Luke 1:14

The women said to Naomi, “Blessed be Yahweh, who has not left you today without a near kinsman. Let his name be famous in Israel.

The proverbs of Solomon. A wise son makes a glad father; but a foolish son brings grief to his mother.

“Sing, barren, you who didn’t give birth; break out into singing, and cry aloud, you who didn’t travail with child: for more are the children of the desolate than the children of the married wife,” says Yahweh.

Her neighbors and her relatives heard that the Lord had magnified his mercy toward her, and they rejoiced with her.

God said, “No, but Sarah, your wife, will bear you a son. You shall call his name Isaac. I will establish my covenant with him for an everlasting covenant for his offspring after him.

For your loving kindness is great toward me. You have delivered my soul from the lowest Sheol.

A wise son listens to his father’s instruction, but a scoffer doesn’t listen to rebuke.

Whoever loves wisdom brings joy to his father; but a companion of prostitutes squanders his wealth.

Then Abraham fell on his face, and laughed, and said in his heart, “Will a child be born to him who is one hundred years old? Will Sarah, who is ninety years old, give birth?”

He will still fill your mouth with laughter, your lips with shouting.

He settles the barren woman in her home as a joyful mother of children. Praise Yah!

Then our mouth was filled with laughter, and our tongue with singing. Then they said among the nations, “Yahweh has done great things for them.”

He who becomes the father of a fool grieves. The father of a fool has no joy.

“The eye that mocks at his father, and scorns obedience to his mother: the ravens of the valley shall pick it out, the young eagles shall eat it.

“Now, behold, if he fathers a son, who sees all his father’s sins, which he has done, and fears, and does not such like;

“Thus has the Lord done to me in the days in which he looked at me, to take away my reproach among men.”

Rejoice with those who rejoice. Weep with those who weep.

I rejoice greatly that I have found some of your children walking in truth, even as we have been commanded by the Father.

See now, your servant has found favor in your sight, and you have magnified your loving kindness, which you have shown to me in saving my life. I can’t escape to the mountain, lest evil overtake me, and I die.

Abraham called his son who was born to him, whom Sarah bore to him, Isaac.

Sarah said, “God has made me laugh. Everyone who hears will laugh with me.”

Someone told Jacob, and said, “Behold, your son Joseph comes to you,” and Israel strengthened himself, and sat on the bed.

Moses took the bones of Joseph with him, for he had made the children of Israel swear, saying, “God will surely visit you, and you shall carry up my bones away from here with you.”

“Honor your father and your mother, that your days may be long in the land which Yahweh your God gives you.

Also thus said the king, ‘Blessed be Yahweh, the God of Israel, who has given one to sit on my throne today, my eyes even seeing it.’ ”

Now therefore don’t hold him guiltless, for you are a wise man; and you will know what you ought to do to him, and you shall bring his gray head down to Sheol with blood.”

When Hiram heard the words of Solomon, he rejoiced greatly, and said, “Blessed is Yahweh today, who has given to David a wise son to rule over this great people.”

My son, if sinners entice you, don’t consent.

My son, if you will receive my words, and store up my commandments within you,

Listen, sons, to a father’s instruction. Pay attention and know understanding;

A wise son makes a father glad, but a foolish man despises his mother.

The wise in heart shall be called prudent. Pleasantness of the lips promotes instruction.

A foolish son brings grief to his father, and bitterness to her who bore him.

A foolish son is the calamity of his father. A wife’s quarrels are a continual dripping.

My son, if your heart is wise, then my heart will be glad, even mine.

Listen to your father who gave you life, and don’t despise your mother when she is old.

The father of the righteous has great joy. Whoever fathers a wise child delights in him.

Let your father and your mother be glad! Let her who bore you rejoice!

Be wise, my son, and bring joy to my heart, then I can answer my tormentor.

Who knows whether he will be a wise man or a fool? Yet he will have rule over all of my labor in which I have labored, and in which I have shown myself wise under the sun. This also is vanity.

a time to weep, and a time to laugh; a time to mourn, and a time to dance;

“Can a woman forget her nursing child, that she should not have compassion on the son of her womb? Yes, these may forget, yet I will not forget you!

Then you will say in your heart, ‘Who has conceived these for me, since I have been bereaved of my children and am alone, an exile, and wandering back and forth? Who has brought these up? Behold, I was left alone. Where were these?’ ”

“Before I formed you in the womb, I knew you. Before you were born, I sanctified you. I have appointed you a prophet to the nations.”

Cursed is the man who brought news to my father, saying, “A boy is born to you,” making him very glad.

Yes, I will rejoice over them to do them good, and I will plant them in this land assuredly with my whole heart and with my whole soul.”

Yahweh, your God, is among you, a mighty one who will save. He will rejoice over you with joy. He will calm you in his love. He will rejoice over you with singing.

Behold, they brought to him a man who was paralyzed, lying on a bed. Jesus, seeing their faith, said to the paralytic, “Son, cheer up! Your sins are forgiven you.”

Blessed are you who hunger now, for you will be filled. Blessed are you who weep now, for you will laugh.

But it was appropriate to celebrate and be glad, for this, your brother, was dead, and is alive again. He was lost, and is found.’ ”

I have spoken these things to you, that my joy may remain in you, and that your joy may be made full.

Jesus therefore said to them, “Children, have you anything to eat?” They answered him, “No.”

who, when he had come, and had seen the grace of God, was glad. He exhorted them all, that with purpose of heart they should remain near to the Lord.

When one member suffers, all the members suffer with it. When one member is honored, all the members rejoice with it.

But you know the proof of him, that as a child serves a father, so he served with me in furtherance of the Good News.

yet for love’s sake I rather beg, being such a one as Paul, the aged, but also a prisoner of Jesus Christ.

Yes, brother, let me have joy from you in the Lord. Refresh my heart in the Lord.

By faith, even Sarah herself received power to conceive, and she bore a child when she was past age, since she counted him faithful who had promised.

My little children, I write these things to you so that you may not sin. If anyone sins, we have a Counselor with the Father, Jesus Christ, the righteous.

I have no greater joy than this: to hear about my children walking in truth.