Proverbs 23:24 - New Revised Standard Version Updated Edition 2021

²⁴ The father of the righteous will greatly rejoice; he who fathers a wise son will be glad in him.

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King James Version (Oxford) 1769

²⁴ The father of the righteous shall greatly rejoice: And he that begetteth a wise child shall have joy of him.

Amplified Bible - Classic Edition

²⁴ The father of the [uncompromisingly] righteous (the upright, in right standing with God) shall greatly rejoice, and he who becomes the father of a wise child shall have joy in him.

American Standard Version (1901)

²⁴ The father of the righteous will greatly rejoice; And he that begetteth a wise child will have joy of him.

Common English Bible

²⁴ The father of the righteous will be very happy; the one who gives life to the wise will rejoice.

Catholic Public Domain Version

²⁴ The father of the just exults in gladness; he who has conceived the wise will rejoice in him.

Proverbs 23:24 Cross References

Proverbs 10:1

The proverbs of Solomon. A wise child makes a glad father, but a foolish child is a mother’s grief.

Proverbs 15:20

A wise child makes a glad father, but the foolish despise their mothers.

Proverbs 29:3

A child who loves wisdom makes a parent glad, but a companion of prostitutes destroys wealth.

Philemon 1:20

Yes, brother, let me have this benefit from you in the Lord! Refresh my heart in Christ.

Philemon 1:9

yet I would rather appeal to you on the basis of love—and I, Paul, do this as an old man and now also as a prisoner of Christ Jesus.

Ecclesiastes 2:19

and who knows whether he will be wise or foolish? Yet he will be master of all for which I toiled and used my wisdom under the sun. This also is vanity.

1 Kings 2:9

Therefore do not hold him guiltless, for you are a wise man; you will know what you ought to do to him, and you must bring his gray head down with blood to Sheol.”

1 Kings 1:48

and went on to pray thus, ‘Blessed be the Lord, the God of Israel, who today has granted one of my offspring to sit on my throne and permitted me to witness it.’ ”

Proverbs 27:11

Be wise, my child, and make my heart glad, so that I may answer whoever reproaches me.