Teach a youth about the way he should go;(A)
even when he is old he will not depart from it.

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Train the child concerning his way;[a]
    even when he is old, he will not stray from it.

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Footnotes

  1. Proverbs 22:6 Literally “on the mouth of his way”

Start(A) children off on the way they should go,(B)
    and even when they are old they will not turn from it.(C)

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15 Foolishness is tangled up in the heart of a youth;
the rod of discipline will drive it away from him.(A)

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15 Folly is bound up in the heart[a] of a boy;[b]
    the rod of discipline will drive it[c] from him.

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Footnotes

  1. Proverbs 22:15 Or “mind”
  2. Proverbs 22:15 Or “young man,” or “adolescent”
  3. Proverbs 22:15 That is, folly

15 Folly is bound up in the heart of a child,
    but the rod of discipline will drive it far away.(A)

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