Matthew 12:36

Good News Translation

“You can be sure that on the Judgment Day you will have to give account of every useless word you have ever spoken.

Cross References

Ecclesiastes 12:14

God is going to judge everything we do, whether good or bad, even things done in secret.

Matthew 10:15

I assure you that on the Judgment Day God will show more mercy to the people of Sodom and Gomorrah than to the people of that town!

Matthew 11:22

I assure you that on the Judgment Day God will show more mercy to the people of Tyre and Sidon than to you!

Matthew 12:37

Your words will be used to judge you—to declare you either innocent or guilty.”

Romans 14:12

Every one of us, then, will have to give an account to God.

Romans 2:16

And so, according to the Good News I preach, this is how it will be on that Day when God through Jesus Christ will judge the secret thoughts of all.

James 3:6

And the tongue is like a fire. It is a world of wrong, occupying its place in our bodies and spreading evil through our whole being. It sets on fire the entire course of our existence with the fire that comes to it from hell itself.

Revelation 20:12

And I saw the dead, great and small alike, standing before the throne. Books were opened, and then another book was opened, the book of the living. The dead were judged according to what they had done, as recorded in the books.