Matthew 12:36 - Revised Standard Version (RSV-CI)

³⁶ I tell you, on the day of judgment men will render account for every careless word they utter;

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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

Ecclesiastes 12:14

For God will bring every deed into judgment, with every secret thing, whether good or evil.

Matthew 10:15

Truly, I say to you, it shall be more tolerable on the day of judgment for the land of Sodom and Gomorrah than for that town.

Matthew 11:22

But I tell you, it shall be more tolerable on the day of judgment for Tyre and Sidon than for you.

Matthew 12:37

for by your words you will be justified, and by your words you will be condemned.”

Romans 14:12

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

Romans 2:16

on that day when, according to my gospel, God judges the secrets of men by Christ Jesus.

James 3:6

And the tongue is a fire. The tongue is an unrighteous world among our members, staining the whole body, setting on fire the cycle of nature, and set on fire by hell.

Revelation 20:12

And I saw the dead, great and small, standing before the throne, and books were opened. Also another book was opened, which is the book of life. And the dead were judged by what was written in the books, by what they had done.