Proverbs 29:21 - New Revised Standard Version Updated Edition 2021

A slave pampered from childhood will come to a bad end.

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King James Version (Oxford) 1769

He that delicately bringeth up his servant from a child Shall have him become his son at the length.

Amplified Bible - Classic Edition

He who pampers his servant from childhood will have him expecting the rights of a son afterward.

American Standard Version (1901)

He that delicately bringeth up his servant from a child Shall have him become a son at the last.

Common English Bible

Pamper servants from a young age, and later on there will be trouble.

Catholic Public Domain Version

Whoever nurtures his servant delicately from childhood, afterwards will find him defiant.

Douay-Rheims version of The Bible - 1752 version

He that nourisheth his servant delicately from his childhood, afterwards shall find him stubborn.

Proverbs 29:21 Cross References

Genesis 15:3

And Abram said, “You have given me no offspring, so a slave born in my house is to be my heir.”

Proverbs 29:15

The rod and reproof give wisdom, but a mother is disgraced by a neglected child.

Proverbs 29:20

Do you see someone who is hasty in speech? There is more hope for a fool than for anyone like that.

Proverbs 29:22

One given to anger stirs up strife, and the hothead causes much transgression.

Proverbs 30:23

a contemptible woman when she gets a husband and a maid when she supplants her mistress.

Luke 16:3

Then the manager said to himself, ‘What will I do, now that my master is taking the position away from me? I am not strong enough to dig, and I am ashamed to beg.

Luke 7:2

A centurion there had a slave whom he valued highly and who was ill and close to death.

1 Timothy 5:6

but the widow who lives for pleasure is dead even while she lives.