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Proverbs 23 · For teachers and parents

Answer Key: Buy the Truth

Answers here are a guide. Welcome any answer that shows a child is thinking about the story, and celebrate their effort. Talk About It questions are open, so they have no set answers.

PreschoolMake Mom and Dad Glad

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Coloring and finding page: any careful coloring is a win. Help your child point to and name each picture above.

KindergartenGlad

GLAD → picture 4TRUTH → picture 3HEART → picture 1MOM → picture 2

Grade 1Buy the Truth

Buy the truth, and don't sell it. → picture 5Riches fly away like an eagle. → picture 1Make your parents glad. → picture 4Fear Yahweh all day long. → picture 2My son, give me your heart. → picture 3

Order:

1. Apply your heart to instruction2. Listen, my son, and be wise, and keep your heart on the right path3. Buy the truth4. Let your father and your mother be glad

Grade 2Make Your Parents Glad

  1. What can fly away like an eagle? Riches (circle)
  2. What should we buy and not sell? The truth (circle)
  3. Who should we let be glad? Our father and mother (circle)
  4. When are our parents happy? When we are wise (circle)
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Grade 3Your Hope Will Not Be Cut Off

  1. What should we not weary ourselves to be? Rich
  2. What should we not envy? Sinners
  3. What will not be cut off? Our hope
  4. What should we get? Wisdom, discipline, and understanding
1: Apply your heart to instruction2: Listen, my son, and be wise, and keep your heart on the right path3: Buy the truth4: Let your father and your mother be glad
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Grade 4Truth Is Worth Buying

  1. What does wealth sprout? Wings like an eagle
  2. Whose fields should we not take? The fatherless
  3. Who is the Defender of the fatherless? God
  4. When will the father's heart be glad? If the son's heart is wise
  5. What does the father ask his son to give? His heart

Word bank: 1. wisdom; 2. God; 3. heart; 4. father

Think About It: answers will vary. Look for answers that connect to the passage.

Grade 5Give Me Your Heart

  1. What should you consider when you sit to eat with a ruler? Diligently what is before you
  2. Who is the Defender of the fatherless? God, who is strong
  3. What should we do instead of envying sinners? Fear Yahweh all day long
  4. How should we treat our mother when she is old? Not despise her
  5. In the New Testament, what does Jesus say about treasure? Where your treasure is, there your heart will be also.
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Think About It: answers will vary. Look for answers that connect to the passage.

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