Children Turn Out Badly Sometimes in Spite of Our Efforts:

What if some prove [wicked] that are well brought up? It is not the generality of them. Will you say that Noah’s family was no better than the drowned world, because there was one Ham in it; nor David’s, because there was one Absalom; nor Christ’s, because there was one Judas?

-Richard Baxter

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Genesis 9:18–25

2 Samuel 13:28–29; 15:1–12

Ezekiel 18:20