Proverbs 16:31 - Revised Standard Version (RSV-CI)

³¹ A hoary head is a crown of glory; it is gained in a righteous life.

More versions

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.

Douay-Rheims version of The Bible - 1752 version

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

Proverbs 16:31 Cross References

Job 41:32

Behind him he leaves a shining wake; one would think the deep to be hoary.

Proverbs 16:30

He who winks his eyes plans perverse things, he who compresses his lips brings evil to pass.

Proverbs 16:32

He who is slow to anger is better than the mighty, and he who rules his spirit than he who takes a city.

Proverbs 17:6

Grandchildren are the crown of the aged, and the glory of sons is their fathers.

Proverbs 20:29

The glory of young men is their strength, but the beauty of old men is their gray hair.

Ecclesiastes 12:5

they are afraid also of what is high, and terrors are in the way; the almond tree blossoms, the grasshopper drags itself along and desire fails; because man goes to his eternal home, and the mourners go about the streets;

Ecclesiastes 4:13

Better is a poor and wise youth than an old and foolish king, who will no longer take advice,

Leviticus 19:32

“You shall rise up before the hoary head, and honor the face of an old man, and you shall fear your God: I am the Lord.

Luke 1:6

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

Philemon 1:9

yet for love's sake I prefer to appeal to you—I, Paul, an ambassador and now a prisoner also for Christ Jesus —