Children's children are the crown of old men; and the glory of children are their fathers.


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Proverbs 20 29 The glory of young men is their strength: and the beauty of old men is the grey head.
Psalms 144 12 That our sons may be as plants grown up in their youth; that our daughters may be as corner stones, polished after the similitude of a palace:
Proverbs 13 22 A good man leaveth an inheritance to his children's children: and the wealth of the sinner is laid up for the just.
Psalms 17 14 From men which are thy hand, O LORD, from men of the world, which have their portion in this life, and whose belly thou fillest with thy hid treasure: they are full of children, and leave the rest of their substance to their babes.
Proverbs 27 24 For riches are not for ever: and doth the crown endure to every generation?
Psalms 127 4 As arrows are in the hand of a mighty man; so are children of the youth.
Ecclesiastes 4 13 Better is a poor and a wise child than an old and foolish king, who will no more be admonished.
Psalms 103 5 Who satisfieth thy mouth with good things; so that thy youth is renewed like the eagle's.
Exodus 23 26 There shall nothing cast their young, nor be barren, in thy land: the number of thy days I will fulfil.
Genesis 42 11 We are all one man's sons; we are true men, thy servants are no spies.
Jeremiah 31 29 In those days they shall say no more, The fathers have eaten a sour grape, and the children's teeth are set on edge.
Ezra 9 12 Now therefore give not your daughters unto their sons, neither take their daughters unto your sons, nor seek their peace or their wealth for ever: that ye may be strong, and eat the good of the land, and leave it for an inheritance to your children for ever.
Ecclesiastes 6 3 If a man beget an hundred children, and live many years, so that the days of his years be many, and his soul be not filled with good, and also that he have no burial; I say, that an untimely birth is better than he.
Jeremiah 49 11 Leave thy fatherless children, I will preserve them alive; and let thy widows trust in me.
Isaiah 3 12 As for my people, children are their oppressors, and women rule over them. O my people, they which lead thee cause thee to err, and destroy the way of thy paths.
Ecclesiastes 7 11 Wisdom is good with an inheritance: and by it there is profit to them that see the sun.
Psalms 45 16 Instead of thy fathers shall be thy children, whom thou mayest make princes in all the earth.
Galatians 4 19 My little children, of whom I travail in birth again until Christ be formed in you,
1 Corinthians 14 20 Brethren, be not children in understanding: howbeit in malice be ye children, but in understanding be men.
Matthew 5 45 That ye may be the children of your Father which is in heaven: for he maketh his sun to rise on the evil and on the good, and sendeth rain on the just and on the unjust.
Deuteronomy 4 9 Only take heed to thyself, and keep thy soul diligently, lest thou forget the things which thine eyes have seen, and lest they depart from thy heart all the days of thy life: but teach them thy sons, and thy sons' sons;
Proverbs 8 32 Now therefore hearken unto me, O ye children: for blessed are they that keep my ways.
Proverbs 29 23 A man's pride shall bring him low: but honour shall uphold the humble in spirit.
Isaiah 65 23 They shall not labour in vain, nor bring forth for trouble; for they are the seed of the blessed of the LORD, and their offspring with them.
Nehemiah 9 23 Their children also multipliedst thou as the stars of heaven, and broughtest them into the land, concerning which thou hadst promised to their fathers, that they should go in to possess it.
Proverbs 22 6 Train up a child in the way he should go: and when he is old, he will not depart from it.
1 Corinthians 13 11 When I was a child, I spake as a child, I understood as a child, I thought as a child: but when I became a man, I put away childish things.
Exodus 20 12 Honour thy father and thy mother: that thy days may be long upon the land which the LORD thy God giveth thee.
2 Kings 17 41 So these nations feared the LORD, and served their graven images, both their children, and their children's children: as did their fathers, so do they unto this day.
Ecclesiastes 11 10 Therefore remove sorrow from thy heart, and put away evil from thy flesh: for childhood and youth are vanity.
Deuteronomy 11 19 And ye shall teach them your children, speaking of them when thou sittest in thine house, and when thou walkest by the way, when thou liest down, and when thou risest up.
Proverbs 4 10 Hear, O my son, and receive my sayings; and the years of thy life shall be many.
Romans 8 17 And if children, then heirs; heirs of God, and joint-heirs with Christ; if so be that we suffer with him, that we may be also glorified together.
Ezekiel 24 25 Also, thou son of man, shall it not be in the day when I take from them their strength, the joy of their glory, the desire of their eyes, and that whereupon they set their minds, their sons and their daughters,
John 10 29 My Father, which gave them me, is greater than all; and no man is able to pluck them out of my Father's hand.
Hosea 9 12 Though they bring up their children, yet will I bereave them, that there shall not be a man left: yea, woe also to them when I depart from them!
Proverbs 14 28 In the multitude of people is the king's honour: but in the want of people is the destruction of the prince.
Daniel 1 4 Children in whom was no blemish, but well favoured, and skilful in all wisdom, and cunning in knowledge, and understanding science, and such as had ability in them to stand in the king's palace, and whom they might teach the learning and the tongue of the Chaldeans.
Psalms 61 6 Thou wilt prolong the king's life: and his years as many generations.
Psalms 132 12 If thy children will keep my covenant and my testimony that I shall teach them, their children shall also sit upon thy throne for evermore.
Proverbs 10 1 The proverbs of Solomon. A wise son maketh a glad father: but a foolish son is the heaviness of his mother.
Deuteronomy 5 16 Honour thy father and thy mother, as the LORD thy God hath commanded thee; that thy days may be prolonged, and that it may go well with thee, in the land which the LORD thy God giveth thee.
1 Corinthians 10 24 Let no man seek his own, but every man another's wealth.
Job 39 4 Their young ones are in good liking, they grow up with corn; they go forth, and return not unto them.
Ephesians 6 4 And, ye fathers, provoke not your children to wrath: but bring them up in the nurture and admonition of the Lord.
1 John 2 13 I write unto you, fathers, because ye have known him that is from the beginning. I write unto you, young men, because ye have overcome the wicked one. I write unto you, little children, because ye have known the Father.
Genesis 31 16 For all the riches which God hath taken from our father, that is ours, and our children's: now then, whatsoever God hath said unto thee, do.
2 Corinthians 6 13 Now for a recompence in the same, I speak as unto my children, be ye also enlarged.
Job 14 21 His sons come to honour, and he knoweth it not; and they are brought low, but he perceiveth it not of them.
Psalms 103 17 But the mercy of the LORD is from everlasting to everlasting upon them that fear him, and his righteousness unto children's children;