Proverbs 23:24
The father of the righteous has great joy. Whoever fathers a wise child delights in him.
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In Context
23Buy the truth, and don’t sell it. Get wisdom, discipline, and understanding.
25Let your father and your mother be glad! Let her who bore you rejoice!
Cross References
1 Kings 1:48Also thus said the king, ‘Blessed be the LORD, the God of Israel, who has given one to sit on my throne today, my eyes even seeing it.’”
1 Kings 2:9Now therefore don’t hold him guiltless, for you are a wise man; and you will know what you ought to do to him, and you shall bring his grey head down to Sheol with blood.”
Proverbs 15:20A wise son makes a father glad, but a foolish man despises his mother.
Proverbs 27:11Be wise, my son, and bring joy to my heart, then I can answer my tormentor.
Ecclesiastes 2:19Who knows whether he will be a wise man or a fool? Yet he will have rule over all of my labour in which I have laboured, and in which I have shown myself wise under the sun. This also is vanity.
Philemon 1:20Yes, brother, let me have joy from you in the Lord. Refresh my heart in the 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 →