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Matthew 12:35-37
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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.
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But I tell you that everyone will have to give account on the day of judgment for every empty word they have spoken.
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For by your words you will be acquitted, and by your words you will be condemned.”
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Matthew 12:35-37 In-Context
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.
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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.
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But I tell you that everyone will have to give account on the day of judgment for every empty word they have spoken.
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For by your words you will be acquitted, and by your words you will be condemned.”
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Then some of the Pharisees and teachers of the law said to him, “Teacher, we want to see a sign from you.”
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He answered, “A wicked and adulterous generation asks for a sign! But none will be given it except the sign of the prophet Jonah.
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Job 15:6
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Proverbs 10:14
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Proverbs 18:21
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James 3:2
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