Cross references
Proverbs 17:2
A wise servant will rule over a disgraceful son
and share his inheritance as one of the brothers.
Proverbs 17:2 has 7 cross-references in the OpenBible.info data, 4 of them with at least 4 reader votes. The strongest point to Proverbs 10:5 (7 votes) and Proverbs 14:35 (5 votes). 9 other verses point back to it. It links with 2 other books, from Genesis 15 to Ecclesiastes 4.
Which verses does Proverbs 17:2 point to?
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- Proverbs 10:57 votes
He who gathers in summer is a wise son, but he who sleeps during harvest is a disgraceful son.
- Proverbs 14:355 votes
A king delights in a wise servant, but his anger falls on the shameful.
- Proverbs 19:265 votes
He who assaults his father or evicts his mother is a son who brings shame and disgrace.
- Ecclesiastes 4:135 votes
Better is a poor but wise youth than an old but foolish king who no longer knows how to take a warning.
- Proverbs 11:292 votes
He who brings trouble on his house will inherit the wind, and the fool will be servant to the wise of heart.
- Proverbs 29:152 votes
A rod of correction imparts wisdom, but a child left to himself disgraces his mother.
- Genesis 24:4–671 vote
but will go to my country and my kindred to take a wife for my son Isaac.” The servant asked him, “What if the woman is unwilling to follow me to this land? Shall I then take your son back to the land from which you came?” …
Which verses point to Proverbs 17:2?
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