Matthew 12:34 - The Scriptures 2009

³⁴ “Brood of adders! How are you able to speak what is good – being wicked? For the mouth speaks from the overflow of the heart.

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King James Version (Oxford) 1769

³⁴ O generation of vipers, how can ye, being evil, speak good things? for out of the abundance of the heart the mouth speaketh.

Amplified Bible - Classic Edition

³⁴ You offspring of vipers! How can you speak good things when you are evil (wicked)? For out of the fullness (the overflow, the superabundance) of the heart the mouth speaks.

American Standard Version (1901)

³⁴ Ye offspring of vipers, how can ye, being evil, speak good things? for out of the abundance of the heart the mouth speaketh.

Common English Bible

³⁴ Children of snakes! How can you speak good things while you are evil? What fills the heart comes out of the mouth.

Catholic Public Domain Version

³⁴ Progeny of vipers, how are you able to speak good things while you are evil? For out of the abundance of the heart, the mouth speaks.

Douay-Rheims version of The Bible - 1752 version

³⁴ O generation of vipers, how can you speak good things, whereas you are evil? for out of the abundance of the heart the mouth speaketh.

Matthew 12:34 Cross References

Psalm 53:1

The fool has said in his heart, “There is no Elohim.” They have done corruptly, And they have done abominable unrighteousness; No one does good.

Psalm 64:3

Who sharpen their tongue like a sword, And aim their arrows, a bitter word,

Psalm 64:5

They arm themselves with an evil word; They talk of hiding snares; They have said, “Who sees them?”

Proverbs 16:23

The heart of the wise gives discretion to his mouth, And he increases learning to his lips.

Proverbs 4:23

Watch over your heart with all diligence, For out of it are the sources of life.

Isaiah 32:6

for a fool speaks folly, and his heart works wickedness: to practise filthiness, and to speak against יהוה that which misleads, to starve the being of the hungry, and to withhold the drink from the thirsty.

Isaiah 59:14

And right-ruling is driven back, and righteousness stands far off. For truth has fallen in the street, and right is unable to enter.

Isaiah 59:4

No one calls for righteousness, and no one pleads for truth. They trust in emptiness and speak worthlessness; they conceive trouble and bring forth wickedness.

Isaiah 9:17

Therefore יהוה does not rejoice over their young men, and has no compassion on their fatherless and widows; for everyone is defiled and evil, and every mouth speaks foolishness. With all this His displeasure has not turned back, and His hand is still stretched out.

Matthew 12:35

“The good man brings forth what is good from the good treasures of his heart, and the wicked man brings forth what is wicked from the wicked treasure.

Matthew 15:18

“But what comes out of the mouth comes from the heart, and these defile the man.

Matthew 23:33

“Serpents, brood of adders! How would you escape the judgment of GĕHinnom?

Matthew 3:7

And seeing many of the Pharisees and Sadducees coming to his immersion, he said to them, “Brood of adders! Who has warned you to flee from the coming wrath?

Luke 3:7

He said therefore to the crowds that came out to be immersed by him, “Brood of adders, who warned you to flee from the wrath to come?

Luke 6:45

“The good man brings forth what is good out of the good treasure of his heart, and the wicked man brings forth what is wicked out of the wicked treasure of his heart. For out of the overflow of the heart his mouth speaks.

John 8:44

“You are of your father the devil, and the desires of your father you wish to do. He was a murderer from the beginning, and has not stood in the truth, because there is no truth in him. When he speaks the lie, he speaks of his own, for he is a liar and the father of it.

Ephesians 4:29

Let no corrupt word come out of your mouth, but only such as is good for the use of building up, so as to impart what is pleasant to the hearers.

Ephesians 5:4

neither filthiness, nor foolish talking, nor coarse jesting, which are not fitting, but rather thanksgiving.

James 3:2

For we all stumble in many matters. If anyone does not stumble in word, he is a perfect man, able also to bridle the entire body.

1 John 3:10

In this the children of Elohim and the children of the devil are manifest: Everyone not doing righteousness is not of Elohim, neither the one not loving his brother.

1 Samuel 24:13

“As the proverb of the ancients says, ‘Wrong comes from the wrongdoer.’ But my hand is not against you.