34 Brood of vipers! How can you speak good things when you are evil? For the mouth speaks from the overflow(A) of the heart. 35 A good person produces good things from his storeroom of good, and an evil person produces evil things from his storeroom of evil.(B) 36 I tell you that on the day of judgment(C) people will have to account(D) for every careless[a] word they speak.[b]

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Footnotes

  1. 12:36 Lit worthless
  2. 12:36 Lit will speak

34 You brood of vipers,(A) how can you who are evil say anything good? For the mouth speaks(B) what the heart is full of. 35 A good man brings good things out of the good stored up in him, and an evil man brings evil things out of the evil stored up in him. 36 But I tell you that everyone will have to give account on the day of judgment for every empty word they have spoken.

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