Matthew 12:37 Cross References - MNT

³⁷ "For by your words you will each be justified, and by your words be condemned."

²¹ Was not Abraham our ancestor justified by deeds, in that he offered up Isaac, his son, upon the altar? ²² You see how faith was cooperating with deeds, and faith was made perfect by deeds. ²³ And the Scripture was fulfilled which said, And Abraham believed God, and this was imputed to him as righteousness, and he was called God's friend. ²⁴ You see, then, that it is by his deeds a man is justified, and not simply by his faith. ²⁵ In like manner was not Rahab, the harlot, justified by her deeds, in the fact that she received the messengers and sent them forth by another way?