Matthew 12:34 Cross References - Moffatt

³⁴ You brood of vipers, how can you speak good when you are evil? For the mouth utters what the heart is full of.

⁷ But when he noticed a number of the Pharisees and Sadducees coming for his baptism, he said to them, "You brood of vipers, who told you to flee from the coming Wrath?

³⁵ The good man brings good out of his good store, and the evil man brings evil out of his store of evil.

¹⁸ while what comes out of the mouth comes from the heart — and that is what defiles a man.

³³ You serpents! you brood of vipers! how can you escape being sentenced to Gehenna?

⁷ To the crowds who came out to get baptized by him John said, "You brood of vipers, who told you to flee from the coming Wrath?

⁴⁵ The good man produces good from the good stored in his heart, and the evil man evil from his evil: for a man's mouth utters what his heart is full of.

⁴⁴ You belong to your father the devil, and you want to do what your father desires; he was a slayer of men from the very beginning, and he has no place in the truth because there is no truth in him: when he tells a lie, he is expressing his own nature, for he is a liar and the father of lies.

¹⁰ as it is written, None is righteous, no, not one; ¹¹ no one understands, no one seeks for God. ¹² All have swerved, one and all have gone wrong, no one does good, not a single one. ¹³ Their throat is an open grave, they are treacherous with their tongues, the venom of an asp lies under their lips. ¹⁴ Their mouth is full of cursing and bitterness,

²⁹ Let no bad word pass your lips, but only such speech as is good for edification, as occasion may require, words that are gracious and a means of grace to those who hear them.

⁵ So the tongue is a small member of the body, but it can boast of great exploits. What a forest is set ablaze by a little spark of fire! ⁶ And the tongue is a fire, the tongue proves a very world of mischief among our members, staining the whole of the body and setting fire to the round circle of existence with a flame fed by hell. ⁷ For while every kind of beast and bird, of creeping animals and creatures marine, is tameable and has been tamed by mankind, ⁸ no man can tame the tongue — plague of disorder that it is, full of deadly venom!

¹⁰ Here is how the children of God and the children of the devil are recognized; anyone who does not practise righteousness does not belong to God, and neither does he who has no love for his brother.