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Related Verses

Proverbs 10:1
The proverbs of Solomon. A wise son makes a glad father, but a foolish son is a sorrow to his mother.

Proverbs 15:20
A wise son makes a glad father, but a foolish man despises his mother.

Proverbs 27:11
Be wise, my son, and make my heart glad, that I may answer him who reproaches me.

Proverbs 28:7
The one who keeps the law is a son with understanding, but a companion of gluttons shames his father.

Proverbs 5:9–10
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,

Proverbs 6:26
for the price of a prostitute is only a loaf of bread, but a married woman hunts down a precious life.

Luke 15:13
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.

Luke 15:30
But when this son of yours came, who has devoured your property with prostitutes, you killed the fattened calf for him!’

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