34 Ye brood of vipers, how can ye, being evil, speak good things? For out of the abundance of the heart the mouth speaketh.
Matthew 12:34 Cross References - Wesley
Matthew 3:7
7 But seeing many of the Pharisees and Sadducees coming to his baptism, he said to them, Ye serpents, ye brood of vipers, who hath warned you to flee from the wrath to come?
Matthew 12:35
35 A good man out of the good treasure bringeth forth good things: and an evil man out of the evil treasure bringeth forth evil things.
Matthew 15:18
18 But those things which proceed out of the mouth, come out of the heart, and they defile the man.
Matthew 23:33
33 how can ye escape the damnation of hell?
Luke 3:7
7 that came forth to be baptized of him, Ye brood of vipers, who hath warned you to flee from the wrath to come?
Luke 6:45
45 A good man, out of the good treasure of his heart, bringeth forth that which is good; and an evil man, out of the evil treasure of his heart, bringeth forth that which is evil; for of the abundance of the heart the mouth speaketh.
John 8:44
44 Ye are of your father the devil, and your will is, to do the desires of your father. He was a murderer from the beginning, and abode not in the truth; for there is no truth in him. When he speaketh a lie, he speaketh of his own; for he is a liar, and the father of it.
Romans 3:10-14
10 As it is written, There is none righteous, no not one.
11 There is none that understandeth; there is none that seeketh after God.
12 They have all turned aside; they are together become unprofitable; there is none that doth good, no not one.
13 Their throat is an open sepulchre; with their tongues have they used deceit; the poison of asps is under their lips.
14 Whose mouth is full of cursing and bitterness;
Ephesians 4:29
29 Let no corrupt discourse proceed out of your mouth, but that which is good, to the use of edifying, that it may minister grace to the hearers.
James 3:5-8
5 So the tongue also is a little member, yet boasteth great things. Behold how much matter a little fire kindleth.
6 And the tongue is a fire, a world of iniquity: it is the tongue among the members which defileth the whole body and setteth on fire the course of nature, and is set on fire of hell.
7 For every kind both of wild beasts and of birds, both of reptiles and things in the sea, is tamed, and hath been tamed by mankind.
8 But the tongue can no man tame: it is an unruly evil, full of deadly poison.
1 John 3:10
10 Hereby the children of God are manifest and the children of the devil: whosoever practiseth not righteousness is not of God; neither he that loveth not his brother.