The great Lawegiver had his eye constantly on the coming generation. It is good

when the children are so arrested by our religious life, that they come to ask us to tell them the reasons that account for it. Seek to live so purely and devoutly, and yet so attractively, that the young people around wil be compelled to inquire after your secret, Luke jini

We are not only to teach the children, but to guard them against forming friendships and making marriage alliances with those who might divert them from God. In the New Testament, Christians are forbidden to marry except “in the Lord,” and equally stringent are prohibitions against worldly intercourse, 1 Cor. 7:39; 2 Cor. 6:14.

God can break the seven-fold power of sin in the heart of those who are absolutely given over to him and are willing to surrender their evil ways. This is pledged to us by his fidelity and love, 7: 8, 9.