Proverbs 23:25

Proverbs 23:25
Let your father and your mother be glad! Let her who bore you rejoice!

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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 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 Chronicles 4:9
Jabez was more honorable than his brothers. His mother named him Jabez, saying, “Because I bore him with sorrow.”

1 Chronicles 4:10
Jabez called on the God of Israel, saying, “Oh that you would bless me indeed, and enlarge my border! May your hand be with me, and may you keep me from evil, that I may not cause pain!” God granted him that which he requested.

Luke 1:40
and entered into the house of Zacharias and greeted Elizabeth.

Luke 1:41
When Elizabeth heard Mary’s greeting, the baby leaped in her womb; and Elizabeth was filled with the Holy Spirit.

Luke 1:42
She called out with a loud voice and said, “Blessed are you among women, and blessed is the fruit of your womb!

Luke 1:43
Why am I so favored, that the mother of my Lord should come to me?

Luke 1:44
For behold, when the voice of your greeting came into my ears, the baby leaped in my womb for joy!

Luke 1:45
Blessed is she who believed, for there will be a fulfillment of the things which have been spoken to her from the Lord!”

Luke 1:46
Mary said, “My soul magnifies the Lord.

Luke 1:47
My spirit has rejoiced in God my Savior,

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

Luke 11:27
It came to pass, as he said these things, a certain woman out of the multitude lifted up her voice and said to him, “Blessed is the womb that bore you, and the breasts which nursed you!”

Luke 11:28
But he said, “On the contrary, blessed are those who hear the word of God, and keep it.”

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Proverbs 19:22
That which makes a man to be desired is his kindness. A poor man is better than a liar.

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

Proverbs 24:10
If you falter in the time of trouble, your strength is small.

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Proverbs 17:21
He who becomes the father of a fool grieves. The father of a fool has no joy.

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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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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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 1:14
You will have joy and gladness, and many will rejoice at his birth.

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 1:31
Behold, you will conceive in your womb and give birth to a son, and shall name him ‘Jesus.’

Luke 1:32
He will be great and will be called the Son of the Most High. The Lord God will give him the throne of his father David,

Luke 1:33
and he will reign over the house of Jacob forever. There will be no end to his Kingdom.”

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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,

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 1:19
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).

Philemon 1:20
Yes, brother, let me have joy from you in the Lord. Refresh my heart in the Lord.

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

3 John 1:4
I have no greater joy than this: to hear about my children walking in truth.

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