Proverbs 20:11 - Revised Standard Version CI

¹¹ Even a child makes himself known by his acts, whether what he does is pure and right.

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King James Version (Oxford) 1769

¹¹ Even a child is known by his doings, Whether his work be pure, and whether it be right.

Amplified Bible - Classic Edition

¹¹ Even a child is known by his acts, whether [or not] what he does is pure and right.

American Standard Version (1901)

¹¹ Even a child maketh himself known by his doings, Whether his work be pure, and whether it be right.

Common English Bible

¹¹ Even young people are known by their actions, whether their conduct is pure and upright.

Catholic Public Domain Version

¹¹ A child may be understood by his interests: whether his works may be clean and upright.

Proverbs 20:11 Cross References

2 Chronicles 34:3

For in the eighth year of his reign, while he was yet a boy, he began to seek the God of David his father; and in the twelfth year he began to purge Judah and Jerusalem of the high places, the Asherim, and the graven and the molten images.

Psalm 51:5

Behold, I was brought forth in iniquity, and in sin did my mother conceive me.

Psalm 58:3

The wicked go astray from the womb, they err from their birth, speaking lies.

Proverbs 20:12

The hearing ear and the seeing eye, the Lord has made them both.

Proverbs 21:8

The way of the guilty is crooked, but the conduct of the pure is right.

Proverbs 22:15

Folly is bound up in the heart of a child, but the rod of discipline drives it far from him.

Matthew 7:16

You will know them by their fruits. Are grapes gathered from thorns, or figs from thistles?

Luke 1:15

for he will be great before the Lord, and he shall drink no wine nor strong drink, and he will be filled with the Holy Spirit, even from his mother's womb.

Luke 1:66

and all who heard them laid them up in their hearts, saying, “What then will this child be?” For the hand of the Lord was with him.