To the overseer upon the stringed instrument: instruction to David. The fool said in his heart, No God. They were corrupted; they made iniquity abominable: none doing good.
Matthew 12:34 - Julia E. Smith Translation 1876 O generation of vipers! how can ye speak good things, being evil? for out of the abundance of the heart the month speaks. Tuilleadh leaganachaKing James Version (Oxford) 1769 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 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) 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 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 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 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. |
To the overseer upon the stringed instrument: instruction to David. The fool said in his heart, No God. They were corrupted; they made iniquity abominable: none doing good.
Who sharpened as a sword their tongue, they bent their arrows a bitter word:
They will strengthen to themselves an evil word: they will recount to hide snares; they said, Who shall see them
The heart of the wise shall attend to his mouth, and he shall add knowledge to his lips.
Guard thy heart with all watching, for from it the goings forth of life.
For the foolish will speak folly, and his heart will do vanity to do profaneness and to speak error to Jehovah, to empty the soul of the hungry; and he will cause the drink of the thirsty to fail.
And judgment was turned away behind, and justice shall stand from far off: for truth fainted in the street, and right will not be able to come in.
None called upon justice, and none judged in truth: trusting in vanity and speaking evil, they conceived labor and brought forth vanity.
For this upon their young men Jehovah shall not rejoice, and their orphans and their widows he will not compassionate; for they all are polluted and doing evil, and every mouth speaking folly. In all this his anger turned not back, and yet his hand stretched out
The good man, out of the good treasure of the heart, casts forth good things: and the evil man, out of the evil treasure, casts forth evil things.
But the things going forth out of the mouth come from the heart, and these pollute the man.
Serpents, generations of vipers, how would ye flee from the judgment of hell?
And seeing many of the Pharisees and Sadducees coming to his immersion, he said to them, O generation of vipers, who has indicated to you to flee from the wrath about to come?
Then said he to the crowds coming out to he immersed by him, Generation of vipers, who indicated to you to flee from the anger about to come
The good man out of the good treasure of his heart, brings forward the good thing; and the evil man out of the evil treasure of his heart, brings forward the evil thing: for out of the abundance of the heart does his month speak.
Ye are of your father the devil, and the eager desires of your father will ye do. He was slaying men from the beginning, and stood not in the truth, for there is no truth in him. When he would speak a lie, he speaks of his own things; for he is a liar, and the father of him.
Let not any foul word go out of your mouth, but if any good to the building of necessity, that it might give grace to them hearing.
And obscenity, and silly discourse, or wit, which things concern not; but rather thankfulness.
For in many things we all stumble. If any stumble not in word, this a perfect man, able to govern by a bridle also the whole body.
In this the children of God are manifest, and the children of the accuser: every one not doing justice is not of God, and he not loving his brother.
As the ancient parable will say, Injustice will go forth from the unjust; and my hand shall not be upon thee.