Proverbs 17:21
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21 The one who fathers a fool gets trouble;
the parent of a fool has no joy.(A)
Proverbs 10:1
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Wise Sayings of Solomon
10 The proverbs of Solomon.
A wise child makes a glad father,
but a foolish child is a mother’s grief.(A)
Proverbs 19:13
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13 A stupid child is ruin to a father,
and a wife’s quarreling is a continual dripping of rain.(A)
Proverbs 23:15-16
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15 My child, if your heart is wise,
my heart also will be glad.
16 My soul will rejoice
when your lips speak what is right.
Proverbs 17:25
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25 Foolish children are a grief to their father
and bitterness to her who bore them.(A)
Proverbs 15:20
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20 A wise child makes a glad father,
but the foolish despise their mothers.(A)
1 Samuel 2:32-35
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32 No one in your family shall ever live to old age.(A) 33 The only one of you whom I shall not cut off from my altar shall be spared to weep out his[a] eyes and grieve his[b] heart; all the members of your household shall die by the sword.[c] 34 The fate of your two sons, Hophni and Phinehas, shall be the sign to you: both of them shall die on the same day.(B) 35 I will raise up for myself a faithful priest who shall do according to what is in my heart and in my mind. I will build him a sure house, and he shall go in and out before my anointed one forever.(C)
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Genesis 26:34
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Esau’s Hittite Wives
34 When Esau was forty years old, he married Judith daughter of Beeri the Hittite and Basemath daughter of Elon the Hittite,(A)
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3 John 4
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4 I have no greater joy than this, to hear that my children are walking in the truth.(A)
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Philemon 19-20
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19 I, Paul, am writing this with my own hand: I will repay it. I say nothing about your owing me even your own self. 20 Yes, brother, let me have this benefit from you in the Lord! Refresh my heart in Christ.[a]
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- 20 Other ancient authorities read in the Lord
2 Corinthians 2:3
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3 And I wrote as I did, so that when I came, I might not suffer grief from those who should have made me rejoice, for I am confident about all of you, that my joy would be the joy of all of you.(A)
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2 Samuel 18:33
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David Mourns for Absalom
33 [a]The king was deeply moved and went up to the chamber over the gate and wept, and as he went he said, “O my son Absalom, my son, my son Absalom! Would I had died instead of you, O Absalom, my son, my son!”(A)
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- 18.33 19.1 in Heb
1 Samuel 8:3
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3 Yet his sons did not follow in his ways but turned aside after gain; they took bribes and perverted justice.(A)
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