Tag: Old Testament wisdom literature

Proverbs 22:6 is one of those verses that most people assume they already understand. In most English translations, it reads something like this: “Train up a child in the way he should go; even when he is old he will not depart from it.” Read that way, it sounds very clearly like a promise. If you raise your child properly, he will continue on that path when he gets older. That is how many parents read it, how many pastors preach it, and how many Christians instinctively understand it. But I do not think that is actually what the verse is saying.

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