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Proverbs 23:25
Let your father and your mother be glad, let her who gave you birth have joy.
Proverbs 23:25 · Bible in Basic English
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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 Give ear to your father whose child you are, and do not keep honour from your mother when she is old.
23 Get for yourself that which is true, and do not let it go for money; get wisdom and teaching and good sense.
24 The father of the upright man will be glad, and he who has a wise child will have joy because of him.
25 Let your father and your mother be glad, let her who gave you birth have joy.
26 My son, give me your heart, and let your eyes take delight in my ways.
27 For a loose woman is a deep hollow, and a strange woman is a narrow water-hole.
28 Yes, she is waiting secretly like a beast for its food, and deceit by her is increased among men.
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