Proverbs 22:6 - Douy-Rheims Bible Challoner Revision

⁶ 3 The slothful man saith: There is a lion without, I shall be slain in the midst of the streets.

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King James Version (Oxford) 1769

⁶ Train up a child in the way he should go: And when he is old, he will not depart from it.

Amplified Bible - Classic Edition

⁶ Train up a child in the way he should go [and in keeping with his individual gift or bent], and when he is old he will not depart from it. [Eph. 6:4; II Tim. 3:15.]

American Standard Version (1901)

⁶ Train up a child in the way he should go, And even when he is old he will not depart from it.

Common English Bible

⁶ Train children in the way they should go; when they grow old, they won’t depart from it.

Catholic Public Domain Version

⁶ The proverb is: A youth is close to his way; even when he is old, he will not withdraw from it.

Proverbs 22:6 Cross References

Genesis 18:19

9 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.

Ephesians 6:4

3 Therefore take unto you the armour of God, that you may be able to resist in the evil day, and to stand in all things perfect.

Deuteronomy 11:19

4 Every place, that your foot shall tread upon, shall be yours. From the desert, and from Libanus, from the great river Euphrates unto the western sea shall be your borders.

Deuteronomy 4:9

4 And he commanded me at that time that I should teach you the ceremonies and judgments which you shall do in the land, that you shall possess.

Deuteronomy 6:7

2 And thou shalt have eaten and be full:

2 Timothy 3:15

I have fought a good fight, I have finished my course, I have kept the faith.

Judges 13:12

7 And he said to him: What is thy name, that, if thy word shall come to pass, we may honour thee?

1 Samuel 1:28

They that were full before have hired out themselves for bread: and the hungry are filled, so that the barren hath borne many: and she that had many children is weakened.

1 Samuel 2:26

1 Behold the days come: and I will cut off thy arm, and the arm of thy father's house, that there shall not be an old man in thy house.