¹¹ Even by his actions a youth maketh himself known, Whether his work be pure or upright.

¹⁶ From their fruits ye shall know them; do `men' gather from thorns grapes? or from thistles figs?

⁸ Froward `is' the way of a man who is vile, And the pure -- upright `is' his work.

⁵ Lo, in iniquity I have been brought forth, And in sin doth my mother conceive me.

³ The wicked have been estranged from the womb, They have erred from the belly, speaking lies.

¹⁵ Folly is bound up in the heart of a youth, The rod of chastisement putteth it far from him.

⁴³ `For there is not a good tree making bad fruit, nor a bad tree making good fruit;

⁴⁴ for each tree from its own fruit is known, for not from thorns do they gather figs, nor from a bramble do they crop a grape.

¹⁵ for he shall be great before the Lord, and wine and strong drink he may not drink, and of the Holy Spirit he shall be full, even from his mother's womb;

⁶⁶ and all who heard did lay them up in their hearts, saying, `What then shall this child be?' and the hand of the Lord was with him.

⁴⁶ And it came to pass, after three days, they found him in the temple, sitting in the midst of the teachers, both hearing them and questioning them,

⁴⁷ and all those hearing him were astonished at his understanding and answers.