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Proverbs 23:25
Let thy father and thy mother be glad, And let her that bare thee rejoice.
Proverbs 23:25 · American Standard Version
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Proverbs 23:25 in other translations
Thy father and thy mother shall be glad, and she that bare thee shall rejoice.
May your father and mother be glad, and may she who gave you birth rejoice!
Let your father and your mother be glad! Let her who bore you rejoice!
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In context
22 Hearken unto thy father that begat thee, And despise not thy mother when she is old.
23 Buy the truth, and sell it not; Yea, wisdom, and instruction, and understanding.
24 The father of the righteous will greatly rejoice; And he that begetteth a wise child will have joy of him.
25 Let thy father and thy mother be glad, And let her that bare thee rejoice.
26 My son, give me thy heart; And let thine eyes delight in my ways.
27 For a harlot is a deep ditch; And a foreign woman is a narrow pit.
28 Yea, she lieth in wait as a robber, And increaseth the treacherous among men.
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