Proverbs 29:21

New Revised Standard Version Catholic Interconfessional

A slave pampered from childhood will come to a bad end.

Cross References

Genesis 15:3

And Abram said, “You have given me no offspring, and so a slave born in my house is to be my heir.”

Proverbs 29:15

The rod and reproof give wisdom, but a mother is disgraced by a neglected child.

Proverbs 29:20

Do you see someone who is hasty in speech? There is more hope for a fool than for anyone like that.

Proverbs 29:22

One given to anger stirs up strife, and the hothead causes much transgression.

Proverbs 30:23

an unloved woman when she gets a husband, and a maid when she succeeds her mistress.

Luke 16:3

Then the manager said to himself, ‘What will I do, now that my master is taking the position away from me? I am not strong enough to dig, and I am ashamed to beg.

Luke 7:2

A centurion there had a slave whom he valued highly, and who was ill and close to death.

1 Timothy 5:6

but the widow who lives for pleasure is dead even while she lives.