He who loves wisdom makes his father glad, but a companion of prostitutes squanders his wealth.
Be wise, my son, and make my heart glad, that I may answer him who reproaches me.
But when this son of yours came, who has devoured your property with prostitutes, you killed the fattened calf for him!’
A wise son makes a glad father, but a foolish man despises his mother.
The proverbs of Solomon. A wise son makes a glad father, but a foolish son is a sorrow to his mother.
Not many days later, the younger son gathered all he had and took a journey into a far country, and there he squandered his property in reckless living.
The one who keeps the law is a son with understanding, but a companion of gluttons shames his father.
for the price of a prostitute is only a loaf of bread, but a married woman hunts down a precious life.
Whoever loves pleasure will be a poor man; he who loves wine and oil will not be rich.
Keep your way far from her, and do not go near the door of her house, lest you give your honor to others and your years to the merciless, lest strangers take their fill of your strength, and your labors go to the house of a foreigner,
But the angel said to him, “Do not be afraid, Zechariah, for your prayer has been heard, and your wife Elizabeth will bear you a son, and you shall call his name John. And you will have joy and gladness, and many will rejoice at his birth, for he will be great before the Lord. And he must not drink wine or strong drink, and he will be filled with the Holy Spirit, even from his mother's womb. And he will turn many of the children of Israel to the Lord their God, and 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 make ready for the Lord a people prepared.”
Whoever works his land will have plenty of bread, but he who follows worthless pursuits will have plenty of poverty.
The father of the righteous will greatly rejoice; he who fathers a wise son will be glad in him. Let your father and mother be glad; let her who bore you rejoice.
My son, if your heart is wise, my heart too will be glad.
Precious treasure and oil are in a wise man's dwelling, but a foolish man devours it.
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