KJV King James Version
The just [man] walketh in his integrity: his children [are] blessed after him.
VERSE STUDY • KJV
Proverbs 20:7
The just [man] walketh in his integrity: his children [are] blessed after him.
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BSB Berean Standard Bible
The righteous man walks with integrity; blessed are his children after him.
WEB World English Bible
A righteous man walks in integrity. Blessed are his children after him.
ASV American Standard Version
A righteous man that walketh in his integrity, Blessed are his children after him.
YLT Young’s Literal Translation
The righteous is walking habitually in his integrity, O the happiness of his sons after him!
Surrounding context — Proverbs 20
4 The sluggard will not plow by reason of the cold; [therefore] shall he beg in harvest, and [have] nothing.
5 Counsel in the heart of man [is like] deep water; but a man of understanding will draw it out.
6 Most men will proclaim every one his own goodness: but a faithful man who can find?
7 The just [man] walketh in his integrity: his children [are] blessed after him.
8 A king that sitteth in the throne of judgment scattereth away all evil with his eyes.
9 Who can say, I have made my heart clean, I am pure from my sin?
10 Divers weights, [and] divers measures, both of them [are] alike abomination to the LORD.
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Psalm 112:2His seed shall be mighty upon earth: the generation of the upright shall be blessed.Psalm 37:26[He is] ever merciful, and lendeth; and his seed [is] blessed.Jeremiah 32:39And I will give them one heart, and one way, that they may fear me for ever, for the good of them, and of their children after them:2 Corinthians 1:12For our rejoicing is this, the testimony of our conscience, that in simplicity and godly sincerity, not with fleshly wisdom, but by the grace of God, we have had our conversation in the world, and more abundantly to you-ward.Acts 2:39For the promise is unto you, and to your children, and to all that are afar off, [even] as many as the Lord our God shall call.3 John 1:3-4For I rejoiced greatly, when the brethren came and testified of the truth that is in thee, even as thou walkest in the truth.Proverbs 13:22A good [man] leaveth an inheritance to his children’s children: and the wealth of the sinner [is] laid up for the just.Proverbs 19:1Better [is] the poor that walketh in his integrity, than [he that is] perverse in his lips, and is a fool.Psalm 15:2He that walketh uprightly, and worketh righteousness, and speaketh the truth in his heart.Genesis 17:7And I will establish my covenant between me and thee and thy seed after thee in their generations for an everlasting covenant, to be a God unto thee, and to thy seed after thee.Proverbs 14:2He that walketh in his uprightness feareth the LORD: but [he that is] perverse in his ways despiseth him.Luke 1:6And they were both righteous before God, walking in all the commandments and ordinances of the Lord blameless.Psalm 26:1[A Psalm] of David. Judge me, O LORD; for I have walked in mine integrity: I have trusted also in the LORD; [therefore] I shall not slide.Titus 2:11-12For the grace of God that bringeth salvation hath appeared to all men,Isaiah 33:15He that walketh righteously, and speaketh uprightly; he that despiseth the gain of oppressions, that shaketh his hands from holding of bribes, that stoppeth his ears from hearing of blood, and shutteth his eyes from seeing evil;Psalm 26:11But as for me, I will walk in mine integrity: redeem me, and be merciful unto me.
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