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Originally Posted by missourimary
What should we train a child to?
Proverbs 22:1 A good name is rather to be chosen than great riches, and loving favour rather than silver and gold.
Proverbs 22:2 The rich and poor meet together: the LORD is the maker of them all.
Proverbs 22:3 A prudent man foreseeth the evil, and hideth himself: but the simple pass on, and are punished.
Proverbs 22:4 By humility and the fear of the LORD are riches, and honour, and life.
Proverbs 22:5 Thorns and snares are in the way of the froward: he that doth keep his soul shall be far from them.
Proverbs 22:6 Train up a child in the way he should go: and when he is old, he will not depart from it. |
Better, Sandy?
The best parallel I can think of is this:
If you were raised in a loving and respectful home, how often, in raising your kids or even working with others' children, have you said something and then realized "Wow. I sound just like my mother!" or "Oh, wow. That sounds like something Dad would have said!"?
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