Parallel Bible results for "matthew 12:33-37"

Matthew 12:33-37

Common English Bible CEB

33 "Either consider the tree good and its fruit good, or consider the tree rotten and its fruit rotten. A tree is known by its fruit.

34 Children of snakes! How can you speak good things while you are evil? What fills the heart comes out of the mouth.

35 Good people bring out good things from their good treasure. But evil people bring out evil things from their evil treasure.

36 I tell you that people will have to answer on Judgment Day for every useless word they speak.

37 By your words you will be either judged innocent or condemned as guilty."

New International Version NIV

33 “Make a tree good and its fruit will be good, or make a tree bad and its fruit will be bad, for a tree is recognized by its fruit.

34 You brood of vipers, how can you who are evil say anything good? For the mouth speaks what the heart is full of.

35 A good man brings good things out of the good stored up in him, and an evil man brings evil things out of the evil stored up in him.

36 But I tell you that everyone will have to give account on the day of judgment for every empty word they have spoken.

37 For by your words you will be acquitted, and by your words you will be condemned.”