Proverbs 23:15

New Revised Standard Version Updated Edition 2021

My child, if your heart is wise, my heart also will be glad.

Cross References

Proverbs 1:10

My child, if sinners entice you, do not consent.

Proverbs 10:1

The proverbs of Solomon. A wise child makes a glad father, but a foolish child is a mother’s grief.

Proverbs 15:20

A wise child makes a glad father, but the foolish despise their mothers.

Proverbs 2:1

My child, if you accept my words and treasure up my commandments within you,

Proverbs 27:11

Be wise, my child, and make my heart glad, so that I may answer whoever reproaches me.

Proverbs 29:3

A child who loves wisdom makes a parent glad, but a companion of prostitutes destroys wealth.

Proverbs 4:1

Listen, children, to a father’s instruction, and be attentive, that you may gain insight,

Jeremiah 32:41

I will rejoice in doing good to them, and I will plant them in this land in faithfulness, with all my heart and all my soul.

Zephaniah 3:17

The Lord, your God, is in your midst, a warrior who gives victory; he will rejoice over you with gladness; he will renew you in his love; he will exult over you with loud singing

Matthew 9:2

And some people were carrying to him a paralyzed man lying on a stretcher. When Jesus saw their faith, he said to the paralytic, “Take heart, child; your sins are forgiven.”

Luke 15:32

But we had to celebrate and rejoice, because this brother of yours was dead and has come to life; he was lost and has been found.’ ”

John 15:11

I have said these things to you so that my joy may be in you and that your joy may be complete.

John 21:5

Jesus said to them, “Children, you have no fish, have you?” They answered him, “No.”

1 John 2:1

My little children, I am writing these things to you so that you may not sin. But if anyone does sin, we have an advocate with the Father, Jesus Christ the righteous,

2 John 1:4

I was overjoyed to find some of your children walking in the truth, just as we have been commanded by the Father.