Matthew 12:36

Geneva Bible (1560)

But I say vnto you, that of euery idle word that men shall speake, they shall giue account thereof at the day of iudgement.

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  • Eccl 12:14 : 14 For God will bring euery worke vnto iudgement, with euery secret thing, whether it be good or euill.
  • Jude 1:14-15 : 14 And Enoch also the seuenth from Adam, prophecied of such, saying, Beholde, the Lorde commeth with thousands of his Saints, 15 To giue iudgement against al men, and to rebuke all the vngodly among them of all their wicked deeds, which they haue vngodly committed, and of all their cruel speakings, which wicked sinners haue spoken against him.
  • Rev 20:12 : 12 And I saw the dead, both great & small stand before God: and the bookes were opened, & another booke was opened, which is the booke of life, & the dead were iudged of those thinges, which were written in the bookes, according to their woorkes.
  • Rom 2:16 : 16 At the day when God shall iudge the secretes of men by Iesus Christ, according to my Gospel.

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  • 37 For by thy wordes thou shalt be iustified, and by thy wordes thou shalt be condemned.

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    31 Wherefore I say vnto you, euery sinne and blasphemie shalbe forgiuen vnto men: but the blasphemie against the holy Ghost shall not be forgiuen vnto men.

    32 And whosoeuer shall speake a word against the Sonne of man, it shall be forgiuen him: but whosoeuer shall speake against the holy Ghost, it shall not be forgiuen him, neither in this worlde, nor in the worlde to come.

    33 Either make the tree good, and his fruite good: or els make the tree euill, and his fruite euil: for the tree is knowen by the fruite.

    34 O generations of vipers, howe can you speake good things, when ye are euill? For of the abundance of the heart the mouth speaketh.

    35 A good man out of the good treasure of his heart bringeth foorth good things: & an euill man out of an euill treasure, bringeth forth euill things.

  • 14 For God will bring euery worke vnto iudgement, with euery secret thing, whether it be good or euill.

  • Luke 6:45-46
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    45 A good man out of the good treasure of his heart bringeth foorth good, and an euill man out of the euill treasure of his heart bringeth foorth euill: for of the aboundance of the heart his mouth speaketh.

    46 But why call ye me Lord, Lord, and do not the things that I speake?

  • 12 So then euery one of vs shall giue accounts of himselfe to God.

  • Luke 12:2-3
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    2 For there is nothing couered, that shall not bee reueiled: neither hidde, that shall not be knowen.

    3 Wherefore whatsoeuer yee haue spoken in darkenesse, it shall be heard in the light: and that which ye haue spoken in the eare, in secret places, shall be preached on the houses.

  • 12 So speake ye, and so doe, as they that shal be iudged by the Lawe of libertie.

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    18 But those thinges which proceede out of the mouth, come from the heart, and they defile the man.

    19 For out of the heart come euil thoughts, murders, adulteries, fornications, thefts, false testimonies, slaunders.

  • 12 For the holy Ghost shall teache you in the same houre, what yee ought to say.

  • 6 Let no man deceiue you with vaine wordes: for, for such thinges commeth the wrath of God vpon the children of disobedience.

  • 6 Who wil reward euery man according to his woorkes:

  • 48 He that refuseth me, and receiueth not my wordes, hath one that iudgeth him: the worde that I haue spoken, it shall iudge him in the last day.

  • 37 But let your communication be Yea, yea: Nay, nay. For whatsoeuer is more then these, commeth of euill.

  • 2 (5:1) Be not rash with thy mouth, nor let thine heart be hastie to vtter a thing before God: for God is in the heauens, and thou art on the earth: therefore let thy wordes be fewe.

  • 10 And whosoeuer shall speake a woorde against the Sonne of man, it shall be forgiuen him: but vnto him, that shal blaspheme ye holy Ghost, it shall not be forgiuen.

  • 11 But when they leade you, & deliuer you vp, be not carefull before hand, neither studie what ye shall say: but what is giuen you at the same time, that speake: for it is not ye that speake, but the holy Ghost.

  • 12 But before all thinges, my brethren, sweare not, neither by heauen, nor by earth, nor by any other othe: but let your yea, be yea, and your nay, nay, lest ye fall into condemnation.

  • 14 A man shalbe satiate with good things by the fruite of his mouth, and the recompence of a mans hands shall God giue vnto him.

  • 19 In many wordes there cannot want iniquitie: but he that refrayneth his lippes, is wise.

  • 6 Thine owne mouth condemneth thee, and not I, and thy lippes testifie against thee.

  • 4 Either if any sweare and pronounce with his lippes to do euill, or to doe good (whatsoeuer it bee that a man shall pronounce with an othe) and it be hid from him, and after knoweth that he hath offended in one of these poyntes,

  • 30 The mouth of the righteous will speake of wisedome, and his tongue will talke of iudgement.

  • 21 (7:23) Giue not thine heart also to all ye wordes that men speake, lest thou doe heare thy seruant cursing thee.

  • Matt 5:21-22
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    21 Ye haue heard that it was sayd vnto them of the olde time, Thou shalt not kill: for whosoeuer killeth shalbe culpable of iudgement.

    22 But I say vnto you, whosoeuer is angry with his brother vnaduisedly, shalbe culpable of iudgment; whosoeuer sayth vnto his brother, Raca, shalbe worthy to be punished by the Councill; whosoeuer shall say, Foole, shalbe worthy to be punished with hell fire.

  • 5 Which shall giue accounts to him, that is readie to iudge quicke and dead.

  • 6 (5:5) Suffer not thy mouth to make thy flesh to sinne: neither say before the Angel, that this is ignorance: wherefore shall God bee angry by thy voyce, and destroy the worke of thine hands?

  • Matt 7:1-2
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    1 Ivdge not, that ye be not iudged.

    2 Eor with what iudgement ye iudge, ye shall be iudged, and with what measure ye mete, it shall be measured to you againe.

  • 3 The wordes of his mouth are iniquitie and deceit: hee hath left off to vnderstand and to doe good.

  • 37 And those things that I say vnto you, I say vnto all men, Watch.

  • 11 That which goeth into the mouth, defileth not the man, but that which commeth out of the mouth, that defileth the man.

  • 2 They speake deceitfully euery one with his neighbour, flattering with their lips, and speake with a double heart.

  • 21 Death & life are in the power of ye tongue, and they that loue it, shal eate the fruite thereof.

  • 37 Iudge not, and ye shal not be iudged: condemne not, and ye shall not bee condemned: forgiue, and ye shalbe forgiuen.

  • Matt 7:19-20
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    19 Euery tree that bringeth not forth good fruite, is hewen downe, and cast into the fire.

    20 Therefore by their fruites ye shall knowe them.

  • 8 Thou shalt vomit thy morsels that thou hast eaten, and thou shalt lose thy sweete wordes.

  • 40 Be ye also prepared therefore: for the Sonne of man will come at an houre when ye thinke not.

  • 2 A man shall eate good things by the fruite of his mouth: but the soule of the trespassers shall suffer violence.

  • 19 Wherefore my deare brethren, let euery man be swift to heare, slowe to speake, and slowe to wrath.

  • 6 Put nothing vnto his wordes, least he reproue thee, and thou be found a lyar.