Proverbs 20:7
New International Version
The righteous lead blameless lives; blessed are their children after them.

New Living Translation
The godly walk with integrity; blessed are their children who follow them.

English Standard Version
The righteous who walks in his integrity— blessed are his children after him!

Berean Standard Bible
The righteous man walks with integrity; blessed are his children after him.

Berean Literal Bible
A righteous one is walking about in his integrity; blessed are his sons after him.

King James Bible
The just man walketh in his integrity: his children are blessed after him.

New King James Version
The righteous man walks in his integrity; His children are blessed after him.

New American Standard Bible
A righteous person who walks in his integrity— How blessed are his sons after him.

NASB 1995
A righteous man who walks in his integrity—How blessed are his sons after him.

NASB 1977
A righteous man who walks in his integrity— How blessed are his sons after him.

Legacy Standard Bible
A righteous man who walks in his integrity— How blessed are his sons after him.

Amplified Bible
The righteous man who walks in integrity and lives life in accord with his [godly] beliefs— How blessed [happy and spiritually secure] are his children after him [who have his example to follow].

Berean Annotated Bible
The righteous man walks with integrity; blessed are his children after him.

Christian Standard Bible
A righteous person acts with integrity; his children who come after him will be happy.

Holman Christian Standard Bible
The one who lives with integrity is righteous; his children who come after him will be happy.

American Standard Version
A righteous man that walketh in his integrity, Blessed are his children after him.

Contemporary English Version
Good people live right, and God blesses the children who follow their example.

English Revised Version
A just man that walketh in his integrity, blessed are his children after him.

GOD'S WORD® Translation
A righteous person lives on the basis of his integrity. Blessed are his children after he is gone.

Good News Translation
Children are fortunate if they have a father who is honest and does what is right.

International Standard Version
The righteous person lives a life of integrity; happy are his children who follow him!

NET Bible
The righteous person behaves in integrity; blessed are his children after him.

New Heart English Bible
A righteous man walks in integrity; blessed are his children after him.

Webster's Bible Translation
The just man walketh in his integrity: his children are blessed after him.
Majority Text Translations
Majority Standard Bible
The righteous man walks with integrity; blessed are his children after him.

World English Bible
A righteous man walks in integrity. Blessed are his children after him.
Literal Translations
Literal Standard Version
The righteous is habitually walking in his integrity, "" O the blessedness of his sons after him!

Berean Literal Bible
A righteous one is walking about in his integrity; blessed are his sons after him.

Young's Literal Translation
The righteous is walking habitually in his integrity, O the happiness of his sons after him!

Smith's Literal Translation
The just one going about in his integrity: his sons happy after him.
Catholic Translations
Douay-Rheims Bible
The just that walketh in his simplicity, shall leave behind him blessed children.

Catholic Public Domain Version
The just who walks in his simplicity shall leave behind him blessed sons.

New American Bible
The just walk in integrity; happy are their children after them!

New Revised Standard Version
The righteous walk in integrity— happy are the children who follow them!
Translations from Aramaic
Lamsa Bible
The just man walks in his integrity; blessed are his children after him.

Peshitta Holy Bible Translated
Blessed after him are the children of the righteous one who walks in integrity.
OT Translations
JPS Tanakh 1917
He that walketh in his integrity as a just man, Happy are his children after him.

Brenton Septuagint Translation
He that walks blameless in justice, shall leave his children blessed.

Additional Translations ...



Context
Wine is a Mocker
6Many a man proclaims his loving devotion, but who can find a trustworthy man? 7The righteous man walks with integrity; blessed are his children after him. 8A king who sits on a throne to judge sifts out all evil with his eyes.…

Cross References
The righteous man walks with integrity;

Proverbs 10:9
He who walks in integrity walks securely, but he who perverts his ways will be found out.

Proverbs 28:6
Better a poor man who walks with integrity than a rich man whose ways are perverse.

Psalm 15:2
He who walks with integrity and practices righteousness, who speaks the truth from his heart,
blessed are his children after him.

Psalm 112:2
His descendants will be mighty in the land; the generation of the upright will be blessed.

Psalm 128:3-4
Your wife will be like a fruitful vine flourishing within your house, your sons like olive shoots sitting around your table. / In this way indeed shall blessing come to the man who fears the LORD.

Psalm 37:25-26
I once was young and now am old, yet never have I seen the righteous abandoned or their children begging for bread. / They are ever generous and quick to lend, and their children are a blessing.
Psalm 112:1-2
Hallelujah! Blessed is the man who fears the LORD, who greatly delights in His commandments. / His descendants will be mighty in the land; the generation of the upright will be blessed.

Psalm 37:23-24
The steps of a man are ordered by the LORD who takes delight in his journey. / Though he falls, he will not be overwhelmed, for the LORD is holding his hand.

Psalm 25:21
May integrity and uprightness preserve me, because I wait for You.

Psalm 26:1
Of David. Vindicate me, O LORD! For I have walked with integrity; I have trusted in the LORD without wavering.

Psalm 84:11
For the LORD God is a sun and a shield; the LORD gives grace and glory; He withholds no good thing from those who walk with integrity.

Psalm 119:1
Blessed are those whose way is blameless, who walk in the Law of the LORD.

Psalm 128:1-2
A song of ascents. Blessed are all who fear the LORD, who walk in His ways! / For when you eat the fruit of your labor, blessings and prosperity will be yours.

Isaiah 33:15-16
He who walks righteously and speaks with sincerity, who refuses gain from extortion, whose hand never takes a bribe, who stops his ears against murderous plots and shuts his eyes tightly against evil— / he will dwell on the heights; the mountain fortress will be his refuge; his food will be provided and his water assured.

Job 1:1-5
There was a man in the land of Uz whose name was Job. And this man was blameless and upright, fearing God and shunning evil. / He had seven sons and three daughters, / and he owned 7,000 sheep, 3,000 camels, 500 yoke of oxen, 500 female donkeys, and a very large number of servants. Job was the greatest man of all the people of the East. …

Genesis 18:19
For I have chosen him, so that he will command his children and his household after him to keep the way of the LORD by doing what is right and just, in order that the LORD may bring upon Abraham what He has promised.”


Treasury of Scripture

The just man walks in his integrity: his children are blessed after him.

just

Proverbs 14:2
He that walketh in his uprightness feareth the LORD: but he that is perverse in his ways despiseth him.

Proverbs 19:1
Better is the poor that walketh in his integrity, than he that is perverse in his lips, and is a fool.

Psalm 15:2
He that walketh uprightly, and worketh righteousness, and speaketh the truth in his heart.

his children

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.

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.

Psalm 37:26
He is ever merciful, and lendeth; and his seed is blessed.

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