Proverbs 23:24

Proverbs 23:24
The father of the righteous has great joy. Whoever fathers a wise child delights in him.

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Genesis 21:6
Sarah said, “God has made me laugh. Everyone who hears will laugh with me.”

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Genesis 22:24
His concubine, whose name was Reumah, also bore Tebah, Gaham, Tahash, and Maacah.

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Genesis 47:11
Joseph placed his father and his brothers, and gave them a possession in the land of Egypt, in the best of the land, in the land of Rameses, as Pharaoh had commanded.

Exodus 20:12
“Honor your father and your mother, that your days may be long in the land which Yahweh your God gives you.

Deuteronomy 5:16
“Honor your father and your mother, as Yahweh your God commanded you, that your days may be long and that it may go well with you in the land which Yahweh your God gives you.

1 Samuel 22:3
David went from there to Mizpeh of Moab; and he said to the king of Moab, “Please let my father and my mother come out to you, until I know what God will do for me.”

Matthew 19:19
‘Honor your father and your mother.’ And, ‘You shall love your neighbor as yourself.’ ”

Ephesians 6:2
“Honor your father and mother,” which is the first commandment with a promise:

1 Timothy 5:4
But if any widow has children or grandchildren, let them learn first to show piety toward their own family and to repay their parents, for this is acceptable in the sight of God.

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Genesis 50:9
Both chariots and horsemen went up with him. It was a very great company.

Proverbs 30:28
You can catch a lizard with your hands, yet it is in kings’ palaces.

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Numbers 23:3
Balaam said to Balak, “Stand by your burnt offering, and I will go. Perhaps Yahweh will come to meet me. Whatever he shows me I will tell you.” He went to a bare height.

2 Samuel 14:10
The king said, “Whoever says anything to you, bring him to me, and he will not bother you any more.”

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Deuteronomy 21:18
If a man has a stubborn and rebellious son who will not obey the voice of his father or the voice of his mother, and though they chasten him, will not listen to them,

Deuteronomy 21:19
then his father and his mother shall take hold of him and bring him out to the elders of his city and to the gate of his place.

Deuteronomy 21:20
They shall tell the elders of his city, “This our son is stubborn and rebellious. He will not obey our voice. He is a glutton and a drunkard.”

Deuteronomy 21:21
All the men of his city shall stone him to death with stones. So you shall remove the evil from among you. All Israel shall hear, and fear.

Proverbs 23:1
When you sit to eat with a ruler, consider diligently what is before you;

Proverbs 30:11
There is a generation that curses their father, and doesn’t bless their mother.

Proverbs 30:17
“The eye that mocks at his father, and scorns obedience to his mother, the ravens of the valley shall pick it out, the young eagles shall eat it.

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1 Kings 1:48
Also thus said the king, ‘Blessed be Yahweh, the God of Israel, who has given one to sit on my throne today, my eyes even seeing it.’ ”

1 Kings 2:1
Now the days of David came near that he should die; and he commanded Solomon his son, saying,

1 Kings 2:2
“I am going the way of all the earth. You be strong therefore, and show yourself a man;

1 Kings 2:3
and keep the instruction of Yahweh your God, to walk in his ways, to keep his statutes, his commandments, his ordinances, and his testimonies, according to that which is written in the law of Moses, that you may prosper in all that you do and wherever you turn yourself.

1 Kings 2:9
Now therefore don’t hold him guiltless, for you are a wise man; and you will know what you ought to do to him, and you shall bring his gray head down to Sheol with blood.”

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1 Kings 3:9
Give your servant therefore an understanding heart to judge your people, that I may discern between good and evil; for who is able to judge this great people of yours?”

1 Kings 5:7
When Hiram heard the words of Solomon, he rejoiced greatly, and said, “Blessed is Yahweh today, who has given to David a wise son to rule over this great people.”

2 Chronicles 2:11
Then Huram the king of Tyre answered in writing, which he sent to Solomon, “Because Yahweh loves his people, he has made you king over them.”

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Job 3:22
who rejoice exceedingly, and are glad, when they can find the grave?

Psalms 43:4
Then I will go to the altar of God, to God, my exceeding joy. I will praise you on the harp, God, my God.

Psalms 45:15
With gladness and rejoicing they shall be led. They shall enter into the king’s palace.

Psalms 65:12
The wilderness grasslands overflow. The hills are clothed with gladness.

Isaiah 16:10
Gladness is taken away, and joy out of the fruitful field; and in the vineyards there will be no singing, neither joyful noise. Nobody will tread out wine in the presses. I have made the shouting stop.

Isaiah 35:2
It will blossom abundantly, and rejoice even with joy and singing. Lebanon’s glory will be given to it, the excellence of Carmel and Sharon. They will see Yahweh’s glory, the excellence of our God.

Isaiah 65:18
But be glad and rejoice forever in that which I create; for, behold, I create Jerusalem to be a delight, and her people a joy.

Jeremiah 48:33
Gladness and joy is taken away from the fruitful field and from the land of Moab. I have caused wine to cease from the wine presses. No one will tread with shouting. The shouting will be no shouting.

Daniel 1:10
The prince of the eunuchs said to Daniel, “I fear my lord the king, who has appointed your food and your drink. For why should he see your faces worse looking than the youths who are of your own age? Then you would endanger my head with the king.”

Hosea 9:1
Don’t rejoice, Israel, to jubilation like the nations; for you were unfaithful to your God. You love the wages of a prostitute at every grain threshing floor.

Joel 1:16
Isn’t the food cut off before our eyes, joy and gladness from the house of our God?

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Psalms 119:42
So I will have an answer for him who reproaches me, for I trust in your word.

Psalms 127:5
Happy is the man who has his quiver full of them. They won’t be disappointed when they speak with their enemies in the gate.

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Proverbs 1:6
to understand a proverb and parables, the words and riddles of the wise.

Proverbs 22:21
To teach you truth, reliable words, to give sound answers to the ones who sent you?

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Proverbs 13:1
A wise son listens to his father’s instruction, but a scoffer doesn’t listen to rebuke.

Proverbs 13:20
One who walks with wise men grows wise, but a companion of fools suffers harm.

Proverbs 15:12
A scoffer doesn’t love to be reproved; he will not go to the wise.

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Proverbs 19:13
A foolish son is the calamity of his father. A wife’s quarrels are a continual dripping.

Proverbs 19:26
He who robs his father and drives away his mother is a son who causes shame and brings reproach.

Proverbs 28:14
Blessed is the man who always fears; but one who hardens his heart falls into trouble.

Proverbs 29:15
The rod of correction gives wisdom, but a child left to himself causes shame to his mother.

Luke 15:12
The younger of them said to his father, ‘Father, give me my share of your property.’ So he divided his livelihood between them.

Luke 15:13
Not many days after, the younger son gathered all of this together and traveled into a far country. There he wasted his property with riotous living.

Luke 15:14
When he had spent all of it, there arose a severe famine in that country, and he began to be in need.

Luke 15:15
He went and joined himself to one of the citizens of that country, and he sent him into his fields to feed pigs.

Luke 15:16
He wanted to fill his belly with the pods that the pigs ate, but no one gave him any.

Luke 15:30
But when this your son came, who has devoured your living with prostitutes, you killed the fattened calf for him.’

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Proverbs 22:17
Turn your ear, and listen to the words of the wise. Apply your heart to my teaching.

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Proverbs 23:26
My son, give me your heart; and let your eyes keep in my ways.

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Ecclesiastes 2:18
I hated all my labor in which I labored under the sun, because I must leave it to the man who comes after me.

Ecclesiastes 2:20
Therefore I began to cause my heart to despair concerning all the labor in which I had labored under the sun.

Ecclesiastes 2:21
For there is a man whose labor is with wisdom, with knowledge, and with skillfulness; yet he shall leave it for his portion to a man who has not labored for it. This also is vanity and a great evil.

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Isaiah 56:6
Also the foreigners who join themselves to Yahweh to serve him, and to love Yahweh’s name, to be his servants, everyone who keeps the Sabbath from profaning it, and holds fast my covenant,

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Ezekiel 18:10
“If he fathers a son who is a robber who sheds blood, and who does any one of these things,

Ezekiel 18:14
“Now, behold, if he fathers a son who sees all his father’s sins which he has done, and fears, and doesn’t do likewise,

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Habakkuk 2:5
Yes, moreover, wine is treacherous: an arrogant man who doesn’t stay at home, who enlarges his desire as Sheol; he is like death and can’t be satisfied, but gathers to himself all nations and heaps to himself all peoples.

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Luke 1:13
But the angel said to him, “Don’t be afraid, Zacharias, because your request has been heard. Your wife, Elizabeth, will bear you a son, and you shall call his name John.

Luke 1:15
For he will be great in the sight of the Lord, and he will drink no wine nor strong drink. He will be filled with the Holy Spirit, even from his mother’s womb.

Luke 1:16
He will turn many of the children of Israel to the Lord their God.

Luke 1:17
He will go before him in the spirit and power of Elijah, ‘to turn the hearts of the fathers to the children,’ and the disobedient to the wisdom of the just; to prepare a people prepared for the Lord.”

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Luke 1:58
Her neighbors and her relatives heard that the Lord had magnified his mercy toward her, and they rejoiced with her.

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1 Thessalonians 2:19
For what is our hope, or joy, or crown of rejoicing? Isn’t it even you, before our Lord Jesus at his coming?

1 Thessalonians 2:20
For you are our glory and our joy.

1 Thessalonians 3:8
For now we live, if you stand fast in the Lord.

1 Thessalonians 3:9
For what thanksgiving can we render again to God for you, for all the joy with which we rejoice for your sakes before our God,

3 John 1:3
For I rejoiced greatly when brothers came and testified about your truth, even as you walk in truth.

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Philemon 1:7
For we have much joy and comfort in your love, because the hearts of the saints have been refreshed through you, brother.

Philemon 1:9
yet for love’s sake I rather appeal to you, being such a one as Paul, the aged, but also a prisoner of Jesus Christ.

Philemon 1:19
I, Paul, write this with my own hand: I will repay it (not to mention to you that you owe to me even your own self besides).

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