Proverbs 23:15
My son, if your heart becomes wise, I, even I, will be glad in heart;
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Proverbs 23:15
My son, if your heart becomes wise, I, even I, will be glad in heart;
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Genesis 21:6
And Sarah said, God has given me cause for laughing, and everyone who has news of it will be laughing with me.
Luke 1:13
But the angel said, Have no fear, Zacharias, for your prayer has come to the ears of God, and your wife Elisabeth will have a son, and his name will be John.
Luke 1:15
For he will be great in the eyes of the Lord; he will not take wine or strong drink; and he will be full of the Spirit of God from his birth.
Luke 1:16
And through him great numbers of the children of Israel will be turned to the Lord their God.
Luke 1:17
And he will go before his face in the spirit and power of Elijah, turning the hearts of fathers to their children, and wrongdoers to the way of righteousness; to make ready a people whose hearts have been turned to the Lord.
Luke 1:58
And it came to the ears of her neighbours and relations that the Lord had been very good to her, and they took part in her joy.
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Genesis 27:34
And hearing the words of his father, Esau gave a great and bitter cry, and said to his father, Give a blessing to me, even to me, O my father!
Psalms 9:7
But the Lord is King for ever: he has made ready his high seat for judging.
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Genesis 48:2
And when they said to Jacob, Your son Joseph is coming to see you: then Israel, getting all his strength together, had himself lifted up in his bed.
Deuteronomy 3:28
But give my orders to Joshua, comforting him and making him strong; for he is to go over Jordan at the head of this people, and he will give them this land which you will see for their heritage.
1 Samuel 23:16
And Saul's son Jonathan went to David in Horesh, and made his hands strong in God;
Nehemiah 2:18
Then I gave them an account of how the hand of my God was on me, helping me; and of the king's words which he had said to me. And they said, Let us get to work on the building. So they made their hands strong for the good work.
Psalms 41:3
The Lord will be his support on his bed of pain: by you will all his grief be turned to strength.
Ephesians 6:10
Lastly, be strong in the Lord, and in the strength of his power.
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Numbers 14:32
But as for you, your dead bodies will be stretched in this waste land.
1 Samuel 20:42
And Jonathan said to David, Go in peace, for we two have taken an oath, in the name of the Lord, saying, The Lord will be between me and you, and between my seed and your seed for ever. Then David went away, and Jonathan went into the town.
Ezekiel 34:11
For this is what the Lord has said: Truly, I, even I, will go searching and looking for my sheep.
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1 Kings 2:1
Now the time of David's death came near; and he gave orders to Solomon his son, saying,
1 Kings 2:2
I am going the way of all the earth: so be strong and be a man;
1 Kings 2:3
And keep the orders of the Lord your God, walking in his ways, keeping his laws and his orders and his rules and his words, as they are recorded in the law of Moses; so that you may do well in all you do and wherever you go,
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1 Kings 5:7
And these words of Solomon made Hiram glad, and he said, Now may the Lord be praised who has given to David a wise son to be king over this great people.
Philippians 2:22
But his quality is clear to you; how, as a child is to its father, so he was a help to me in the work of the good news.
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1 Kings 21:19
Say to him, The Lord says, Have you put a man to death and taken his heritage? Then say to him, The Lord says, In the place where dogs have been drinking the blood of Naboth, there will your blood become the drink of dogs.
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2 Chronicles 28:22
And in the time of his trouble, this same King Ahaz did even more evil against the Lord.
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Psalms 119:42
So that I may have an answer for the man who would put me to shame; for I have faith in your word.
Psalms 127:5
Happy is the man who has a good store of them; he will not be put to shame, but his cause will be supported by them against his haters.
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Proverbs 1:10
My son, if sinners would take you out of the right way, do not go with them.
Proverbs 2:1
My son, if you will take my words to your heart, storing up my laws in your mind;
Proverbs 4:1
Give ear, my sons, to the teaching of a father; give attention so that you may have knowledge:
Proverbs 19:27
A son who no longer gives attention to teaching is turned away from the words of knowledge.
Matthew 9:2
And they took to him a man stretched on a bed who had no power of moving; and Jesus, seeing their faith, said to the man who was ill, Son, take heart; you have forgiveness for your sins.
John 21:5
So Jesus said to them, Children, have you taken any fish? They made answer, No.
1 John 2:1
My little children, I am writing these things to you so that you may be without sin. And if any man is a sinner, we have a friend and helper with the Father, Jesus Christ, the upright one:
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1 Kings 3:12
I have done as you said: I have given you a wise and far-seeing heart, so that there has never been your equal in the past, and never will there be any like you in the future.
Proverbs 16:21
The wise-hearted will be named men of good sense: and by pleasing words learning is increased.
Proverbs 16:23
The heart of the wise man is the teacher of his mouth, and gives increased learning to his lips.
James 3:17
But the wisdom which is from heaven is first holy, then gentle, readily giving way in argument, full of peace and mercy and good works, not doubting, not seeming other than it is.
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Proverbs 17:25
A foolish son is a grief to his father, and bitter pain to her who gave him birth.
Proverbs 19:13
A foolish son is the destruction of his father; and the bitter arguments of a wife are like drops of rain falling without end.
Proverbs 23:13
Do not keep back training from the child: for even if you give him blows with the rod, it will not be death to him.
Proverbs 23:14
Give him blows with the rod, and keep his soul safe from the underworld.
Proverbs 29:15
The rod and sharp words give wisdom: but a child who is not guided is a cause of shame to his mother.
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Proverbs 22:17
Let your ear be bent down for hearing my words, and let your heart give thought to knowledge.
Proverbs 23:12
Give your heart to teaching, and your ears to the words of knowledge.
Proverbs 23:19
Give ear, my son, and be wise, guiding your heart in the right way.
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Psalms 17:3
You have put my heart to the test, searching me in the night; you have put me to the test and seen no evil purpose in me; I will keep my mouth from sin.
Proverbs 23:26
My son, give me your heart, and let your eyes take delight in my ways.
Proverbs 23:28
Yes, she is waiting secretly like a beast for its food, and deceit by her is increased among men.
Daniel 1:8
And Daniel had come to the decision that he would not make himself unclean with the king's food or wine; so he made a request to the captain of the unsexed servants that he might not make himself unclean.
Acts 11:23
Who, when he came and saw the grace of God, was glad; and he made clear to them the need of keeping near the Lord with all the strength of their hearts:
2 Corinthians 1:17
If then I had such a purpose, did I seem to be changing suddenly? or am I guided in my purposes by the flesh, saying, Yes, today, and, No, tomorrow?
2 Timothy 3:10
But you took as your example my teaching, behaviour, purpose, and faith; my long waiting, my love, my quiet undergoing of trouble;
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Ecclesiastes 2:18
Hate had I for all my work which I had done, because the man who comes after me will have its fruits.
Ecclesiastes 2:20
So my mind was turned to grief for all the trouble I had taken and all my wisdom under the sun.
Ecclesiastes 2:21
Because there is a man whose work has been done with wisdom, with knowledge, and with an expert hand; but one who has done nothing for it will have it for his heritage. This again is to no purpose and a great evil.
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Jeremiah 32:41
And truly, I will take pleasure in doing them good, and all my heart and soul will be given to planting them in this land in good faith.
Zephaniah 3:17
The Lord your God is among you, as a strong saviour: he will be glad over you with joy, he will make his love new again, he will make a song of joy over you as in the time of a holy feast.
Luke 15:5
And when he has got it again, he takes it in his arms with joy.
Luke 15:6
And when he gets back to his house, he sends for his neighbours and friends, saying to them, Be glad with me, for I have got back my sheep which had gone away.
Luke 15:7
I say to you that even so there will be more joy in heaven when one sinner is turned away from his wrongdoing, than for ninety-nine good men, who have no need of a change of heart.
Luke 15:23
And get the fat young ox and put it to death, and let us have a feast, and be glad.
Luke 15:24
For this, my son, who was dead, is living again; he had gone away from me, and has come back. And they were full of joy.
Luke 15:32
But it was right to be glad and to have a feast; for this your brother, who was dead, is living again; he had gone away and has come back.
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1 Chronicles 29:9
Then the people were glad because their offerings were freely given, for with a true heart they freely gave what they had to the Lord; and David the king was full of joy.
Romans 16:19
For all have knowledge of how you do what you are ordered. For this reason I have joy in you, but it is my desire that you may be wise in what is good, and without knowledge of evil.
2 Corinthians 2:3
And I said this very thing in my letter, for fear that when I came I might have sorrow from those from whom it was right for me to have joy; being certain of this, that my joy is the joy of you all.
Philippians 2:15
So that you may be holy and gentle, children of God without sin in a twisted and foolish generation, among whom you are seen as lights in the world,
Philippians 2:16
Offering the word of life; so that I may have glory in you in the day of Christ, because my running was not for nothing and my work was not without effect.
Philippians 2:17
And even if I am offered like a drink offering, giving myself for the cause and work of your faith, I am glad and have joy with you all:
Philippians 4:1
So my brothers, well loved and very dear to me, my joy and crown, be strong in the Lord, my loved ones.
Philippians 4:10
But I am very glad in the Lord that your care for me has come to life again; though you did in fact take thought for me, but you were not able to give effect to it.
1 Thessalonians 2:20
For you are our glory and our joy.
1 Thessalonians 3:6
But now that Timothy has come to us from you, and has given us good news of your faith and love, and that you have happy memories of us, desiring greatly to see us, even as we do to see you;
1 Thessalonians 3:7
For this cause, brothers, in all our trouble and grief we were comforted about you because of your faith;
Philemon 1:7
For I had great joy and comfort in your love, because the hearts of the saints have been made strong again through you, brother.
3 John 1:3
For it gave me great joy when some of the brothers came and gave witness that you had the true faith and were walking in the true way.
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