And I will prepare an agreement between you and me. This agreement will also be for all your descendants. This agreement will continue forever. I will be your God and the God of all your descendants.
Proverbs 20:7 - Easy To Read Version A good person lives a good life. And his children will be blessed. 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. |
And I will prepare an agreement between you and me. This agreement will also be for all your descendants. This agreement will continue forever. I will be your God and the God of all your descendants.
There was a man named Job that lived in the country of Uz. Job was a good and faithful man. Job worshiped God and refused to do evil things.
His descendants {\cf2\super [579]} will be great on earth.\par The descendants of good people\par will be truly blessed.\par
Only a person who lives a pure life,\par and does good things,\par and speaks truth from the heart\par \{can live on your mountain\}.\par
Lord, judge me.\par Prove that I have lived a pure life.\par I never stopped trusting the Lord.\par
A good man gives freely to other people.\par And a good man’s children are a blessing.\par
A good person will have wealth to give to his children and grandchildren. And in the end, good people will get all the things that evil people have.
The person who lives right respects the Lord. But the person who is not honest hates the Lord.
The person who respects the Lord is safe and his children also live in safety.
It is better to be poor and honest than to be a fool that tells lies and cheats people.
Good, honest people that refuse to hurt others for money—\{they will live through that fire\}. Those people refuse to take bribes. They refuse to listen to plans to murder other people. They refuse to look at plans for doing bad things.
I will give those people the desire to be truly one people. They will have one goal—they will truly want to worship me all their lives. They will truly want to do this, and so will their children.
Zechariah and Elizabeth were truly good people before God. They did everything the Lord (God) commanded and told people to do. They were without fault.
This promise is for you. It is also for your children and for the people that are far away. It is for every person that the Lord our God calls to himself.”
This is what we are proud of, and I can say with all my heart that it is true: In all the things we have done in the world, we have done everything with an honest and pure heart from God. And this is even more true in the things we have done with you. We did this by God’s grace (kindness), not by the kind of wisdom the world has.