Proverbs 20:11
Good News Translation
Even children show what they are by what they do; you can tell if they are honest and good.

New Revised Standard Version
Even children make themselves known by their acts, by whether what they do is pure and right.

Contemporary English Version
The good or bad that children do shows what they are like.

New American Bible
In their actions even children can playact though their deeds be blameless and right.

Douay-Rheims Bible
By his inclinations a child is known, if his works be clean and right.

Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

By his inclinations a child is known, if his works be clean and right.

Proverbs 21:8 The perverse way of a man is strange: but as for him that is pure, his work is right.

Proverbs 22:15 Folly is bound up in the heart of a child, and the rod of correction shall drive it away.

Psalm 51:5 For behold I was conceived in iniquities; and in sins did my mother conceive me.

Psalm 58:3 The wicked are alienated from the womb; they have gone astray from the womb: they have spoken false things.

Matthew 7:16 By their fruits you shall know them. Do men gather grapes of thorns, or figs of thistles?

Luke 1:15,66 For he shall be great before the Lord and shall drink no wine nor strong drink: and he shall be filled with the Holy Ghost, even from his mother's womb. . . .

Luke 2:46,47 And it came to pass, that, after three days, they found him in the temple, sitting in the midst of the doctors, hearing them and asking them questions. . . .

Luke 6:43,44 For there is no good tree that bringeth forth evil fruit: nor an evil tree that bringeth forth good fruit. . . .

Context
Wine is a Mocker
10Diverse weights and diverse measures, both are abominable before God. 11By his inclinations a child is known, if his works be clean and right.12The hearing ear, and the seeing eye, the Lord hath made them both.…
Cross References
Matthew 7:16
By their fruits you shall know them. Do men gather grapes of thorns, or figs of thistles?

Proverbs 20:12
The hearing ear, and the seeing eye, the Lord hath made them both.

Proverbs 20:10
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