Proverbs 20:7
The righteous man walks with integrity; blessed are his children after him.
BSB
ASV
A righteous man that walketh in his integrity, Blessed are his children after him.
KJV
The just man walketh in his integrity: his children are blessed after him.
The just man who walks in his simplicity, etc. This cannot always stand according to the letter. For even the blessed Samuel, a just and simple man, left unlike sons behind him; and Ahaz, an unjust and reprobate king, left a blessed son Hezekiah after …
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 Psa 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.
Rare words are the text's own signal of a deliberate thread: the fewer the occurrences, the more the places it appears belong together.
The walk8
Follow this verse’s cross-references two steps out. Each card is a verse this one points to, and beneath it the verses that one points to in turn. Where several different paths arrive at the same place, that place is listed first: the text keeps returning to it. Every stop shows its own words, and every stop is a page.
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Jeremiah 32:39I will give them one heart and one way, so that they will always fear Me for their own good and for the good of their children after them.
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And I will give them singleness of heart and put a new spirit within them; I will remove their heart of stone and give them a heart of flesh,
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Psalms 112:2His descendants will be mighty in the land; the generation of the upright will be blessed.
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I will establish My covenant as an everlasting covenant between Me and you and your descendants after you, to be your God and the God of your descendants after you.
They are ever generous and quick to lend, and their children are a blessing.
This promise belongs to you and your children and to all who are far off—to all whom the Lord our God will call to Himself.”
His soul will dwell in prosperity, and his descendants will inherit the land.
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Acts 2:39This promise belongs to you and your children and to all who are far off—to all whom the Lord our God will call to Himself.”
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For I will pour water on the thirsty land, and currents on the dry ground. I will pour out My Spirit on your descendants, and My blessing on your offspring.
And those He predestined, He also called; those He called, He also justified; those He justified, He also glorified.
I will establish My covenant as an everlasting covenant between Me and you and your descendants after you, to be your God and the God of your descendants after you.
