Proverbs 20:11

World English Bible (2000)

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

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Referenced Verses

  • Matt 7:16 : 16 By their fruits you will know them. Do you gather grapes from thorns, or figs from thistles?
  • Prov 21:8 : 8 The way of the guilty is devious, but the conduct of the innocent is upright.
  • Prov 22:15 : 15 Folly is bound up in the heart of a child: the rod of discipline drives it far from him.
  • Ps 51:5 : 5 Behold, I was brought forth in iniquity. In sin my mother conceived me.
  • Ps 58:3 : 3 The wicked go astray from the womb. They are wayward as soon as they are born, speaking lies.
  • Luke 6:43-44 : 43 For there is no good tree that brings forth rotten fruit; nor again a rotten tree that brings forth good fruit. 44 For each tree is known by its own fruit. For people don't gather figs from thorns, nor do they gather grapes from a bramble bush.
  • Luke 1:15 : 15 For he will be great in the sight of the Lord, and he will drink no wine nor strong drink. He will be filled with the Holy Spirit, even from his mother's womb.
  • Luke 1:66 : 66 All who heard them laid them up in their heart, saying, "What then will this child be?" The hand of the Lord was with him.
  • Luke 2:46-47 : 46 It happened 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 All who heard him were amazed at his understanding and his answers.

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    9 Who can say, "I have made my heart pure. I am clean and without sin?"

    10 Differing weights and differing measures, both of them alike are an abomination to Yahweh.

  • Prov 21:8
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    8 The way of the guilty is devious, but the conduct of the innocent is upright.

  • Prov 22:6
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    6 Train 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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    9 He who walks blamelessly walks surely, but he who perverts his ways will be found out.

  • Prov 20:7
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    7 A righteous man walks in integrity. Blessed are his children after him.

  • 1 John 3:7
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    7 Little children, let no one lead you astray. He who does righteousness is righteous, even as he is righteous.

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

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

  • Job 21:19
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    19 You say, 'God lays up his iniquity for his children.' Let him recompense it to himself, that he may know it.

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

  • Prov 5:21
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    21 For the ways of man are before the eyes of Yahweh. He examines all his paths.

  • Prov 24:12
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    12 If you say, "Behold, we didn't know this;" doesn't he who weighs the hearts consider it? He who keeps your soul, doesn't he know it? Shall he not render to every man according to his work?

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    11 Honest balances and scales are Yahweh's; all the weights in the bag are his work.

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

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    10 I, Yahweh, search the mind, I try the heart, even to give every man according to his ways, according to the fruit of his doings.

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    18 Wicked people earn deceitful wages, but one who sows righteousness reaps a sure reward.

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    1 A false balance is an abomination to Yahweh, but accurate weights are his delight.

  • Prov 20:23-24
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    23 Yahweh detests differing weights, and dishonest scales are not pleasing.

    24 A man's steps are from Yahweh; how then can man understand his way?

  • Prov 22:15
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    15 Folly is bound up in the heart of a child: the rod of discipline drives it far from him.

  • Ezek 18:14
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    14 Now, behold, if he fathers a son, who sees all his father's sins, which he has done, and fears, and does not such like;

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

  • 1 John 2:29
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    29 If you know that he is righteous, you know that everyone who practices righteousness is born of him.

  • Prov 28:6
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    6 Better is the poor who walks in his integrity, than he who is perverse in his ways, and he is rich.

  • Isa 7:16
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    16 For before the child knows to refuse the evil, and choose the good, the land whose two kings you abhor shall be forsaken.

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    2 All the ways of a man are clean in his own eyes; but Yahweh weighs the motives.

  • Ps 18:26
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    26 With the pure, you will show yourself pure. With the crooked you will show yourself shrewd.

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    20 Those who are perverse in heart are an abomination to Yahweh, but those whose ways are blameless are his delight.

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    27 With the pure you will show yourself pure. With the crooked you will show yourself shrewd.

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    15 The rod of correction gives wisdom, but a child left to himself causes shame to his mother.

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    21 "For his eyes are on the ways of a man. He sees all his goings.

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    3 Yahweh's eyes are everywhere, keeping watch on the evil and the good.

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    2 A good man shall obtain favor from Yahweh, but he will condemn a man of wicked devices.

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    21 He who pampers his servant from youth will have him become a son in the end.