Matthew 12:36 - English Majority Text Version 2009

³⁶ But I say to you, that for every idle word men may speak, they will give account of it in the day of judgment.

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King James Version (Oxford) 1769

³⁶ But I say unto you, That every idle word that men shall speak, they shall give account thereof in the day of judgment.

Amplified Bible - Classic Edition

³⁶ But I tell you, on the day of judgment men will have to give account for every idle (inoperative, nonworking) word they speak.

American Standard Version (1901)

³⁶ And I say unto you, that every idle word that men shall speak, they shall give account thereof in the day of judgment.

Common English Bible

³⁶ I tell you that people will have to answer on Judgment Day for every useless word they speak.

Catholic Public Domain Version

³⁶ But I say to you, that for every idle word which men will have spoken, they shall render an account in the day of judgment.

Douay-Rheims version of The Bible - 1752 version

³⁶ But I say unto you, that every idle word that men shall speak, they shall render an account for it in the day of judgment.

Matthew 12:36 Cross References

Matthew 10:15

Assuredly I say to you, it will be more tolerable for the land of Sodom and Gomorrah in the day of judgment than for that city!

Matthew 11:22

Nevertheless I say to you, it will be more tolerable for Tyre and Sidon in the day of judgment than for you.

Matthew 12:37

For by your words you shall be justified, and by your words you shall be condemned."

Romans 14:12

So then each of us shall give account concerning himself to God.

Romans 2:16

in the day when God shall judge the secrets of men according to my gospel through Jesus Christ.

James 3:6

And the tongue is a fire, a world of iniquity. Thus the tongue is set among our members, as that which defiles the whole body, and sets on fire the course of nature; and it is set on fire by hell.

Revelation 20:12

And I saw the dead, the great and the small, standing before the throne, and they opened the books. And another book was opened, which is [the Book] of Life. And the dead were judged by the things having been written in the books, according to their works.