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The righteous who walks in his integrity—blessed are his children after him!
Proverbs 20:7, ESV
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What this means, and why it matters to a father

The Hebrew word translated 'integrity' here is tom — wholeness, the absence of division between the inner life and the outer one. A man who walks in tom is the same person in private that he is in public, the same at home that he is at work.

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