Pro 17:6
Children's children {are} the crown of old men; and the glory of children {are} their fathers.
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Lo, children {are} an heritage of the LORD: {and} the fruit of the womb {is his} reward.
A good {man} leaveth an inheritance to his children's children: and the wealth of the sinner {is} laid up for the just.
The hoary head {is} a crown of glory, {if} it be found in the way of righteousness.
Thy wife {shall be} as a fruitful vine by the sides of thine house: thy children like olive plants round about thy table.
And God said unto Moses, I AM THAT I AM: and he said, Thus shalt thou say unto the children of Israel, I AM hath sent me unto you.
Notwithstanding in thy days I will not do it for David thy father's sake: {but} I will rend it out of the hand of thy son.
Nevertheless for David's sake did the LORD his God give him a lamp in Jerusalem, to set up his son after him, and to establish Jerusalem: {lamp: or, candle}
And Joseph saw Ephraim's children of the third {generation}: the children also of Machir the son of Manasseh were brought up upon Joseph's knees. {brought...: Heb. born}
After this lived Job an hundred and forty years, and saw his sons, and his sons' sons, {even} four generations.
After this lived Job an hundred and forty years, and saw his sons, and his sons' sons, {even} four generations.
Yea, thou shalt see thy children's children, {and} peace upon Israel.
As arrows {are} in the hand of a mighty man; so {are} children of the youth.
The hoary head {is} a crown of glory, {if} it be found in the way of righteousness.
For what {is} our hope, or joy, or crown of rejoicing? {Are} not even ye in the presence of our Lord Jesus Christ at his coming? {rejoicing: or, glorying?}
Lift up thine eyes round about, and behold: all these gather themselves together, {and} come to thee. {As} I live, saith the LORD, thou shalt surely clothe thee with them all, as with an ornament, and bind them {on thee}, as a bride {doeth}.
Yet setteth he the poor on high from affliction, and maketh {him} families like a flock. {from: or, after}
And also thus said the king, Blessed {be} the LORD God of Israel, which hath given {one} to sit on my throne this day, mine eyes even seeing {it}.
Their seed is established in their sight with them, and their offspring before their eyes.
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.
How do ye say, We {are} wise, and the law of the LORD {is} with us? Lo, certainly in vain made he {it}; the pen of the scribes {is} in vain. {in vain made...: or, the false pen of the scribes worketh for falsehood}
When the Almighty {was} yet with me, {when} my children {were} about me;
For ye are our glory and joy.