Proverbs 20:11
Even children reveal what they're like by what they do, whether their actions are good and right.
Free Bible Version
In The King James Version
Even a child is known by his doings, whether his work be pure, and whether it be right.
In Context
10The Lord hates both dishonest weights and dishonest measures.
12The Lord made our ears to hear and our eyes to see.
Cross References
2 Chronicles 34:3In the eighth year of his reign, while he was still young, Josiah began to publicly worship the God of David his forefather, and in the twelfth year of his reign he began to cleanse Judah and Jerusalem by removing the high places, the Asherah poles, the carved idols, and the metal images.
Psalms 58:3The wicked are sinners from birth; from the moment they're born they tell lies.
Proverbs 22:15Children are naturally foolish; physical correction helps them to see sense.
Luke 1:15He will be great in the sight of the Lord. He will refuse to drink wine or other alcoholic drink. He will be filled with the Holy Spirit even before he's born.
Luke 2:46It was three days before they found him in the Temple. He was sitting among the religious teachers, listening to them and asking them questions.
Matthew Henry on Proverbs 20:11
10 Divers weights, and divers measures, both of them are alike abomination to the Lord . See here, 1. The various arts of deceiving that men have, all which evils the love of money is the root of. In paying and receiving money, which was then commonly done by the scale, they had divers weights, an under-weight for what they paid and an over-weight for what they received; in delivering out and taking in goods they had divers measures, a scanty measure to sell by and a large measure to buy by. This was done wrong… Read the whole commentary →