shall be glad, and she that bare thee shall rejoice.

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    12For whom the LORD loveth he correcteth; even as a father the son [in whom] he delighteth.

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    11¶ My son, be wise, and make my heart glad, that I may answer him that reproacheth me.

  • Prov 19:26-27
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