Proverbs 23:25
Good News Translation
Let your father and mother be proud of you; give your mother that happiness.

New Revised Standard Version
Let your father and mother be glad; let her who bore you rejoice.

Contemporary English Version
Make your parents proud, especially your mother.

New American Bible
Let your father and mother rejoice; let her who bore you exult.

Douay-Rheims Bible
Let thy father and thy mother be joyful, and let her rejoice that bore thee.

Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

Let thy father and thy mother be joyful, and let her rejoice that bore thee.

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Proverbs 17:25 A foolish son is the anger of the father: and the sorrow of the mother that bore him.

1 Chronicles 4:9,10 And Jabes was more honourable than any of his brethren, and his mother called his name Jabes, saying: Because I bore him with sorrow. . . .

Luke 1:31-33,40-47,58 Behold thou shalt conceive in thy womb and shalt bring forth a son: and thou shalt call his name Jesus. . . .

Luke 11:27,28 And it came to pass, as he spoke these things, a certain woman from the crowd, lifting up her voice, said to him: Blessed is the womb that bore thee and the paps that gave thee suck. . . .

Context
True Riches
24The father of the just rejoiceth greatly: he that hath begotten a wise son, shall have joy in him. 25Let thy father and thy mother be joyful, and let her rejoice that bore thee.26My son, give me thy heart: and let thy eyes keep my ways.…
Cross References
Proverbs 27:11
Study wisdom, my son, and make my heart joyful, that thou mayst give an answer to him that reproacheth.

Proverbs 23:26
My son, give me thy heart: and let thy eyes keep my ways.

Proverbs 23:24
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