Matthew 12:34 Cross References - Lamsa

³⁴ O generation of scorpions, how can you speak good things when you are bad? For the mouth speaks from the fullness of the heart.

⁷ But when he saw a great many of the Pharisees and Sadducees who were coming to be baptized, he said to them, O offspring of scorpions, who has warned you to escape from the anger which is to come?

³⁵ A good man brings out good things from good treasures, and a bad man brings out bad things from bad treasures.

¹⁸ But what comes out of the mouth comes out from the heart; and that is what defiles man.

³³ O you serpents, and seed of scorpions! how can you flee from the judgment of hell?

⁷ And he said to the people, who were coming to him to be baptized, O offspring of scorpions, who has warned you to escape from the anger which is coming?

⁴⁵ A good man brings out good things from the good treasure of his heart; and a bad man from the bad treasure of his heart brings out bad things; for from the abundance of the heart the lips speak.

⁴⁴ You are from the father of accusation, and you want to do the lusts of your father, he who is a murderer of men from the very beginning and who never stands by the truth, because there is no truth in him. When he speaks he speaks his own lie, because he is a liar, and the father of it.

¹⁰ As it is written, There is none righteous, no, not one: ¹¹ There are none who understand, there are none who seek after God. ¹² They are all gone astray and they have been rejected: there are none who do good, no, not one. ¹³ Their throats are like open sepulchres; their tongues are deceitful; the venom of asps is under their lips. ¹⁴ Their mouths are full of cursing and bitterness.

²⁹ Let no bad word proceed from your mouth, but words that are good and useful for edification, that they will impart blessing to those who hear them.

⁵ Even so the tongue is a little member, and boasts great things. Likewise, a small fire sets ablaze the large forests. ⁶ The tongue is a fire, and the sinful world like a forest: that very tongue, while it is among our members, can defile our whole body, and set on fire the records of our race which have rolled down from the beginning: and in the end it is consumed by fire. ⁷ For every kind of beasts, and of birds, and of creatures of the sea and of the land are under the subjugation of the will of man. ⁸ But the tongue no man can tame; it is an unruly evil, full of deadly poison.

¹⁰ In this the children of God can be distinguished from the children of the devil: whoever does not practice righteousness and does not love his brother, does not belong to God.