Proverbs 23:25
May your father and mother be glad, and may she who gave you birth rejoice!
BSB
ASV
Let thy father and thy mother be glad, And let her that bare thee rejoice.
KJV
Thy father and thy mother shall be glad, and she that bare thee shall rejoice.
Let your father and mother rejoice, etc. Let God the Father rejoice over your righteousness; let the Church, your mother, also rejoice; and let the priest who regenerated you through the grace of baptism, and who educated you from childhood, rejoice in your good works.
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
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Luke 1:58Her neighbors and relatives heard that the Lord had shown her great mercy, and they rejoiced with her.
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Rejoice with those who rejoice; weep with those who weep.
Then the women said to Naomi, “Blessed be the LORD, who has not left you this day without a kinsman-redeemer. May his name become famous in Israel.
“The Lord has done this for me. In these days He has shown me favor and taken away my disgrace among the people.”
He settles the barren woman in her home as a joyful mother to her children. Hallelujah!
He will be a joy and delight to you, and many will rejoice at his birth,
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Proverbs 17:25A foolish son brings grief to his father and bitterness to her who bore him.
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The proverbs of Solomon: A wise son brings joy to his father, but a foolish son grief to his mother.
A foolish son is his father’s ruin, and a quarrelsome wife is like a constant dripping.
A wise son brings joy to his father, but a foolish man despises his mother.