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Proverbs 29:3
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Proverbs 29:3
3Whoso loveth wisdom rejoiceth his father: but he that keepeth company with harlots spendeth his substance.
3**Whoso loueth wisedome, reioyceth his father: but hee that keepeth company with harlots, spendeth his substance.
- Chap. 10.1. and 15.20. and 27.11.
- Luk.15.13. chap. 5.9. and 28.7.
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Proverbs 29:3
Loves; regards with affection, goodwill, or devoted care.
Meaning drawn from: KJV usage (PCE + 1611) · Webster 1828 · Strong 1890 (KJV alignment witness)
Sound judgment and the right use of knowledge; skill, discernment, or understanding.
Meaning drawn from: KJV usage (PCE + 1611) · Webster 1828 · Strong 1890 (KJV alignment witness)
But; marking a contrast or qualification in the sentence.
Meaning drawn from: Skeat 1893 · KJV usage (PCE + 1611)
A group of persons associated or gathered together; fellowship or companionship.
Meaning drawn from: KJV usage (PCE) · Strong 1890 (KJV alignment witness) · Webster 1828 (independently verified transcription)
To use, expend, consume, or give out; also to pass time or life in a stated manner.
Meaning drawn from: Approved KJV word-family definition · Strong 1890 (KJV alignment witness) · KJV usage (PCE)
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Open the full verse study11My son, be wise, and make my heart glad, that I may answer him that reproacheth me.
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Open the full verse study30But as soon as this thy son was come, which hath devoured thy living with harlots, thou hast killed for him the fatted calf.
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Open the full verse study1THE proverbs of Solomon. A wise son maketh a glad father: but a foolish son is the heaviness of his mother.
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Open the full verse study20A wise son maketh a glad father: but a foolish man despiseth his mother.
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Open the full verse study13And not many days after the younger son gathered all together, and took his journey into a far country, and there wasted his substance with riotous living.
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Open the full verse study7Whoso keepeth the law is a wise son: but he that is a companion of riotous men shameth his father.
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Open the full verse study26For by means of a whorish woman a man is brought to a piece of bread: and the adulteress will hunt for the precious life.
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Open the full verse study17He that loveth pleasure shall be a poor man: he that loveth wine and oil shall not be rich.
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Open the full verse study8Remove thy way far from her, and come not nigh the door of her house:
9Lest thou give thine honour unto others, and thy years unto the cruel:
10Lest strangers be filled with thy wealth; and thy labours be in the house of a stranger;
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Open the full verse study13But the angel said unto him, Fear not, Zacharias: for thy prayer is heard; and thy wife Elisabeth shall bear thee a son, and thou shalt call his name John.
14And thou shalt have joy and gladness; and many shall rejoice at his birth.
15For he shall be great in the sight of the Lord, and shall drink neither wine nor strong drink; and he shall be filled with the Holy Ghost, even from his mother’s womb.
16And many of the children of Israel shall he turn to the Lord their God.
17And he shall go before him in the spirit and power of Elias, to turn the hearts of the fathers to the children, and the disobedient to the wisdom of the just; to make ready a people prepared for the Lord.
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Open the full verse study20There is treasure to be desired and oil in the dwelling of the wise; but a foolish man spendeth it up.
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Open the full verse study15My son, if thine heart be wise, my heart shall rejoice, even mine.
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Open the full verse study24The father of the righteous shall greatly rejoice: and he that begetteth a wise child shall have joy of him.
25Thy father and thy mother shall be glad, and she that bare thee shall rejoice.
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Open the full verse study19He that tilleth his land shall have plenty of bread: but he that followeth after vain persons shall have poverty enough.
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