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Proverbs 23:15-16
New Living Translation
Proverbs 23:15-16
New Living Translation
15 My child,[a] if your heart is wise,
my own heart will rejoice!
16 Everything in me will celebrate
when you speak what is right.
Proverbs 23:22
New Living Translation
Proverbs 23:22
New Living Translation
22 Listen to your father, who gave you life,
and don’t despise your mother when she is old.
Proverbs 23:24-25
New Living Translation
Proverbs 23:24-25
New Living Translation
24 The father of godly children has cause for joy.
What a pleasure to have children who are wise.[a]
25 So give your father and mother joy!
May she who gave you birth be happy.
Footnotes
- 23:24 Hebrew to have a wise son.
New Living Translation (NLT)
Holy Bible, New Living Translation, copyright © 1996, 2004, 2015 by Tyndale House Foundation. Used by permission of Tyndale House Publishers, Inc., Carol Stream, Illinois 60188. All rights reserved.
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