Proverbs 22:6 Train up a child in the way he should go: and when he is old, he will not depart from it. I. THE HEINOUS NATURE AND FATAL CONSEQUENCES OF THE NEGLECT OF PARENTAL DUTY. 1. As it appears in the sight of God. 2. As it affects the children. 3. As it affects parents themselves. II. HOW PARENTS SHOULD EDUCATE THEIR CHILDREN. 1. Train your children to revere you. 2. Train them to implicit submission to your authority. Insubordination in youth is the certain inlet to all that is disorderly in riper years. 3. In order to train your children to moderation in pleasure, lead them, as early as possible, to mark the imposture of passion, and guard them from all intimacy with the loose and the dissipated, and interdict them of all loose and licentious reading. 4. Train them to industry and frugality. Unremitting application and assiduity are the only means by which pre-eminence among men can be attained. 5. Train your children to virtue and candour, and justice and humanity. 6. Train your children to piety. True views of the benignity of the Ruler of nature will impress their susceptible breast, with the feelings of genuine piety, and lead them to love the Lord their God with all their heart and strength and mind. (W. Thorburn.) Parallel Verses KJV: Train up a child in the way he should go: and when he is old, he will not depart from it.WEB: 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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