34 Offspring of vipers! How are you able to say good things when you[a] are evil? For from the abundance of the heart the mouth speaks. 35 The good person from his[b] good treasury brings out good things, and the evil person from his[c] evil treasury brings out evil things. 36 But I tell you that every worthless word that they speak, people will give an account for it on the day of judgment!

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Footnotes

  1. Matthew 12:34 Here “when” is supplied as a component of the participle (“are”) which is understood as temporal
  2. Matthew 12:35 Literally “the”; the Greek article is used here as a possessive pronoun
  3. Matthew 12:35 Literally “the”; the Greek article is used here as a possessive pronoun