Verse (Click for Chapter) 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. 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]. 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! Majority Standard Bible The righteous man walks with integrity; blessed are his children after 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. World English Bible A righteous man walks in integrity. Blessed are his children after him. Literal Translations Literal Standard VersionThe righteous is habitually walking in his integrity, "" O the blessedness of 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 BibleThe 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 BibleThe 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 1917He 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 ... Audio Bible 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 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.” Deuteronomy 6:6-7 These words I am commanding you today are to be upon your hearts. / And you shall teach them diligently to your children and speak of them when you sit at home and when you walk along the road, when you lie down and when you get up. 1 Kings 9:4-5 And as for you, if you walk before Me as your father David walked, with a heart of integrity and uprightness, doing all I have commanded you, and if you keep My statutes and ordinances, / then I will establish your royal throne over Israel forever, as I promised your father David when I said, ‘You will never fail to have a man on the throne of Israel.’ 2 Kings 20:3 “Please, O LORD, remember how I have walked before You faithfully and with wholehearted devotion; I have done what is good in Your sight.” And Hezekiah wept bitterly. 1 Chronicles 29:17 I know, my God, that You test the heart and delight in uprightness. All these things I have given willingly and with an upright heart, and now I have seen Your people who are present here giving joyfully and willingly to You. Matthew 5:8 Blessed are the pure in heart, for they will see God. 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. Jump to Previous Blameless Blessed Children Goes Habitually Happiness Happy Integrity Leads Righteous Righteousness Upright Walketh Walking WalksJump to Next Blameless Blessed Children Goes Habitually Happiness Happy Integrity Leads Righteous Righteousness Upright Walketh Walking WalksProverbs 20 1. Proper LivingThe righteous man The term "righteous" in Hebrew is "צַדִּיק" (tzaddik), which denotes someone who is just, lawful, and morally upright. In the biblical context, righteousness is not merely about following rules but living in a way that reflects God's character and commands. The righteous man is one who aligns his life with God's will, embodying virtues such as honesty, fairness, and compassion. This righteousness is not self-derived but is a response to God's grace and covenantal relationship with His people. walks with integrity blessed are his children after him His children are blessed after him.--Comp. 1Kings 15:4, Jeremiah 33:20-21. Verse 7. - The just man walketh in his integrity. It is better to connect the two clauses together, and not to take the first as a separate sentence, thus: "He who as a just man walketh in his integrity" - Blessed are his children after him (comp. Proverbs 14:26). So the Septuagint and Vulgate. The man of pure life, who religiously performs his duty towards God and man, shall bring a blessing on his children who follow his good example, both during his life and after his death. The temporal promise is seen in Exodus 20:6; Deuteronomy 4:40; Psalm 112:2, etc. Some see here an instance of utilitarianism; but it cannot be supposed that the writer inculcates virtue for the sake of the worldly advantages connected with it; rather he speaks from experience, and from a faithful dependence on Providence, of the happy results of a holy life.Parallel Commentaries ... Hebrew The righteous manצַדִּ֑יק (ṣad·dîq) Adjective - masculine singular Strong's 6662: Just, righteous walks מִתְהַלֵּ֣ךְ (miṯ·hal·lêḵ) Verb - Hitpael - Participle - masculine singular Strong's 1980: To go, come, walk with integrity; בְּתֻמּ֣וֹ (bə·ṯum·mōw) Preposition-b | Noun - masculine singular construct | third person masculine singular Strong's 8537: Completeness, integrity, also part of the high priest's breastplate blessed [are] אַשְׁרֵ֖י (’aš·rê) Interjection Strong's 835: Happiness, interjection, how happy! his children בָנָ֣יו (ḇā·nāw) Noun - masculine plural construct | third person masculine singular Strong's 1121: A son after him. אַחֲרָֽיו׃ (’a·ḥă·rāw) Preposition | third person masculine singular Strong's 310: The hind or following part Links Proverbs 20:7 NIVProverbs 20:7 NLT Proverbs 20:7 ESV Proverbs 20:7 NASB Proverbs 20:7 KJV Proverbs 20:7 BibleApps.com Proverbs 20:7 Biblia Paralela Proverbs 20:7 Chinese Bible Proverbs 20:7 French Bible Proverbs 20:7 Catholic Bible OT Poetry: Proverbs 20:7 A righteous man walks in integrity (Prov. 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