Isaiah 7:15
Good News Translation
By the time he is old enough to make his own decisions, people will be drinking milk and eating honey.

New Revised Standard Version
He shall eat curds and honey by the time he knows how to refuse the evil and choose the good.

New American Bible
Curds and honey he will eat so that he may learn to reject evil and choose good;

Douay-Rheims Bible
He shall eat butter and honey, that he may know to refuse the evil, and to choose the good.

Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

He shall eat butter and honey, that he may know to refuse the evil, and to choose the good.

butter.

Isaiah 7:22 And for the abundance of milk he shall eat butter: for butter and honey shall every one eat that shall be left in the midst of the land.

Matthew 3:4 And the same John had his garment of camel's hair, and a leathern girdle about his loins: and his meat was locusts and wild honey.

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

Amos 5:15 Hate evil, and love good, and establish judgment in the gate: it may be the Lord the God of hosts may have mercy on the remnant of Joseph.

Luke 1:35 And the angel answering, said to her: The Holy Ghost shall come upon thee and the power of the Most High shall overshadow thee. And therefore also the Holy which shall be born of thee shall be called the Son of God.

Luke 2:40,52 And the child grew and waxed strong, full of wisdom: and the grace of God was in him. . . .

Romans 12:9 Let love be without dissimulation. Hating that which is evil, cleaving to that which is good,

Philippians 1:9,10 And this I pray: That your charity may more and more abound in knowledge and in all understanding: . . .

Context
The Sign of Immanuel
14Therefore the Lord himself shall give you a sign. Behold a virgin shall conceive, and bear a son and his name shall be called Emmanuel. 15He shall eat butter and honey, that he may know to refuse the evil, and to choose the good.16For before the child know to refuse the evil and to choose the good, the land which thou abhorrest shall be forsaken of the face of her two kings.…
Cross References
Genesis 18:8
He took also butter and milk, and the calf which he had boiled, and set before them: but he stood by them under the tree.

Deuteronomy 1:39
Your children, of whom you said that they should be led away captives, and your sons who know not this day the difference of good and evil, they shall go in: and to them I will give the land, and they shall possess it.

Isaiah 7:22
And for the abundance of milk he shall eat butter: for butter and honey shall every one eat that shall be left in the midst of the land.

Isaiah 7:14
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