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

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Start a youth out on his way;(A)
even when he grows old he will not depart from it.

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22 Listen to your father who gave you life,
    and don’t despise your mother when she is old.
23 Buy the truth, and don’t sell it.
    Get wisdom, discipline, and understanding.
24 The father of the righteous has great joy.
    Whoever fathers a wise child delights in him.
25 Let your father and your mother be glad!
    Let her who bore you rejoice!

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22 Listen to your father who gave you life,
and don’t despise your mother when[a] she is old.(A)
23 Buy—and do not sell—truth,
wisdom, instruction, and understanding.(B)
24 The father of a righteous son will rejoice greatly,
and one who fathers a wise son will delight in him.(C)
25 Let your father and mother have joy,(D)
and let her who gave birth to you rejoice.

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Footnotes

  1. 23:22 Or because

24 Whoever robs his father or his mother and says, “It’s not wrong,”
    is a partner with a destroyer.

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24 The one who robs his father or mother(A)
and says, “That’s no sin,”(B)
is a companion to a person who destroys.(C)

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