11 Even a child is (A)known by his deeds,
Whether what he does is pure and right.

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

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16 (A)You will know them by their fruits. (B)Do men gather grapes 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 Is Known by Its Fruit(A)

43 (B)“For a good tree does not bear bad fruit, nor does a bad tree bear good fruit. 44 For (C)every tree is known by its own fruit. For men do not gather figs from thorns, nor do they gather grapes 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 [a]a guilty man is perverse;
But as for the pure, his work is right.

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Footnotes

  1. Proverbs 21:8 Or The way of a man is perverse and strange;

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

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46 Now so it was that after three days they found Him in the temple, sitting in the midst of the teachers, both listening to them and asking them questions. 47 And (A)all who heard Him were astonished at His understanding and 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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(A)The wicked are estranged from the womb;
They go astray as soon as they are born, 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 in the sight of the Lord, and (B)shall drink neither wine nor strong drink. He will also be filled with the Holy Spirit, (C)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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(A)Behold, I was brought forth in iniquity,
And in sin my mother conceived 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 those who heard them (A)kept them in their hearts, saying, “What kind of child will this be?” And (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 Foolishness is bound up in the heart of a child;
(A)The rod of correction will drive 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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