Proverbs 27:11

KJV1611 – Modern English

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

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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.
  • Ps 119:42 : 42 So shall I have an answer for him who reproaches me, for I trust in Your word.
  • 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 23:24-25 : 24 The father of the righteous shall greatly rejoice, and he who begets a wise child shall have joy of him. 25 Your father and your mother shall be glad, and she who bore you shall rejoice.
  • Prov 29:3 : 3 Whoever loves wisdom makes his father glad; but he who keeps company with harlots wastes his wealth.
  • Eccl 2:18-21 : 18 Yes, I hated all my labor that I had labored under the sun, because I must leave it to the man who will come after me. 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. 20 Therefore I turned my heart to despair over all the labor which I had done under the sun. 21 For there is a man whose labor is with wisdom, knowledge, and skill. Yet he must leave his inheritance to a man who has not labored for it. This also is vanity and a great evil.
  • Phlm 1:7 : 7 For we have great joy and solace in your love, because the hearts of the saints are refreshed by you, brother.
  • Phlm 1:19-20 : 19 I, Paul, am writing this with my own hand, I will repay it: although I do not say to you that you owe me even your own self besides. 20 Yes, brother, let me have joy from you in the Lord: refresh my heart in the Lord.
  • 2 John 1:4 : 4 I rejoiced greatly that I found your children walking in truth, as we received a commandment from the Father.
  • Ps 127:4-5 : 4 As arrows are in the hand of a mighty warrior, so are the children of one's youth. 5 Happy 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 15:20 : 20 A wise son makes a glad father, but a foolish man despises his mother.

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  • Prov 23:15-16
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    84%

    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 15:20-21
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    79%

    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 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 23:19
    77%

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

  • Prov 23:24-26
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    76%

    24The father of the righteous shall greatly rejoice, and he who begets a wise child shall have joy of him.

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

  • Prov 3:11-12
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    11My son, do not despise the chastening of the LORD; nor be weary of his correction:

    12For whom the LORD loves he corrects; even as a father the son in whom he delights.

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

  • Prov 5:1
    75%

    1My son, attend to my wisdom, and incline your ear to my understanding:

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    8Now therefore, my son, obey my voice according to what I command you.

  • Prov 4:10
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    10Hear, O my son, and receive my sayings; and the years of your life will be many.

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

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

  • Prov 4:3
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    3For I was my father's son, tender and dearly loved in the sight of my mother.

  • Prov 27:12
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    12A prudent man foresees evil and hides himself, but the simple pass on and are punished.

  • Prov 27:10
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    10Do not forsake your own friend, nor your father's friend, and do not go into your brother's house in the day of your calamity; better is a neighbor nearby than a brother far away.

  • Prov 23:22
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    22Listen to your father who begot you, and do not despise your mother when she is old.

  • Prov 19:25-27
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    25Strike a scorner, and the simple will beware; and reprove one who has understanding, and he will understand knowledge.

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    27Cease, my son, to hear the instruction that causes to err from the words of knowledge.

  • Prov 28:7
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    7Whoever keeps the law is a wise son, but he who is a companion of riotous men shames his father.

  • Prov 17:2
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    2A wise servant will rule over a son who causes shame, and will share the inheritance among the brethren.

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

  • Prov 17:5-6
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    5Whoever mocks the poor reproaches his Maker, and he who is glad at calamity shall not go unpunished.

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

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    42So shall I have an answer for him who reproaches me, for I trust in Your word.

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    72%

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

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    20My son, pay attention to my words; incline your ear to my sayings.

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    20My son, keep your father's commandment, and do not forsake the law of your mother:

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    1My son, if you will receive my words and hide my commandments with you;

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    72%

    21My son, let them not depart from your eyes: keep sound wisdom and discretion:

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    71%

    1My son, keep my words and store up my commandments with you.

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    1My son, do not forget my law; but let your heart keep my commandments:

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    31The ear that hears the reproof of life abides among the wise.

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    9Rejoice, O young man, in your youth, and let your heart cheer you in the days of your youth; walk in the ways of your heart, and in the sight of your eyes — but know that for all these things God will bring you into judgment.

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    12And say, How have I hated instruction, and my heart despised reproof;

  • Ps 55:12
    71%

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