Matthew 12:34

English Majority Text Version

Brood of vipers! How can you, being evil, speak good things? For out of the abundance of the heart the mouth speaks.

Cross References

Matthew 12:35

A good man out of his good treasure brings forth good things, and an evil man out of his evil treasure brings forth evil things.

Matthew 15:18

But those things which proceed out of the mouth come from the heart, and they defile a man.

Matthew 23:33

Serpents! Brood of vipers! How shall you escape from the condemnation of hell?

Matthew 3:7

But seeing many of the Pharisees and Sadducees coming to his baptism, he said to them, "Brood of vipers! Who warned you to flee from the coming wrath?

Luke 3:7

Then he said to the crowds which came out to be baptized by him, "Brood of vipers! Who warned you to flee from the coming wrath?

Luke 6:45

A good man out of the good treasure of his heart brings forth that which is good; and an evil man out of the evil treasure of his heart brings forth that which is evil. For out of the abundance of the heart his mouth speaks.

John 8:44

You are of your father the devil, and the lusts of your father you desire 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 tells a lie, he speaks from his own resources, for he is a liar, and the father of lies.

Ephesians 4:29

Let no corrupt word proceed from your mouth, but only what is good for edification, that it may give grace to them that hear.

Ephesians 5:4

neither wickedness, nor foolish talk or coarse jesting, which are not proper, but rather thanksgiving.

James 3:2

For we all stumble in many ways. If anyone does not stumble in word, he is a mature man, able also to bridle the whole body.

1 John 3:10

By this the children of God and the children of the devil are manifest: Everyone who does not practice righteousness is not of God, nor is he who does not love his brother.