Proverbs 22:6
It is a proverb: A young man according to his way, even when he is old he will not depart from it.
Douay-Rheims 1899
In The King James Version
Train up a child in the way he should go: and when he is old, he will not depart from it.
In Context
7The rich ruleth over the poor: and the borrower is servant to him that lendeth.
Cross References
Deuteronomy 4:9Keep thyself therefore, and thy soul carefully. Forget not the words that thy eyes have seen, and let them not go out of thy heart all the days of thy life. Thou shalt teach them to thy sons and to thy grandsons,
Judges 13:12And Manue said to him: When thy word shall come to pass, what wilt thou that the child should do? or from what shall he keep himself?
1 Samuel 2:26But the child Samuel advanced, and grew on, and pleased both the Lord and men.
Psalms 78:3How great things have we heard and known, and our fathers have told us.
2 Timothy 3:15And because from thy infancy thou hast known the holy scriptures, which can instruct thee to salvation, by the faith which is in Christ Jesus.
Matthew Henry on Proverbs 22:6
5 Thorns and snares are in the way of the froward: he that doth keep his soul shall be far from them. Note 1. The way of sin is vexatious and dangerous: In the way of the froward, that crooked way, which is contrary to the will and word of God, thorns and snares are found, thorns of grief for past sins and snares entangling them in further sin. He that makes no conscience of what he says and does will find himself hampered by that imaginary liberty, and tormented by his pleasures. Froward people, who are soon… Read the whole commentary →