Proverbs 20:7
The just man walketh in his integrity: his children are blessed after him.
Proverbs 20:7 in other translations
| BSB | The righteous man walks with integrity; blessed are his children after him. |
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| WEB | A righteous man walks in integrity. Blessed are his children after him. |
| ASV | A righteous man that walketh in his integrity, Blessed are his children after him. |
| YLT | The righteous is walking habitually in his integrity, O the happiness of his sons after him! |
| DARBY | The righteous walketh in his integrity: blessed are his children after him! |
| BBE | An upright man goes on in his righteousness: happy are his children after him! |
| Webster | The just man walketh in his integrity: his children are blessed after him. |
What does Proverbs 20:7 mean?
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Matthew Henry's Concise Commentary
Matthew Henry, 1706 · public domain
Proverbs 20:7 in the original Hebrew
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Cross references for Proverbs 20:7
- Psalms 112:2
His seed shall be mighty upon earth: the generation of the upright shall be blessed.
- Psalms 37:26
He is ever merciful, and lendeth; and his seed is blessed.
- Jeremiah 32:39
And 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 1:12
For 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 2:39
For 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 1:3-4
For I rejoiced greatly, when the brethren came and testified of the truth that is in thee, even as thou walkest in the truth. I have no greater joy than to hear that my children walk in truth.
- Proverbs 13:22
A good man leaveth an inheritance to his children’s children: and the wealth of the sinner is laid up for the just.
- Psalms 15:2
He that walketh uprightly, and worketh righteousness, and speaketh the truth in his heart.
- Proverbs 19:1
Better is the poor that walketh in his integrity, than he that is perverse in his lips, and is a fool.
- Genesis 17:7
And 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.
- Luke 1:6
And they were both righteous before God, walking in all the commandments and ordinances of the Lord blameless.
- Psalms 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.
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Context
- Proverbs 20:6
Most men will proclaim every one his own goodness: but a faithful man who can find?
- Proverbs 20:7
The just man walketh in his integrity: his children are blessed after him.
- Proverbs 20:8
A king that sitteth in the throne of judgment scattereth away all evil with his eyes.
Proverbs 20:7 in other languages
| Spanish Reina-Valera 1909 | El justo que camina en su integridad, bienaventurados serán sus hijos después de él. |
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| French Bible J.N. Darby 1885 | Le juste marche dans son intégrité; heureux ses fils après lui! |
| German Elberfelder 1871 | Wer in seiner Vollkommenheit gerecht wandelt, glückselig sind seine Kinder nach ihm! |
| Latin Clementine Vulgate | Justus qui ambulat in simplicitate sua beatos post se filios derelinquet. |