Proverbs 23:24
The father of a righteous man will greatly rejoice, and he who begets a wise son will have joy of him.
A Conservative Version
In The King James Version
In Context
23Buy the truth, and do not sell it, [yea], wisdom, and instruction, and understanding.
25Let thy father and thy mother be glad, and let her who bore thee rejoice.
Cross References
1 Kings 1:48And also thus said the king, Blessed be LORD, the God of Israel, who has given one of my seed to sit on my throne this day, my eyes even seeing it.
1 Kings 2:9Now therefore do not hold him guiltless, for thou are a wise man, and thou will know what thou ought to do to him, and thou shall bring his hoar head down to Sheol with blood.
Proverbs 15:20A wise son makes a glad father, but a foolish man despises his mother.
Proverbs 27:11My son, be wise, and make my heart glad, that I may answer him who reproaches me.
Ecclesiastes 2:19And who knows whether he will be a wise man or a fool? Yet he will have 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.
Philemon 1:20Yes, brother, let me have a favor of thee in Lord. Refresh my bowels in Lord.
Matthew Henry on Proverbs 23:20-29
19 Hear thou, my son, and be wise, and guide thine heart in the way. 20 Be not among winebibbers; among riotous eaters of flesh: 21 For the drunkard and the glutton shall come to poverty: and drowsiness shall clothe a man with rags. 22 Hearken unto thy father that begat thee, and despise not thy mother when she is old. 23 Buy the truth, and sell it not; also wisdom, and instruction, and understanding. 24 The father of the righteous shall greatly rejoice: and he that begetteth a wise child shall have joy of him. 25… Read the whole commentary →