Proverbs 29:3

Bible in Basic English 1965

A man who is a lover of wisdom is a joy to his father: but he who goes in the company of loose women is a waster of wealth.

Cross References

Proverbs 10:1

A wise son makes a glad father, but a foolish son is a sorrow to his mother.

Proverbs 15:20

A wise son makes a glad father, but a foolish man has no respect for his mother.

Proverbs 21:17

The lover of pleasure will be a poor man: the lover of wine and oil will not get wealth.

Proverbs 21:20

There is a store of great value in the house of the wise, but it is wasted by the foolish man.

Proverbs 23:15

My son, if your heart becomes wise, I, even I, will be glad in heart;

Proverbs 27:11

My son, be wise and make my heart glad, so that I may give back an answer to him who puts me to shame.

Proverbs 28:19

By ploughing his land a man will have bread in full measure; but he who goes after good-for-nothing persons will be poor enough.

Proverbs 28:7

He who keeps the law is a wise son, but he who keeps company with feasters puts shame on his father.

Proverbs 6:26

For a loose woman is looking for a cake of bread, but another man's wife goes after one's very life.

Luke 15:13

And not long after, the younger son got together everything which was his and took a journey into a far-away country, and there all his money went in foolish living.

Luke 15:30

But when this your son came, who has been wasting your property with bad women, you put to death the fat young ox for him.