Matthew 12:34

New American Standard Bible 2020

You offspring of vipers, how can you, being evil, express any good things? For the mouth speaks from that which fills the heart.

Cross References

Psalm 53:1

The fool has said in his heart, “There is no God.” They are corrupt, and have committed abominable injustice; There is no one who does good.

Psalm 64:3

Who have sharpened their tongues like a sword. They aimed bitter speech as their arrows,

Psalm 64:5

They make firm for themselves an evil purpose; They talk of setting snares secretly; They say, “Who can see them?”

Proverbs 16:23

The heart of the wise instructs his mouth And adds persuasiveness to his lips.

Proverbs 4:23

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

Isaiah 32:6

For a fool speaks nonsense, And his heart inclines toward wickedness: To practice ungodliness and to speak error against the Lord, To keep the hungry person unsatisfied And to withhold drink from the thirsty.

Isaiah 59:14

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

Isaiah 59:4

No one sues righteously and no one pleads honestly. They trust in confusion and speak lies; They conceive trouble and give birth to disaster.

Isaiah 9:17

Therefore the Lord does not rejoice over their young 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 foolishness. In spite of all this, His anger does not turn away, And His hand is still stretched out.

Matthew 12:35

The good person brings out of his good treasure good things; and the evil person brings out of his evil treasure evil things.

Matthew 15:18

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

Matthew 23:33

You snakes, you offspring 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 baptism, he said to them, “You offspring 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 offspring of vipers, who warned you to flee from the wrath to come?

Luke 6:45

The good person out of the good treasure of his heart brings forth what is good; and the evil person out of the evil treasure brings forth what is evil; for his mouth speaks from that which fills 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 tells a lie, he speaks from his own nature, because he is a liar and the father of lies.

Ephesians 4:29

Let no unwholesome word come out of your mouth, but if there is any good word for edification according to the need of the moment, say that, so that it will give grace to those who hear.

Ephesians 5:4

and there must be no filthiness or foolish talk, or vulgar joking, 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 rein in the whole body as well.

1 John 3:10

By this the children of God and the children of the devil are obvious: anyone who does not practice righteousness is not of God, nor the one who does not love his brother and sister.

1 Samuel 24:13

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