I will confirm my covenant that is between me and you and your future offspring throughout their generations. It is a permanent covenant to be your God and the God of your offspring after you.
Proverbs 20:7 - Christian Standard Bible Anglicised A righteous person acts with integrity; his children who come after him will be happy. Tuilleadh leaganachaKing James Version (Oxford) 1769 The just man walketh in his integrity: His children are blessed after him. Amplified Bible - Classic Edition The righteous man walks in his integrity; blessed (happy, fortunate, enviable) are his children after him. American Standard Version (1901) A righteous man that walketh in his integrity, Blessed are his children after him. Common English Bible The righteous live with integrity; happy are their children who come after them. Catholic Public Domain Version The just who walks in his simplicity shall leave behind him blessed sons. Douay-Rheims version of The Bible - 1752 version The just that walketh in his simplicity, shall leave behind him blessed children. |
I will confirm my covenant that is between me and you and your future offspring throughout their generations. It is a permanent covenant to be your God and the God of your offspring after you.
There was a man in the country of Uz named Job. He was a man of complete integrity, who feared God and turned away from evil.
A good man leaves an inheritance to his grandchildren, but the sinner’s wealth is stored up for the righteous.
Whoever lives with integrity fears the Lord, but the one who is devious in his ways despises him.
In the fear of the Lord one has strong confidence and his children have a refuge.
Better a poor person who lives with integrity than someone who has deceitful lips and is a fool.
The one who lives righteously and speaks rightly, who refuses profit from extortion, whose hand never takes a bribe, who stops his ears from listening to murderous plots and shuts his eyes against evil schemes –
I will give them integrity of heart and action so that they will fear me always, for their good and for the good of their descendants after them.
Both were righteous in God’s sight, living blamelessly according to all the commands and requirements of the Lord.
For the promise is for you and for your children, and for all who are far off, as many as the Lord our God will call.’
Indeed, this is our boast: The testimony of our conscience is that we have conducted ourselves in the world, and especially towards you, with godly sincerity and purity, not by human wisdom but by God’s grace.