Proverbs 22:6
Good News Translation
Teach children how they should live, and they will remember it all their life.

New Revised Standard Version
Train children in the right way, and when old, they will not stray.

Contemporary English Version
Teach your children right from wrong, and when they are grown they will still do right.

New American Bible
Train the young in the way they should go; even when old, they will not swerve from it.

Douay-Rheims Bible
It is a proverb: A young man according to his way, even when he is old, he will not depart from it.

Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

It is a proverb: A young man according to his way, even when he is old, he will not depart from it.

train up a child

Genesis 18:19 For I know that he will command his children, and his household after him, to keep the way of the Lord, and do judgment and justice: that for Abraham's sake, the Lord may bring to effect all the things he hath spoken unto him.

Deuteronomy 4:9 Keep thyself therefore, and thy soul carefully. Forget not the words that thy eyes have seen, and let them not go out of thy heart all the days of thy life. Thou shalt teach them to thy sons and to thy grandsons,

Deuteronomy 6:7 And thou shalt tell them to thy children, and thou shalt meditate upon them sitting in thy house, and walking on thy journey, sleeping and rising.

Psalm 78:3-6 How great things have we heard and known, and our fathers have told us. . . .

Ephesians 6:4 And you, fathers, provoke not your children to anger: but bring them up in the discipline and correction of the Lord.

2 Timothy 3:15 And because from thy infancy thou hast known the holy scriptures which can instruct thee to salvation by the faith which is in Christ Jesus.

the way

1 Samuel 1:28 Therefore I also have lent him to the Lord all the days of his life, he shall be lent to the Lord. And they adored the Lord there. And Anna prayed, and said:

1 Samuel 2:26 But the child Samuel advanced, and grew on, and pleased both the Lord and men.

1 Samuel 12:2,3 And now the king goeth before you: but I am old and greyheaded: and my sons are with you: having then conversed with you from my youth until this day, behold here I am. . . .

Context
A Good Name
5Arms and swords are in the way of the perverse: but he that keepeth his own soul, departeth far from them. 6It is a proverb: A young man according to his way, even when he is old, he will not depart from it.7The rich ruleth over the poor: and the borrower is servant to him that lendeth.…
Cross References
Ephesians 6:4
And you, fathers, provoke not your children to anger: but bring them up in the discipline and correction of the Lord.

Deuteronomy 4:9
Keep thyself therefore, and thy soul carefully. Forget not the words that thy eyes have seen, and let them not go out of thy heart all the days of thy life. Thou shalt teach them to thy sons and to thy grandsons,

Deuteronomy 11:19
Teach your children that they meditate on them, when thou sittest in thy house, and when thou walkest on the way, and when thou liest down and risest up.

Proverbs 22:5
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