Proverbs 29:21

KJV1611 – Modern English

He who delicately brings up his servant from childhood shall have him as a son in the end.

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

  • 76%

    19A servant will not be corrected by words; for though he understands, he will not respond.

    20Do you see a man hasty in his words? There is more hope for a fool than for him.

  • Prov 22:6-7
    2 verses
    74%

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

    7The rich rules over the poor, and the borrower is servant to the lender.

  • 22An angry man stirs up strife, and a furious man abounds in transgression.

  • 29He who troubles his own house shall inherit the wind, and the fool shall be servant to the wise of heart.

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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,

    19Then shall his father and his mother take hold of him, and bring him out to the elders of his city and to the gate of his place;

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

  • 20And if a man strikes his servant or his maid with a rod, and he dies under his hand, he shall surely be punished.

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

    19A man of great wrath shall suffer punishment; for if you deliver him, yet you must do it again.

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

  • 10Delight is not fitting for a fool; much less for a servant to rule over princes.

  • 21His sons come to honor, and he does not know it; and they are brought low, but he does not perceive it of them.

  • 44Truly I say to you, that he will make him ruler over all that he has.

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

  • 21An inheritance may be gained hastily at the beginning, but its end shall not be blessed.

  • 22For a servant when he reigns, and a fool when he is filled with food;

  • 18Whoever keeps the fig tree shall eat its fruit; so he who waits on his master shall be honored.

  • 37But last of all, he sent his son to them, saying, They will respect my son.

  • 47Truly I say to you that he will make him ruler over all his goods.

  • 53And as a yearly hired servant shall he be with him: and the other shall not rule with rigor over him in your sight.

  • 1He who is often reproved and hardens his neck shall suddenly be destroyed, and that without remedy.

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

  • Exod 21:4-7
    4 verses
    70%

    4If his master has given him a wife, and she has borne him sons or daughters, the wife and her children shall be her master's, and he shall go out by himself.

    5And if the servant plainly says, 'I love my master, my wife, and my children; I will not go out free,'

    6then his master shall bring him to the judges. He shall also bring him to the door, or to the doorpost, and his master shall pierce his ear with an awl; and he shall serve him forever.

    7And if a man sells his daughter to be a maidservant, she shall not go out as the menservants do.

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

  • 1Now I say, that the heir, as long as he is a child, is no different from a servant, though he is lord of all;

  • 29Do you see a man diligent in his business? He shall stand before kings; he shall not stand before obscure men.

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

  • 35The king's favor is toward a wise servant, but his wrath is against him who causes shame.

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

  • 21Also, do not take to heart everything people say, lest you hear your servant curse you.

  • 10Do not accuse a servant to his master, lest he curse you, and you be found guilty.

  • 9He who is despised and has a servant is better than he who honors himself and lacks bread.

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

  • 41And then he shall depart from you, both he and his children with him, and shall return to his own family, and to the possession of his fathers shall he return.

  • Luke 17:7-8
    2 verses
    69%

    7But which of you, having a servant plowing or feeding cattle, will say to him immediately when he comes in from the field, Go and sit down to eat?

    8Will he not rather say to him, Prepare my meal, and put on your apron and serve me while I eat and drink; and afterward you shall eat and drink?

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

  • 14You shall beat him with the rod, and deliver his soul from hell.

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

  • 23He who rebukes a man afterward shall find more favor than he who flatters with the tongue.

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

  • 26If a man strikes the eye of his servant or the eye of his maid so that it is destroyed, he shall let him go free for his eye's sake.

  • 17Then you shall take an awl, and pierce it through his ear to the door, and he shall be your servant forever. And also unto your maidservant, you shall do likewise.