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Proverbs 23:25 KJV
Proverbs · chapter 23 · verse 25
Thy father and thy mother shall be glad, and she that bare thee shall rejoice.Proverbs 23:25 · King James Version
Proverbs 23:25 in context
23Buy the truth, and sell it not; also wisdom, and instruction, and understanding.
24The father of the righteous shall greatly rejoice: and he that begetteth a wise child shall have joy of him.
25Thy father and thy mother shall be glad, and she that bare thee shall rejoice.
26My son, give me thine heart, and let thine eyes observe my ways.
27For a whore is a deep ditch; and a strange woman is a narrow pit.
Commentary
Key words (Strong's)
- fatherʼâbfather, in a literal and immediate, or figurative and remote applicationH1 →
- motherʼêma motherH517 →
- gladsâmachprobably to brighten upH8055 →
- bareyâladto bear youngH3205 →
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Here is good advice for parents to give to their children; words are put into their mouths, that they may train them up in the way they should go. Here we have, I.
— Matthew Henry's Concise Commentary on verses 19-28