The father of the righteous will greatly rejoice; he who fathers a wise son will be glad in him.
The proverbs of Solomon. A wise son makes a glad father, but a foolish son is a sorrow to his mother.
He who loves wisdom makes his father glad, but a companion of prostitutes squanders his wealth.
A wise son makes a glad father, but a foolish man despises his mother.
My son, if your heart is wise, my heart too will be glad. My inmost being will exult when your lips speak what is right.
Yes, brother, I want some benefit from you in the Lord. Refresh my heart in Christ.
yet for love's sake I prefer to appeal to you—I, Paul, an old man and now a prisoner also for Christ Jesus—
and who knows whether he will be wise or a fool? Yet he will be master of all for which I toiled and used my wisdom under the sun. This also is vanity.
Now therefore do not hold him guiltless, for you are a wise man. You will know what you ought to do to him, and you shall bring his gray head down with blood to Sheol.”
When David's time to die drew near, he commanded Solomon his son, saying, “I am about to go the way of all the earth. Be strong, and show yourself a man, and keep the charge of the Lord your God, walking in his ways and keeping his statutes, his commandments, his rules, and his testimonies, as it is written in the Law of Moses, that you may prosper in all that you do and wherever you turn,
And the king also said, ‘Blessed be the Lord, the God of Israel, who has granted someone to sit on my throne this day, my own eyes seeing it.’”
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