11 Even a child (A)makes himself known by his acts,
    by whether his conduct is pure and upright.[a]

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Footnotes

  1. Proverbs 20:11 Or Even a child can dissemble in his actions, though his conduct seems pure and upright

11 Even small children are known by their actions,
    so is their conduct really pure(A) and upright?

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16 You will recognize them (A)by their fruits. Are grapes gathered from thornbushes, or figs from thistles?

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16 By their fruit you will recognize them.(A) Do people pick grapes from thornbushes, or figs from thistles?(B)

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A Tree and Its Fruit

43 “For (A)no good tree bears bad fruit, nor again does a bad tree bear good fruit, 44 for (B)each tree is known by its own fruit. For figs are not gathered from thornbushes, nor are grapes picked from a bramble bush.

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A Tree and Its Fruit(A)

43 “No good tree bears bad fruit, nor does a bad tree bear good fruit. 44 Each tree is recognized by its own fruit.(B) People do not pick figs from thornbushes, or grapes from briers.

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The way of the guilty (A)is crooked,
    but the conduct of the pure is upright.

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The way of the guilty is devious,(A)
    but the conduct of the innocent is upright.

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46 After three days they found him in the temple, (A)sitting among (B)the teachers, listening to them and asking them questions. 47 And all who heard him were amazed at his understanding and his answers.

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46 After three days they found him in the temple courts, sitting among the teachers, listening to them and asking them questions. 47 Everyone who heard him was amazed(A) at his understanding and his answers.

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The wicked are (A)estranged from the womb;
    they go astray from birth, speaking lies.

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Even from birth the wicked go astray;
    from the womb they are wayward, spreading lies.

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15 for he will be (A)great before the Lord. And (B)he must not drink wine or strong (C)drink, and (D)he will be (E)filled with the Holy Spirit, (F)even from his mother's womb.

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15 for he will be great in the sight of the Lord. He is never to take wine or other fermented drink,(A) and he will be filled with the Holy Spirit(B) even before he is born.(C)

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

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Surely I was sinful(A) at birth,(B)
    sinful from the time my mother conceived me.

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

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66 Everyone who heard this wondered about it, asking, “What then is this child going to be?” For the Lord’s hand was with him.(A)

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

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15 Folly is bound up in the heart of a child,
    but the rod of discipline will drive it far away.(A)

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