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Proverbs 4:9

New Century Version

It will be like flowers in your hair and like a beautiful crown on your head.”

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I will also give you what you did not ask for: riches and honor. During your life no other king will be as great as you.

Their teaching will be like flowers in your hair or a necklace around your neck.

Fools are rewarded with nothing but more foolishness, but the wise are rewarded with knowledge.

Gray hair is like a crown of honor; it is earned by living a good life.

They will give you life and beauty like a necklace around your neck.

My child, listen and accept what I say. Then you will have a long life.

At that time the Lord All-Powerful will be like a beautiful crown, like a wonderful crown of flowers for his people who are left alive.

No, your beauty should come from within you—the beauty of a gentle and quiet spirit that will never be destroyed and is very precious to God.

Then when Christ, the Chief Shepherd, comes, you will get a glorious crown that will never lose its beauty.

“Those who win the victory will sit with me on my throne in the same way that I won the victory and sat down with my Father on his throne.