34 [a]O generations of vipers, how can you speak good things, when ye are evil? For of the (A)abundance of the heart the mouth speaketh.

35 A good man out of the good treasure of his heart bringeth forth good things: and an evil man out of an evil treasure, bringeth forth evil things.

36 But I say unto you, that of every [b]idle word that men shall speak, they shall give account thereof at the day of judgment.

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Footnotes

  1. Matthew 12:34 Hypocrites at the length betray themselves even by their own mouth.
  2. Matthew 12:36 Vain and unprofitable trifles which the most part of men spend their lives in.

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