Proverbs 20:11

KJV1611 – Modern English

Even a child is known by his deeds, whether his work is pure and right.

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  • Matt 7:16 : 16 You will know them by their fruits. Do men gather grapes from thornbushes or figs from thistles?
  • Prov 21:8 : 8 The way of the guilty is crooked and strange, but as for the pure, his work is right.
  • Prov 22:15 : 15 Foolishness is bound in the heart of a child, but the rod of correction shall drive it far from him.
  • Ps 51:5 : 5 Behold, I was shaped in iniquity, and in sin my mother conceived me.
  • Ps 58:3 : 3 The wicked are estranged from the womb: they go astray as soon as they are born, speaking lies.
  • Luke 6:43-44 : 43 For a good tree does not bring forth corrupt fruit; neither does a corrupt tree bring forth good fruit. 44 For every tree is known by its own fruit. For of thorns men do not gather figs, nor from a bramble bush do they gather grapes.
  • Luke 1:15 : 15 For he will be great in the sight of the Lord, and will drink neither wine nor strong drink; and he will be filled with the Holy Spirit, even from his mother's womb.
  • Luke 1:66 : 66 All those who heard them kept them in their hearts, saying, What kind of child will this be? And the hand of the Lord was with him.
  • Luke 2:46-47 : 46 And it happened, 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 all who heard him were amazed at his understanding and answers.

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    9Who can say, I have made my heart clean, I am pure from my sin?

    10Diverse weights and diverse measures, both of them are alike an abomination to the LORD.

  • Prov 21:8
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    8The way of the guilty is crooked and strange, but as for the pure, his work is right.

  • Prov 22:6
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    6Train up a child in the way he should go, and when he is old, he will not depart from it.

  • Prov 10:9
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    9He who walks uprightly walks surely, but he who perverts his ways shall be known.

  • Prov 20:7
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    7The just man walks in his integrity; his children are blessed after him.

  • 1 John 3:7
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    7Little children, let no one deceive you: he who does righteousness is righteous, just as he is righteous.

  • Prov 20:12
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    12The hearing ear, and the seeing eye, the LORD has made both of them.

  • Eccl 12:14
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    14For God will bring every work into judgment, with every secret thing, whether it is good, or whether it is evil.

  • Job 21:19
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    19God lays up iniquity for his children; He rewards him, and he shall know it.

  • Prov 21:2
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    2Every way of a man is right in his own eyes, but the LORD weighs the hearts.

  • Prov 5:21
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    21For the ways of man are before the eyes of the LORD, and He ponders all his paths.

  • Prov 24:12
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    12If you say, Behold, we did not know this; does not he who ponders the heart consider it? And he who keeps your soul, does he not know it? And shall he not render to every man according to his works?

  • Prov 16:11
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    11A just weight and balance are the LORD's; all the weights in the bag are His work.

  • Matt 7:20
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    20Therefore, by their fruits you will know them.

  • Jer 17:10
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    10I the LORD search the heart, I test the mind, even to give every man according to his ways, and according to the fruit of his deeds.

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    18The wicked works a deceitful work, but he who sows righteousness shall have a sure reward.

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    1A false balance is an abomination to the LORD, but an accurate weight is His delight.

  • Prov 20:23-24
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    23Diverse weights are an abomination to the LORD, and a false balance is not good.

    24A man's steps are of the LORD; how then can a man understand his own way?

  • Prov 22:15
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    15Foolishness is bound in the heart of a child, but the rod of correction shall drive it far from him.

  • Ezek 18:14
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    14Now, if he begets a son who sees all his father's sins which he has done, and considers and does not do such like,

  • Prov 30:12
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    12There is a generation that is pure in their own eyes and yet is not cleansed from their filthiness.

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    6Better is the poor who walks in his integrity than he who is perverse in his ways, though he be rich.

  • Isa 7:16
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    16For before the child shall know to refuse the evil and choose the good, the land that you abhor shall be forsaken by both her kings.

  • Prov 16:2
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    2All the ways of a man are pure in his own eyes; but the LORD weighs the spirits.

  • Ps 18:26
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  • Prov 2:9
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    3The eyes of the LORD are in every place, watching the evil and the good.

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    2A good man obtains favor from the LORD, but a man of wicked plans will He condemn.

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    15He who justifies the wicked, and he who condemns the just, both of them are an abomination to the LORD.

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