The children and I are doing a great project together. I thought of the idea while reading Matthew Henry's commentary on the Online Bible. He has compiled verses under 31 different headings. The children are copying the verses, then looking up any words that intrigue them or that they are unfamiliar with. The younger children are drawing pictures to illustrate the verses. The older ones are doing word studies. We looked up the words that are bold.
The first section is entitled "Of the comfort, or grief, parents have in their children, according as they are wise or foolish, godly or ungodly. We changed it, for the kids' sake, to:
Section I How children make their parents happy or sad
Proverbs 10:1 A wise son makes a glad father,
but a foolish son is a sorrow to his mother.
Pr. 15:20 A wise son makes a glad father,
but a foolish man despises his mother.
Pr. 17:21 He who sires a fool gets himself sorrow,
and the father of a fool has no joy.
Pr. 17:25 A foolish son is a grief to his father
and bitterness to her who bore him.
Pr. 19:13 A foolish son is ruin to his father,
and a wife's quarreling is a continual dripping of rain.
Pr. 19:26 He who does violence to his father and chases away his mother
is a son who brings shame and reproach.
Pr. 23:15-16 My son, if your heart is wise, my heart too will be glad.
16 My inmost being will exult when your lips speak what is right.
Pr. 23:24-25 The father of the righteous will greatly rejoice;
he who fathers a wise son will be glad in him.
25 Let your father and mother be glad; let her who bore you rejoice.
Pr. 27:11 Be wise, my son, and make my heart glad,
that I may answer him who reproaches me.
Pr. 29:3 He who loves wisdom makes his father glad,
but a companion of prostitutes squanders his wealth.
Janet
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