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New Living Translation

Proverbs 16:31

Gray hair is a crown of glory; it is gained by living a godly life.

Bible Study Resources

Concordances:

- Nave's Topical Bible - Old Age;   Thompson Chain Reference - Crowns;   Decrepitude;   Gray Hairs;   Hairs, Gray;   Long Life;   Old Age;   Torrey's Topical Textbook - Hair, the;   Righteousness;  

Dictionaries:

- Baker Evangelical Dictionary of Biblical Theology - Age, Old (the Aged);   Crown;   Glory;   Head, Headship;   Charles Buck Theological Dictionary - Pardon;   Holman Bible Dictionary - Crown;   Head;   Proverbs, Book of;   Hastings' Dictionary of the Bible - Crown;   Hair;   Peter, Second Epistle of;   Morrish Bible Dictionary - Glory;   People's Dictionary of the Bible - Crown;   Hair;   Smith Bible Dictionary - Age, Old;   Wilson's Dictionary of Bible Types - Crown;  

Encyclopedias:

- International Standard Bible Encyclopedia - Color;   Crown;   Hair;   Wisdom;   The Jewish Encyclopedia - Age, Old;   Crown;   Homiletics;  

Devotionals:

- Chip Shots from the Ruff of Life - Devotion for February 18;  

Parallel Translations

Legacy Standard Bible
Gray hair is a crown of beauty;It is found in the way of righteousness.
New American Standard Bible (1995)
A gray head is a crown of glory; It is found in the way of righteousness.
Bishop's Bible (1568)
Age is a crowne of worshyp, yf it be founde in the way of ryghteousnesse.
Darby Translation
The hoary head is a crown of glory, [if] it is found in the way of righteousness.
New King James Version
The silver-haired head is a crown of glory, If it is found in the way of righteousness.
Literal Translation
The gray head is a crown of glory; it is found in the way of righteousness.
Easy-to-Read Version
Gray hair is a crown of glory on people who have lived good lives. It is earned by living right.
World English Bible
Gray hair is a crown of glory. It is attained by a life of righteousness.
King James Version (1611)
The hoary head is a crowne of glory, if it be found in the way of righteousnesse.
King James Version
The hoary head is a crown of glory, if it be found in the way of righteousness.
Miles Coverdale Bible (1535)
Age is a crowne of worshipe, yf it be founde in the waye of righteousnes.
THE MESSAGE
Gray hair is a mark of distinction, the award for a God-loyal life.
Amplified Bible
The silver-haired head is a crown of splendor and glory; It is found in the way of righteousness.
American Standard Version
The hoary head is a crown of glory; It shall be found in the way of righteousness.
Bible in Basic English
The grey head is a crown of glory, if it is seen in the way of righteousness.
Update Bible Version
The hoary head is a crown of glory; It shall be found in the way of righteousness.
Webster's Bible Translation
The hoary head [is] a crown of glory, [if] it is found in the way of righteousness.
New English Translation
Gray hair is like a crown of glory; it is attained in the path of righteousness.
Contemporary English Version
Gray hair is a glorious crown worn by those who have lived right.
Complete Jewish Bible
White hair is a crown of honor obtained by righteous living.
Geneva Bible (1587)
Age is a crowne of glory, when it is founde in the way of righteousnes.
George Lamsa Translation
The hoary head is a crown of glory and is exalted in the way of righteousness.
Hebrew Names Version
Gray hair is a crown of glory. It is attained by a life of righteousness.
JPS Old Testament (1917)
The hoary head is a crown of glory, it is found in the way of righteousness.
New Life Bible
Hair that is turning white is like a crown of honor. It is found in the way of being right with God.
Brenton's Septuagint (LXX)
Old age is a crown of honour, but it is found in the ways of righteousness.
English Revised Version
The hoary head is a crown of glory, it shall be found in the way of righteousness.
Berean Standard Bible
Gray hair is a crown of glory; it is attained along the path of righteousness.
New Revised Standard
Gray hair is a crown of glory; it is gained in a righteous life.
J.B. Rotherham Emphasized Bible
A crown of adorning, is a hoary head, in the way of righteousness, it should be found.
Douay-Rheims Bible
Old age is a crown of dignity, when it is found in the ways of justice.
Lexham English Bible
A crown of glory is gray hair; by a righteous life it is gained.
English Standard Version
Gray hair is a crown of glory; it is gained in a righteous life.
New American Standard Bible
A gray head is a crown of glory; It is found in the way of righteousness.
New Century Version
Gray hair is like a crown of honor; it is earned by living a good life.
Good News Translation
Long life is the reward of the righteous; gray hair is a glorious crown.
Christian Standard Bible®
Gray hair is a glorious crown; it is found in the way of righteousness.
Wycliffe Bible (1395)
A coroun of dignyte is eelde, that schal be foundun in the weies of riytfulnesse.
Revised Standard Version
A hoary head is a crown of glory; it is gained in a righteous life.
Young's Literal Translation
A crown of beauty [are] grey hairs, In the way of righteousness it is found.

Contextual Overview

31 Gray hair is a crown of glory; it is gained by living a godly life.

Bible Verse Review
  from Treasury of Scripure Knowledge

hoary: Proverbs 20:29, Leviticus 19:32, Job 32:6, Job 32:7

if: Genesis 47:7-10, 1 Samuel 12:2-5, 1 Chronicles 29:10-25, Ecclesiastes 4:13, Luke 1:6, Luke 2:29-36, Luke 2:37, Luke 2:38, Philemon 1:9

Reciprocal: 2 Samuel 19:32 - fourscore 1 Kings 3:11 - hast not 1 Chronicles 29:28 - a good old age Job 15:10 - the grayheaded Job 29:8 - young men Job 41:32 - hoary Proverbs 4:9 - a crown Ecclesiastes 12:5 - the almond Acts 21:16 - an old Titus 2:2 - the 2 Peter 2:21 - the way

Gill's Notes on the Bible

The hoary head [is] a crown of glory,.... Gray hairs, white locks through age are very ornamental; look very beautiful, bespeak gravity, wisdom, and prudence, and command reverence and respect; with the ancient Romans s, greater honour was paid to age than to family or wealth; and the elder were revered by the younger next to God, and in the stead of parents; :-;

[if] it be found in the way of righteousness; that is, if such who are old and stricken in years are like Zacharias and Elisabeth, walking in all the commandments and ordinances of the Lord blameless; when they are found in Christ, having on his righteousness; and when they live soberly, righteously, and godly; when they walk in the ways of God and true religion; keep up family worship, and private devotion; as well as constantly attend the ministry of the word and ordinances; then are they very venerable and respectable; their old age is a good old age; and in a short time they shall have the crown of glory which fadeth not away: but otherwise a sinner a hundred years old shall be accursed; an old man in the open ways of sin and vice, laden with iniquity, is a very contemptible and shocking sight.

s Vid. A. Gell. Noct. Attic. l. 2. c. 15.

Barnes' Notes on the Bible

Omit “if.” Literally, “it (i. e., the hoary head) is found in the way of righteousness,” comes as the reward of righteousness.

Clarke's Notes on the Bible

Verse Proverbs 16:31. The hoary head is a crown of glory — The latter part of the verse is very well added, for many a sinner has a hoary head.


 
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