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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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Train children in the way they should go;
    when they grow old, they won’t 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;
    don’t despise your elderly mother.
23 Buy truth and don’t sell it;
    buy wisdom, instruction, and understanding.
24 The father of the righteous will be very happy;
    the one who gives life to the wise will rejoice.
25 Your father and your mother will rejoice;
    she who gave you birth will be happy.

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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 Those who steal from their father and mother,
    and say, “It’s not a crime,”
    are friends of vandals.

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