New Revised Standard Version
Even children make themselves known by their acts, by whether what they do is pure and right.

Contemporary English Version
The good or bad that children do shows what they are like.

New American Bible
In their actions even children can playact though their deeds be blameless and right.

Douay-Rheims Bible
By his inclinations a child is known, if his works be clean and right.

By his inclinations a child is known, if his works be clean and right.

Proverbs 21:8 The perverse way of a man is strange: but as for him that is pure, his work is right.

Proverbs 22:15 Folly is bound up in the heart of a child, and the rod of correction shall drive it away.

Psalm 51:5 For behold I was conceived in iniquities; and in sins did my mother conceive me.

Psalm 58:3 The wicked are alienated from the womb; they have gone astray from the womb: they have spoken false things.

Matthew 7:16 By their fruits you shall know them. Do men gather grapes of thorns, or figs of thistles?

Luke 1:15,66 For he shall be great before the Lord and shall drink no wine nor strong drink: and he shall be filled with the Holy Ghost, even from his mother's womb. . . .

Luke 2:46,47 And it came to pass, that, after three days, they found him in the temple, sitting in the midst of the doctors, hearing them and asking them questions. . . .

Luke 6:43,44 For there is no good tree that bringeth forth evil fruit: nor an evil tree that bringeth forth good fruit. . . .