Proverbs 29:3

Contemporary English Version (Anglicised) 2012

If you love wisdom your parents will be glad, but chasing after bad women will cost you everything.

Cross References

Proverbs 10:1

Here are some proverbs of Solomon: Children with good sense make their parents happy, but foolish children make them sad.

Proverbs 15:20

Children with good sense make their parents happy, but foolish children are hateful to them.

Proverbs 21:17

Heavy drinkers and others who live only for pleasure will lose all they have.

Proverbs 21:20

Be sensible and store up precious treasures— don't waste them like a fool.

Proverbs 23:15

My children, if you show good sense, I will be happy,

Proverbs 27:11

My child, show good sense! Then I will be happy and able to answer anyone who criticizes me.

Proverbs 28:19

Work hard, and you will have a lot of food; waste time, and you will have a lot of trouble.

Proverbs 28:7

It makes good sense to obey the Law of God, but you disgrace your parents if you make friends with worthless nobodies.

Proverbs 6:26

A woman who sells her love can be bought for as little as the price of a meal. But making love to another man's wife will cost you everything.

Luke 15:13

Not long after that, the younger son packed up everything he owned and left for a foreign country, where he wasted all his money in wild living.

Luke 15:30

This other son of yours wasted your money on prostitutes. And now that he has come home, you ordered the best calf to be killed for a feast.”