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New Century Version

Proverbs 20:7

The good people who live honest lives will be a blessing to their children.

Bible Study Resources

Concordances:

- Nave's Topical Bible - Children;   Instruction;   Integrity;   Thompson Chain Reference - Business Life;   Heredity;   Honesty;   Integrity;   Just, the;   Offspring;   Promises, Divine;   Righteous, the;   Righteous-Wicked;   Righteousness;   Seed of the Righteous;   Virtues;   The Topic Concordance - Blessings;   Justice;   Torrey's Topical Textbook - Blessed, the;  

Dictionaries:

- Bridgeway Bible Dictionary - Walk;   Charles Buck Theological Dictionary - Pardon;   Holman Bible Dictionary - Proverbs, Book of;  

Encyclopedias:

- International Standard Bible Encyclopedia - Integrity;  

Devotionals:

- Faith's Checkbook - Devotion for April 25;  

Parallel Translations

English Standard Version
The righteous who walks in his integrity— blessed are his children after him!
Geneva Bible (1587)
He that walketh in his integritie, is iust: and blessed shall his children be after him.
Christian Standard Bible®
A righteous person acts with integrity;his children who come after him will be happy.
Hebrew Names Version
A righteous man who walks in his integrity, Blessed are his children after him.
Easy-to-Read Version
When people live good, honest lives, their children are blessed.
Amplified Bible
The righteous man who walks in integrity and lives life in accord with his [godly] beliefs— How blessed [happy and spiritually secure] are his children after him [who have his example to follow].
American Standard Version
A righteous man that walketh in his integrity, Blessed are his children after him.
Contemporary English Version
Good people live right, and God blesses the children who follow their example.
Complete Jewish Bible
The righteous live a life of integrity; happy are their children after them.
JPS Old Testament (1917)
He that walketh in his integrity as a just man, happy are his children after him.
King James Version (1611)
The iust man walketh in his integritie: his children are blessed after him.
Brenton's Septuagint (LXX)
He that walks blameless in justice, shall leave his children blessed.
English Revised Version
A just man that walketh in his integrity, blessed are his children after him.
Berean Standard Bible
The righteous man walks with integrity; blessed are his children after him.
Lexham English Bible
He who walks in his integrity is righteous; happy are his children who follow him.
Literal Translation
The just one walks in his integrity, blessed are his sons after him!
New English Translation
The righteous person behaves in integrity; blessed are his children after him.
New King James Version
The righteous man walks in his integrity; His children are blessed after him.
New Living Translation
The godly walk with integrity; blessed are their children who follow them.
New Life Bible
How happy are the sons of a man who is right with God and walks in honor!
J.B. Rotherham Emphasized Bible
As for a righteous man, walking in his integrity, how happy are his children after him!
Douay-Rheims Bible
The just that walketh in his simplicity, shall leave behind him blessed children.
George Lamsa Translation
The just man walks in his integrity; blessed are his children after him.
Good News Translation
Children are fortunate if they have a father who is honest and does what is right.
New American Standard Bible
A righteous person who walks in his integrity— How blessed are his sons after him.
King James Version
The just man walketh in his integrity: his children are blessed after him.
Bishop's Bible (1568)
The chyldren of the iust man which walketh vprightly, shalbe blessed after hym.
New Revised Standard
The righteous walk in integrity— happy are the children who follow them!
Darby Translation
The righteous walketh in his integrity: blessed are his children after him!
Wycliffe Bible (1395)
Forsothe a iust man that goith in his simplenesse, schal leeue blessid sones aftir hym.
Young's Literal Translation
The righteous is walking habitually in his integrity, O the happiness of his sons after him!
World English Bible
A righteous man who walks in his integrity, Blessed are his children after him.
Revised Standard Version
A righteous man who walks in his integrity--blessed are his sons after him!
Update Bible Version
A righteous man that walks in his integrity, Blessed are his sons after him.
Webster's Bible Translation
The just [man] walketh in his integrity: his children [are] blessed after him.
Bible in Basic English
An upright man goes on in his righteousness: happy are his children after him!
Miles Coverdale Bible (1535)
Who so ledeth a godly and an innocent life, happie shal his children be, whom he leaueth behynde him.
THE MESSAGE
God-loyal people, living honest lives, make it much easier for their children.
New American Standard Bible (1995)
A righteous man who walks in his integrity— How blessed are his sons after him.
Legacy Standard Bible
A righteous man who walks in his integrity—How blessed are his sons after him.

Contextual Overview

7 The good people who live honest lives will be a blessing to their children.

Bible Verse Review
  from Treasury of Scripure Knowledge

just: Proverbs 14:2, Proverbs 19:1, Psalms 15:2, Psalms 26:1, Psalms 26:11, Isaiah 33:15, Luke 1:6, 2 Corinthians 1:12, Titus 2:11, Titus 2:12, 3 John 1:3, 3 John 1:4

his children: Proverbs 13:22, Genesis 17:7, Psalms 37:26, Psalms 112:2, Jeremiah 32:39, Acts 2:39

Reciprocal: Genesis 20:5 - in the integrity Deuteronomy 28:4 - General Joshua 11:6 - horses 1 Kings 9:4 - And if thou Ezra 9:12 - and leave it Psalms 25:13 - his seed Psalms 25:21 - General Isaiah 26:7 - way Acts 11:14 - all Philippians 4:8 - are just

Cross-References

Genesis 2:17
but you must not eat the fruit from the tree which gives the knowledge of good and evil. If you ever eat fruit from that tree, you will die!"
Genesis 12:15
The Egyptian officers saw her and told the king of Egypt how beautiful she was. They took her to the king's palace, and
Genesis 12:17
But the Lord sent terrible diseases on the king and all the people in his house because of Abram's wife Sarai.
Genesis 20:1
Abraham left Hebron and traveled to southern Canaan where he stayed awhile between Kadesh and Shur. When he moved to Gerar,
Genesis 20:2
he told people that his wife Sarah was his sister. Abimelech king of Gerar heard this, so he sent some servants to take her.
Genesis 20:3
But one night God spoke to Abimelech in a dream and said, "You will die. The woman you took is married."
Genesis 20:4
But Abimelech had not gone near Sarah, so he said, "Lord, would you destroy an innocent nation?
Genesis 20:5
Abraham himself told me, ‘This woman is my sister,' and she also said, ‘He is my brother.' I am innocent. I did not know I was doing anything wrong."
Genesis 20:6
Then God said to Abimelech in the dream, "Yes, I know you did not realize what you were doing. So I did not allow you to sin against me and touch her.
Genesis 20:9
Then Abimelech called Abraham to him and said, "What have you done to us? What wrong did I do against you? Why did you bring this trouble to my kingdom? You should not have done these things to me.

Gill's Notes on the Bible

The just [man] walketh in his integrity,.... This is the faithful and upright man, who is made righteous by the obedience of Christ; and walks by faith in him, and according to the truth of the Gospel;

his children [are] blessed after him; with temporal blessings; and, walking in the same integrity as he does, they are blessed with spiritual blessings here, and eternal blessedness hereafter; see

Psalms 37:26. It is an observation of an Heathen poet c, that good things befall the children of the godly, but not the children of the ungodly.

c Theoerit. Idyll. 27. v. 32.


 
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