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.

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

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

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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.

Additional Translations
Even a young man is known by his actions—whether his conduct is pure and upright.Even a child is known by his doings, whether his work be pure, and whether it be right.

Even a child maketh himself known by his doings, Whether his work be pure, and whether it be right.

A youth when in company with a godly man, will be restrained in his devices, and then his way will be straight.

Even a child is known by his doings, whether his work be pure, and whether it be right.

Even a child maketh himself known by his doings, whether his work be pure, and whether it be right.

Even a child is known by his doings, whether his work is pure, and whether it is right.

Even a child makes himself known by his doings, whether his work is pure, and whether it is right.

Even by his actions a youth maketh himself known, Whether his work be pure or upright.
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