Matthew 12:33-37

Good Trees and Good Fruit or Bad Trees and Bad Fruit

33 "Either make the tree good and its fruit [is] good, or make the tree bad and its fruit [is] bad, for the tree is known by its fruit.

34 Offspring of vipers! How are you able to say good things [when you] are evil? For from the abundance of the heart the mouth speaks.

35 The good person from his good treasury brings out good [things], and the evil person from his evil treasury brings out evil [things].

36 But I tell you that every worthless word that they speak, people will give an account for it on the day of judgment!

37 For by your words you will be vindicated, and by your words you will be condemned."

Footnotes

• [a] *Here "[when]" is supplied as a component of the participle ("are") which is understood as temporal
• [b] Literally "the"; the Greek article is used here as a possessive pronoun
• [c] Literally "the"; the Greek article is used here as a possessive pronoun