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

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

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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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16 Ye shall know them by their fruits. Do men gather grapes of thorns, or figs of thistles?

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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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43 For a good tree bringeth not forth corrupt fruit; neither doth a corrupt tree bring forth good fruit.

44 For every tree is known by his own fruit. For of thorns men do not gather figs, nor of a bramble bush gather they grapes.

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

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The way of man is froward and strange: but as for the pure, his work is right.

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

47 And all that heard him were astonished at his understanding and answers.

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

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

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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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15 For he shall be great in the sight of the Lord, and shall drink neither wine nor strong drink; and he shall be filled with the Holy Ghost, even from his mother's womb.

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

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

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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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66 And all they that heard them laid them up in their hearts, saying, What manner of child shall this be! And the hand of the Lord was with 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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15 Foolishness is bound in the heart of a child; but the rod of correction shall drive it far from him.

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