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Proverbs 23:24
Proverbs 23:24 is verse 24 of Proverbs chapter 23, shown here in the Berean Standard Bible.
Berean Standard Bible
The father of a righteous man will greatly rejoice, and he who fathers a wise son will delight in him.
King James Version
The father of the righteous shall greatly rejoice: and he that begetteth a wise child shall have joy of him.
World English Bible
The father of the righteous has great joy. Whoever fathers a wise child delights in him.
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Proverbs 23:22–26 · Berean Standard Bible
22 Listen to your father who gave you life, and do not despise your mother when she is old.
23 Invest in truth and never sell it— in wisdom and instruction and understanding.
24 The father of a righteous man will greatly rejoice, and he who fathers a wise son will delight in him.
25 May your father and mother be glad, and may she who gave you birth rejoice!
26 My son, give me your heart, and let your eyes delight in my ways.
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Cross-references
The Treasury of Scripture Knowledge lists these related verses. Scripture text comes from the Berean Standard Bible.
Proverbs 23:15My son, if your heart is wise, my own heart will indeed rejoice.
Proverbs 23:16My inmost being will rejoice when your lips speak what is right.
Proverbs 10:1The proverbs of Solomon: A wise son brings joy to his father, but a foolish son grief to his mother.
Proverbs 15:20A wise son brings joy to his father, but a foolish man despises his mother.
1 Kings 1:48saying, ‘Blessed be the LORD, the God of Israel! Today He has provided one to sit on my throne, and my eyes have seen it.’”
1 Kings 2:1As the time drew near for David to die, he charged his son Solomon,
1 Kings 2:2“I am about to go the way of all the earth. So be strong and prove yourself a man.
1 Kings 2:3And keep the charge of the LORD your God to walk in His ways and to keep His statutes, commandments, ordinances, and decrees, as is written in the Law of Moses, so that you may prosper in all you do and wherever you turn,
1 Kings 2:9Now therefore, do not hold him guiltless, for you are a wise man. You know what you ought to do to him to bring his gray head down to Sheol in blood.”
Ecclesiastes 2:19And who knows whether that man will be wise or foolish? Yet he will take over all the labor at which I have worked skillfully under the sun. This too is futile.
Philemon 1:9I prefer to appeal on the basis of love. For I, Paul, am now aged, and a prisoner of Christ Jesus as well.
Philemon 1:20Yes, brother, let me have some benefit from you in the Lord. Refresh my heart in Christ.