Proverbs 28:7
Good News Translation
Young people who obey the law are intelligent. Those who make friends with good-for-nothings are a disgrace to their parents.

New Revised Standard Version
Those who keep the law are wise children, but companions of gluttons shame their parents.

Contemporary English Version
It makes good sense to obey the Law of God, but you disgrace your parents if you make friends with worthless nobodies.

New American Bible
Whoever heeds instruction is a wise son, but whoever joins with wastrels disgraces his father.

Douay-Rheims Bible
He that keepeth the law, is a wise son: but he that feedeth gluttons, shameth his father.

Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

He that keepeth the law, is a wise son: but he that feedeth gluttons, shameth his father.

keepeth

Proverbs 2:1 That thy ear may hearken to wisdom: incline thy heart to know prudence.

Proverbs 3:1 For they shall add to thee length of days, and years of life, and peace.

but

Proverbs 28:24 He that stealeth any thing from his father, or from his mother: and saith, This is no sin, is the partner of a murderer.

Proverbs 19:26 He that afflicteth his father, and chaseth away his mother, is infamous and unhappy.

Proverbs 23:19-22 Hear thou, my son, and be wise: and guide thy mind in the way. . . .

Proverbs 29:3,15 A man that loveth wisdom, rejoiceth his father: but he that maintaineth harlots, shall squander away his substance. . . .

Luke 15:13,30 And not many days after, the younger son, gathering all together, went abroad into a far country: and there wasted his substance, living riotously. . . .

1 Peter 4:3,4 For the time past is sufficient to have fulfilled the will of the Gentiles, for them who have walked in riotousness, lusts, excess of wine, revellings, banquetings and unlawful worshipping of idols. . . .

is a companion of riotous men

Context
The Boldness of the Righteous
6Better is the poor man walking in his simplicity, than the rich in crooked ways. 7He that keepeth the law, is a wise son: but he that feedeth gluttons, shameth his father.8He that heapeth together riches by usury and loan, gathereth them for him that will be bountiful to the poor.…
Cross References
Proverbs 23:20
Be not in the feasts of great drinkers, nor in their revellings, who contribute flesh to eat:

Proverbs 29:3
A man that loveth wisdom, rejoiceth his father: but he that maintaineth harlots, shall squander away his substance.

Proverbs 28:6
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