Proverbs 23:24

KJV1611 – Modern English

The father of the righteous shall greatly rejoice, and he who begets a wise child shall have joy of him.

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  • Prov 10:1 : 1 The proverbs of Solomon. A wise son makes a glad father, but a foolish son is the heaviness of his mother.
  • Prov 15:20 : 20 A wise son makes a glad father, but a foolish man despises his mother.
  • Prov 23:15-16 : 15 My son, if your heart is wise, my heart shall rejoice, even mine. 16 Yes, my inmost being shall rejoice, when your lips speak right things.
  • Prov 29:3 : 3 Whoever loves wisdom makes his father glad; but he who keeps company with harlots wastes his wealth.
  • Eccl 2:19 : 19 And who knows whether he will be wise or a fool? Yet he will rule over all my labor in which I have labored and in which I have shown myself wise under the sun. This also is vanity.
  • Phlm 1:9 : 9 Yet for love's sake I rather appeal to you, being such a one as Paul, the aged, and now also a prisoner of Christ Jesus.
  • Phlm 1:20 : 20 Yes, brother, let me have joy from you in the Lord: refresh my heart in the Lord.
  • 1 Kgs 1:48 : 48 And also thus said the king, Blessed be the LORD God of Israel, who has granted one to sit on my throne this day, my own eyes seeing it.
  • 1 Kgs 2:1-3 : 1 Now the days of David grew near that he should die; and he charged Solomon his son, saying, 2 I go the way of all the earth: be strong therefore, and show yourself a man; 3 And keep the charge of the Lord your God, to walk in His ways, to keep His statutes, His commandments, His judgments, and His testimonies, as it is written in the law of Moses, that you may prosper in all that you do, and wherever you turn yourself:
  • 1 Kgs 2:9 : 9 Now therefore do not hold him guiltless, for you are a wise man and know what you ought to do to him; but bring his gray head down to the grave with blood.

Similar Verses (AI)

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  • Prov 23:25-26
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    25Your father and your mother shall be glad, and she who bore you shall rejoice.

    26My son, give me your heart, and let your eyes observe my ways.

  • Prov 23:15-16
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    82%

    15My son, if your heart is wise, my heart shall rejoice, even mine.

    16Yes, my inmost being shall rejoice, when your lips speak right things.

  • Prov 17:21
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    21He who begets a fool does so to his sorrow, and the father of a fool has no joy.

  • Prov 10:1
    78%

    1The proverbs of Solomon. A wise son makes a glad father, but a foolish son is the heaviness of his mother.

  • Prov 15:20-21
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    78%

    20A wise son makes a glad father, but a foolish man despises his mother.

    21Folly is joy to him who is destitute of wisdom, but a man of understanding walks uprightly.

  • Prov 29:17
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    17Correct your son, and he will give you rest; yes, he will give delight to your soul.

  • Prov 17:25
    76%

    25A foolish son is a grief to his father, and bitterness to her who bore him.

  • Prov 27:11
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    11My son, be wise, and make my heart glad, that I may have an answer for him who reproaches me.

  • Prov 17:6
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    6Children's children are the crown of old men, and the glory of children is their fathers.

  • Prov 3:12-13
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    12For whom the LORD loves he corrects; even as a father the son in whom he delights.

    13Happy is the man that finds wisdom, and the man that gains understanding.

  • Prov 23:22-23
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    74%

    22Listen to your father who begot you, and do not despise your mother when she is old.

    23Buy the truth, and do not sell it, also wisdom, instruction, and understanding.

  • Ps 127:3
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    3Behold, children are a heritage from the LORD, and the fruit of the womb is His reward.

  • Prov 22:6
    73%

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

  • Prov 29:3
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    3Whoever loves wisdom makes his father glad; but he who keeps company with harlots wastes his wealth.

  • Prov 20:7
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    7The just man walks in his integrity; his children are blessed after him.

  • Prov 4:1
    72%

    1Listen, you children, to the instruction of a father, and pay attention to gain understanding.

  • Prov 13:24
    72%

    24He who spares his rod hates his son, but he who loves him disciplines him promptly.

  • Prov 28:7
    72%

    7Whoever keeps the law is a wise son, but he who is a companion of riotous men shames his father.

  • Prov 17:2
    72%

    2A wise servant will rule over a son who causes shame, and will share the inheritance among the brethren.

  • Eccl 4:13
    72%

    13Better is a poor and wise child than an old and foolish king who will not be admonished anymore.

  • Prov 1:8
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    8My son, hear the instruction of your father, and do not forsake the law of your mother;

  • Jer 20:15
    71%

    15Cursed be the man who brought tidings to my father, saying, A man child is born to you; making him very glad.

  • Prov 23:13
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    13Do not withhold correction from a child, for if you beat him with the rod, he will not die.

  • 3 John 1:4
    71%

    4I have no greater joy than to hear that my children walk in truth.

  • Prov 13:22
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    22A good man leaves an inheritance to his children's children, but the wealth of the sinner is stored up for the just.

  • Prov 29:15
    71%

    15The rod and reproof give wisdom; but a child left to himself brings shame to his mother.

  • Ps 45:16
    70%

    16Instead of your fathers shall be your children, whom you may make princes in all the earth.

  • Prov 29:21
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    21He who delicately brings up his servant from childhood shall have him as a son in the end.

  • Eph 6:4
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    4And, you fathers, do not provoke your children to wrath, but bring them up in the nurture and admonition of the Lord.

  • Prov 15:23
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    23A man has joy by the answer of his mouth, and a word spoken in due season, how good it is!

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    2His descendants shall be mighty upon the earth; the generation of the upright shall be blessed.

  • Prov 23:19
    70%

    19Hear, my son, and be wise, and guide your heart in the way.

  • Prov 13:1
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    1A wise son hears his father's instruction, but a scoffer does not listen to rebuke.

  • Ps 127:5
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    5Happy is the man who has his quiver full of them; they shall not be ashamed, but shall speak with their enemies in the gate.

  • Prov 14:26
    70%

    26In the fear of the LORD is strong confidence, and His children will have a place of refuge.

  • Prov 8:32
    70%

    32Now therefore listen to me, O children, for blessed are those who keep my ways.

  • Deut 21:18
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    18If a man has a stubborn and rebellious son, who will not obey the voice of his father or the voice of his mother, and who, when they have chastened him, will not listen to them,

  • Prov 19:13
    70%

    13A foolish son is the calamity of his father, and the contentions of a wife are a continual dripping.

  • Prov 22:15
    70%

    15Foolishness is bound in the heart of a child, but the rod of correction shall drive it far from him.

  • Prov 19:18
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    18Chasten your son while there is hope, and do not spare for his crying.

  • Prov 19:26
    69%

    26He who wastes his father, and chases away his mother, is a son who causes shame, and brings reproach.

  • Ps 128:4
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    4Behold, thus shall the man be blessed who fears the LORD.

  • Prov 15:5
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    5A fool despises his father's instruction, but he who regards reproof is prudent.