Matthew 12:37 Cross References - MKJV

³⁷ For by your words you shall be justified, and by your words you shall be condemned.

³ He who keeps his mouth keeps his life; he who opens his lips wide, it is ruin to him.

²¹ Was not Abraham our father justified by works when he had offered Isaac his son upon the altar? ²² Do you see how faith worked with his works, and from the works faith was made complete? ²³ And the Scripture was fulfilled which says, "Abraham believed God, and it was imputed to him for righteousness, and he was called the friend of God." ²⁴ You see then how a man is justified by works, and not by faith only. ²⁵ And in the same way, was not Rahab the harlot also justified by works when she had received the messengers and had sent them out another way?