Proverbs 22:6
Modern Translations
New International Version
Start children off on the way they should go, and even when they are old they will not turn from it.

New Living Translation
Direct your children onto the right path, and when they are older, they will not leave it.

English Standard Version
Train up a child in the way he should go; even when he is old he will not depart from it.

Berean Study Bible
Train up a child in the way he should go, and when he is old he will not depart from it.

New American Standard Bible
Train up a child in the way he should go, Even when he grows older he will not abandon it.

NASB 1995
Train up a child in the way he should go, Even when he is old he will not depart from it.

NASB 1977
Train up a child in the way he should go, Even when he is old he will not depart from it.

Amplified Bible
Train up a child in the way he should go [teaching him to seek God’s wisdom and will for his abilities and talents], Even when he is old he will not depart from it.

Christian Standard Bible
Start a youth out on his way; even when he grows old he will not depart from it.

Holman Christian Standard Bible
Teach a youth about the way he should go; even when he is old he will not depart from it.

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

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

GOD'S WORD® Translation
Train a child in the way he should go, and even when he is old he will not turn away from it.

International Standard Version
Train a child in the way appropriate for him, and when he becomes older, he will not turn from it.

NET Bible
Train a child in the way that he should go, and when he is old he will not turn from it.
Classic Translations
King James Bible
Train up a child in the way he should go: and when he is old, he will not depart from it.

New King James Version
Train up a child in the way he should go, And when he is old he will not depart from it.

King James 2000 Bible
Train up a child in the way he should go: and when he is old, he will not depart from it.

New Heart English Bible
Train a child in the way he should go, and when he is old he will not depart from it.

World English Bible
Train up a child in the way he should go, and when he is old he will not depart from it.

American King James Version
Train up a child in the way he should go: and when he is old, he will not depart from it.

American Standard Version
Train up a child in the way he should go, And even when he is old he will not depart from it.

A Faithful Version
Train up a child in the way he should go; and when he is old, he will not depart from it.

Darby Bible Translation
Train up the child according to the tenor of his way, and when he is old he will not depart from it.

English Revised Version
Train up a child in the way he should go, and even when he is old he will not depart from it.

Webster's Bible Translation
Train up a child in the way he should go: and when he is old, he will not depart from it.

Early Modern
Geneva Bible of 1587
Teache a childe in the trade of his way, and when he is olde, he shall not depart from it.

Bishops' Bible of 1568
Teache a chylde what way he should go: for he shall not leaue it when he is olde.

Coverdale Bible of 1535
Yf thou teachest a childe in his youth what waye he shulde go, he shall not leaue it when he is olde.
Literal Translations
Literal Standard Version
Give instruction to a youth about his way, "" Even when he is old he does not turn from it.

Young's Literal Translation
Give instruction to a youth about his way, Even when he is old he turneth not from it.

Smith's Literal Translation
Straiten to a youth upon the mouth of his way, also when he shall grow old he will not depart from it.

Catholic Translations
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.

Catholic Public Domain Version
The proverb is: A youth is close to his way; even when he is old, he will not withdraw from it.

Translations from Aramaic
Peshitta Holy Bible Translated
He that reproves a boy concerning the beginning of his way, even if he becomes old, he will not turn away from it.

Lamsa Bible
Train up a child in the way he should go; and when he is old he will not depart from it.

OT Translations
JPS Tanakh 1917
Train up a child in the way he should go, And even when he is old, he will not depart from it.
















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