⁶ Train a child in the way appropriate for him,
    and when he becomes older, he will not turn from it.

²² Listen to the one who fathered you,
    and don’t despise your mother in her old age.

²³ Purchase truth, but don’t sell it;
    store up^[a] wisdom, instruction, and understanding.

²⁴ The father of a righteous person will greatly rejoice;
    whoever fathers a wise son will be glad because of him.
²⁵ Let your father and mother rejoice;
    make the one who gave birth to you happy.

²⁴ Whoever steals from his father or mother
    but claims, “It’s no sin,”
        is a companion to someone who demolishes.