Matthew 12:34

Legacy Standard Bible

You brood of vipers, how can you, being evil, speak what is good? For the mouth speaks out of that which fills the heart.

Cross References

Psalm 53:1

The wicked fool says in his heart, “There is no God,” They act corruptly, and commit abominable injustice; There is no one who does good.

Psalm 64:3

Who have sharpened their tongue like a sword. They aimed bitter speech as their arrow,

Psalm 64:5

They hold fast to themselves an evil purpose; They talk of laying snares secretly; They say, “Who can see them?”

Proverbs 16:23

The heart of the wise gives insight to his mouth And increases learning to his lips.

Proverbs 4:23

Guard your heart with all diligence, For from it flow the springs of life.

Isaiah 32:6

For a wicked fool speaks wicked folly, And his heart does wickedness: To do ungodliness and to speak error against Yahweh, In order to make the hungry person empty; He even causes the thirsty to lack a drink.

Isaiah 59:14

Justice is turned back, And righteousness stands far away; For truth has stumbled in the street, And rightness cannot enter.

Isaiah 59:4

No one calls in righteousness, and no one seeks justice in truth. They trust in confusion and speak worthlessness; They conceive trouble and give birth to wickedness.

Isaiah 9:17

Therefore the Lord is not glad in their choice men, Nor does He have compassion on their orphans or their widows; For every one of them is godless and an evildoer, And every mouth is speaking wicked foolishness. In spite of all this, His anger does not turn back, And His hand is still stretched out.

Matthew 12:35

The good man brings out of his good treasure what is good; and the evil man brings out of his evil treasure what is evil.

Matthew 15:18

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

Matthew 23:33

You serpents, you brood of vipers, how will you escape the sentence of hell?

Matthew 3:7

But when he saw many of the Pharisees and Sadducees coming for his baptism, he said to them, “You brood of vipers, who warned you to flee from the wrath to come?

Luke 3:7

So he was saying to the crowds who were going out to be baptized by him, “You brood of vipers, who warned you to flee from the wrath to come?

Luke 6:45

The good man out of the good treasure of his heart brings forth what is good; and the evil man out of the evil treasure brings forth what is evil. For his mouth speaks from the abundance of his heart.

John 8:44

You are of your father the devil, and you want to do the desires of your father. He was a murderer from the beginning, and does not stand in the truth because there is no truth in him. Whenever he speaks a lie, he speaks from his own nature, for he is a liar and the father of lies.

Ephesians 4:29

Let no unwholesome word proceed from your mouth, but only such a word as is good for building up what is needed, so that it will give grace to those who hear.

Ephesians 5:4

nor filthiness and foolish talk, or coarse jesting, which are not fitting, but rather giving of thanks.

James 3:2

For we all stumble in many ways. If anyone does not stumble in what he says, he is a perfect man, able to bridle the entire body as well.

1 John 3:10

By this the children of God and the children of the devil are manifested: everyone who does not do righteousness is not of God, as well as the one who does not love his brother.

1 Samuel 24:13

As the proverb of the ancients says, ‘Out of the wicked comes forth wickedness’; but my hand shall not be against you.