Proverbs 16:31 - King James Version with Apocrypha - American Edition

³¹ The hoary head is a crown of glory, if it be found in the way of righteousness.

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King James Version (Oxford) 1769

³¹ The hoary head is a crown of glory, If it be found in the way of righteousness.

Amplified Bible - Classic Edition

³¹ The hoary head is a crown of beauty and glory if it is found in the way of righteousness (moral and spiritual rectitude in every area and relation). [Prov. 20:29.]

American Standard Version (1901)

³¹ The hoary head is a crown of glory; It shall be found in the way of righteousness.

Common English Bible

³¹ Gray hair is a crown of glory; it is found on the path of righteousness.

Catholic Public Domain Version

³¹ Old age is a crown of dignity, when it is found in the ways of justice.

Proverbs 16:31 Cross References

Proverbs 20:29

The glory of young men is their strength: and the beauty of old men is the gray head.

Leviticus 19:32

Thou shalt rise up before the hoary head, and honor the face of the old man, and fear thy God: I am the Lord.

Philemon 1:9

yet for love's sake I rather beseech thee, being such a one as Paul the aged, and now also a prisoner of Jesus Christ.

Luke 1:6

And they were both righteous before God, walking in all the commandments and ordinances of the Lord blameless.

Ecclesiastes 4:13

Better is a poor and a wise child, than an old and foolish king, who will no more be admonished.

Proverbs 17:6

Children's children are the crown of old men; and the glory of children are their fathers.

Proverbs 16:30

He shutteth his eyes to devise froward things: moving his lips he bringeth evil to pass.

Proverbs 16:32

He that is slow to anger is better than the mighty; and he that ruleth his spirit than he that taketh a city.

Job 41:32

He maketh a path to shine after him; one would think the deep to be hoary.

Ecclesiastes 12:5

also when they shall be afraid of that which is high, and fears shall be in the way, and the almond tree shall flourish, and the grasshopper shall be a burden, and desire shall fail: because man goeth to his long home, and the mourners go about the streets: