Proverbs 28:7 - New Revised Standard Version Updated Edition 2021

⁷ Those who keep the law are wise children, but companions of gluttons shame their parents.

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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.

Proverbs 28:7 Cross References

Proverbs 29:3

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

Luke 15:13

A few days later the younger son gathered all he had and traveled to a distant region, and there he squandered his wealth in dissolute living.

Proverbs 29:15

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

Proverbs 28:24

Anyone who robs father or mother and says, “That is no crime,” is partner to a thug.

Proverbs 19:26

Those who do violence to their father and chase away their mother are children who cause shame and bring reproach.

Luke 15:30

But when this son of yours came back, who has devoured your assets with prostitutes, you killed the fatted calf for him!’