The proverbs of Solomon. A wise son maketh a glad father: but a foolish son is the heaviness of his mother.
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Proverbs 17:21 · 12 connections
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A foolish son is the calamity of his father: and the contentions of a wife are a continual dropping.
And Esau was forty years old when he took to wife Judith the daughter of Beeri the Hittite, and Bashemath the daughter of Elon the Hittite:
And thou shalt see an enemy in my habitation, in all the wealth which God shall give Israel: and there shall not be an old man in thine house for ever. …
End of linked passage: 1 Samuel 2:35A wise son maketh a glad father: but a foolish man despiseth his mother.
A foolish son is a grief to his father, and bitterness to her that bare him.
My son, if thine heart be wise, my heart shall rejoice, even mine. …
End of linked passage: Proverbs 23:16And the king was much moved, and went up to the chamber over the gate, and wept: and as he went, thus he said, O my son Absalom, my son, my son Absalom! would God I had died for thee, O Absalom, my son, my son!
And I wrote this same unto you, lest, when I came, I should have sorrow from them of whom I ought to rejoice; having confidence in you all, that my joy is the joy of you all.
I Paul have written it with mine own hand, I will repay it: albeit I do not say to thee how thou owest unto me even thine own self besides. …
End of linked passage: Philemon 1:20I have no greater joy than to hear that my children walk in truth.
And his sons walked not in his ways, but turned aside after lucre, and took bribes, and perverted judgment.
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