Proverbs 22:6 - The Scriptures 2009

⁶ Train up a child in the way he should go, Even when he is old he turns not away 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.

Proverbs 22:6 Cross References

Genesis 18:19

“For I have known him, so that he commands his children and his household after him, to guard the way of יהוה, to do righteousness and right-ruling, so that יהוה brings to Aḇraham what He has spoken to him.

Ephesians 6:4

And you, fathers, do not provoke your children, but bring them up in the instruction and admonition of the Master.

Deuteronomy 11:19

And you shall teach them to your children, speaking of them when you sit in your house, and when you walk by the way, and when you lie down, and when you rise up,

Deuteronomy 4:9

“Only, guard yourself, and guard your life diligently, lest you forget the Words your eyes have seen, and lest they turn aside from your heart all the days of your life. And you shall make them known to your children and your grandchildren.

Deuteronomy 6:7

and you shall impress them upon your children, and shall speak of them when you sit in your house, and when you walk by the way, and when you lie down, and when you rise up,

2 Timothy 3:15

and that from a babe you have known the Set-apart Scriptures, which are able to make you wise for deliverance through belief in Messiah יהושע.

Judges 13:12

And Manowaḥ said, “Now let Your words come true! What is to be the rule for the youth’s life and his work?”

1 Samuel 1:28

“So I have also loaned him to יהוה. All the days that he lives he shall be loaned to יהוה.” And he worshipped there before יהוה.

1 Samuel 2:26

And the young Shemu’ĕl was growing in stature, and was in favour with יהוה and also with men.