Proverbs 22:6 – ‘Train a child’
22:6 Train a child in the way that he should go,
and when he is old he will not turn from it.
This well-known proverb has been understood in a variety of ways.
In popular Christian thinking, it is thought to constitute an unconditional promise to parents. It is taken as a guarantee of the success of early training of children. But not a few parents find that, despite their best efforts at bringing up their child ‘in the way he should go’, when he is old he does turn from it. …