Proverbs 23:24

A Conservative Version

The father of a righteous man will greatly rejoice, and he who begets a wise son will have joy of him.

Cross References

Proverbs 10:1

The proverbs of Solomon. A wise son makes a glad father, but a foolish son is the heaviness of his mother.

Proverbs 15:20

A wise son makes a glad father, but a foolish man despises his mother.

Proverbs 29:3

He who loves wisdom delights his father, but he who keeps company with harlots wastes [his] substance.

Philemon 1:20

Yes, brother, let me have a favor of thee in Lord. Refresh my bowels in Lord.

Philemon 1:9

because of love I rather beseech, being such as aged Paul, and now also a prisoner of Jesus Christ.

Ecclesiastes 2:19

And who knows whether he will be a wise man or a fool? Yet he will have rule over all my labor in which I have labored, and in which I have shown myself wise under the sun. This also is vanity.

1 Kings 2:9

Now therefore do not hold him guiltless, for thou are a wise man, and thou will know what thou ought to do to him, and thou shall bring his hoar head down to Sheol with blood.

1 Kings 1:48

And also thus said the king, Blessed be LORD, the God of Israel, who has given one of my seed to sit on my throne this day, my eyes even seeing it.

Proverbs 27:11

My son, be wise, and make my heart glad, that I may answer him who reproaches me.