Proverbs 23:25

New Revised Standard Version Updated Edition 2021

Let your father and mother be glad; let her who bore you rejoice.

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

Foolish children are a grief to their father and bitterness to her who bore them.

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

My child, give me your heart, and let your eyes observe my ways.

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

Her neighbors and relatives heard that the Lord had shown his great mercy to her, and they rejoiced with her.