34-37 “You have minds like a snake pit! How do you suppose what you say is worth anything when you are so foul-minded? It’s your heart, not the dictionary, that gives meaning to your words. A good person produces good deeds and words season after season. An evil person is a blight on the orchard. Let me tell you something: Every one of these careless words is going to come back to haunt you. There will be a time of Reckoning. Words are powerful; take them seriously. Words can be your salvation. Words can also be your damnation.”

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34 You poisonous snakes! How can you evil people say anything good? Your mouth says what comes from inside you.

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34 You snakes! You are evil people, so how can you say anything good? The mouth speaks the things that are in the heart.

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34 You family of snakes! How can you say good things when you are sinful? The mouth speaks what the heart is full of.

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34 You children of snakes, you who are evil—how could you possibly say anything good? For the mouth simply shapes the heart’s impulses into words.

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