Proverbs 28:7 - King James Version with Apocrypha - American Edition

⁷ Whoso keepeth the law is a wise son: but he that is a companion of riotous men shameth his father.

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King James Version (Oxford) 1769

⁷ Whoso keepeth the law is a wise son: But he that is a companion of riotous men shameth his father.

Amplified Bible - Classic Edition

⁷ Whoever keeps the law [of God and man] is a wise son, but he who is a companion of gluttons and the carousing, self-indulgent, and extravagant shames his father.

American Standard Version (1901)

⁷ Whoso keepeth the law is a wise son; But he that is a companion of gluttons shameth his father.

Common English Bible

⁷ Intelligent children follow Instruction, but those who befriend gluttons shame their parents.

Catholic Public Domain Version

⁷ Whoever keeps the law is a wise son. But whoever feeds gluttons brings shame to his father.

Douay-Rheims version of The Bible - 1752 version

⁷ He that keepeth the law is a wise son: but he that feedeth gluttons, shameth his father.

Proverbs 28:7 Cross References

Proverbs 19:26

He that wasteth his father, and chaseth away his mother, is a son that causeth shame, and bringeth reproach.

Proverbs 28:24

Whoso robbeth his father or his mother, and saith, It is no transgression; the same is the companion of a destroyer.

Proverbs 29:15

The rod and reproof give wisdom: but a child left to himself bringeth his mother to shame.

Proverbs 29:3

Whoso loveth wisdom rejoiceth his father: but he that keepeth company with harlots spendeth his substance.

Luke 15:13

And not many days after the younger son gathered all together, and took his journey into a far country, and there wasted his substance with riotous living.

Luke 15:30

but as soon as this thy son was come, which hath devoured thy living with harlots, thou hast killed for him the fatted calf.