Proverbs 16:31 - Revised Version with Apocrypha 1895

³¹ The hoary head is a crown of glory, It shall 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.

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

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

Proverbs 16:30

He that shutteth his eyes, it is to devise froward things: He that compresseth his lips 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.

Proverbs 17:6

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

Proverbs 20:29

The glory of young men is their strength: And the beauty of old men is the hoary head.

Ecclesiastes 12:5

yea, they shall be afraid of that which is high, and terrors shall be in the way; and the almond tree shall blossom, and the grasshopper shall be a burden, and the caper-berry shall fail: because man goeth to his long 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 knoweth not how to receive admonition any more.

Leviticus 19:32

Thou shalt rise up before the hoary head, and honour the face of the old man, and thou shalt fear thy 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 rather beseech, being such a one as Paul the aged, and now a prisoner also of Christ Jesus: