Proverbs 20:11 - Revised Version with Apocrypha 1895

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

Douay-Rheims version of The Bible - 1752 version

¹¹ By his inclinations a child is known, if his works be clean and right.

Proverbs 20:11 Cross References

2 Chronicles 34:3

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

Psalm 51:5

Behold, I was shapen in iniquity; And in sin did my mother conceive me.

Psalm 58:3

The wicked are estranged from the womb: They go astray as soon as they be born, speaking lies.

Proverbs 20:12

The hearing ear, and the seeing eye, The LORD hath made even both of them.

Proverbs 21:8

The way of him that is laden with guilt is exceeding crooked: But as for the pure, his work is right.

Proverbs 22:15

Foolishness is bound up in the heart of a child; But the rod of correction shall drive it far from him.

Matthew 7:16

By their fruits ye shall know them. Do men gather grapes of thorns, or figs of thistles?

Luke 1:15

For he shall be great in the sight of the Lord, and he shall drink no wine nor strong drink; and he shall be filled with the Holy Ghost, even from his mother's womb.

Luke 1:66

And all that heard them laid them up in their heart, saying, What then shall this child be? For the hand of the Lord was with him.