Proverbs 22:6 - Revised Version with Apocrypha 1895

⁶ 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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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.

Douay-Rheims version of The Bible - 1752 version

⁶ It is a proverb: A young man according to his way, even when he is old he will not depart from it.

Proverbs 22:6 Cross References

Genesis 18:19

For I have known him, to the end that he may command his children and his household after him, that they may keep the way of the LORD, to do justice and judgement; to the end that the LORD may bring upon Abraham that which he hath spoken of him.

Ephesians 6:4

And, ye fathers, provoke not your children to wrath: but nurture them in the chastening and admonition of the Lord.

Deuteronomy 11:19

And ye shall teach them your children, talking of them, when thou sittest in thine house, and when thou walkest by the way, and when thou liest down, and when thou risest up.

Deuteronomy 4:9

Only take heed to thyself, and keep thy soul diligently, lest thou forget the things which thine eyes saw, and lest they depart from thy heart all the days of thy life; but make them known unto thy children and thy children's children;

Deuteronomy 6:7

and thou shalt teach them diligently unto thy children, and shalt talk of them when thou sittest in thine house, and when thou walkest by the way, and when thou liest down, and when thou risest up.

2 Timothy 3:15

and that from a babe thou hast known the sacred writings which are able to make thee wise unto salvation through faith which is in Christ Jesus.

Judges 13:12

And Manoah said, Now let thy words come to pass: what shall be the manner of the child, and what shall be his work?

1 Samuel 1:28

wherefore I also have granted him to the LORD; as long as he liveth he is granted to the LORD. And he worshipped the LORD there.

1 Samuel 2:26

And the child Samuel grew on, and was in favour both with the LORD, and also with men.