Treasury of Scripture Knowledge
Summary
O generation of vipers, how can ye, being evil, speak good things? for out of the abundance of the heart the mouth speaketh.
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Bible References
Generation
Matthew 3:7
But when he saw many of the Pharisees and Sadducees coming for baptism, he said to them, "You brood of snakes! Who warned you to escape from the wrath that is coming?
Matthew 23:33
You serpents! You brood of snakes! How can you escape being sentenced to the pit?
Luke 3:7
So he would say to the crowds that came out there to be baptized by him, "You brood of snakes! Who warned you to fly from the wrath that is coming?
John 8:44
The devil is the father you are sprung from, and you want to carry out your father's wishes. He was a murderer from the first, and he has nothing to do with the truth, for there is no truth in him. When he tells a lie, he speaks in his true character, for he is a liar and the father of them.
1 John 3:10
This is how the children of God and those of the devil can be distinguished: No one who does not act uprightly or who does not love his brother is a child of God.
How
Romans 3:10
As the Scripture says, "There is not a single man who is upright,
James 3:5
So the tongue is a little organ and yet very boastful. What a great forest a spark will set on fire!
For
Luke 6:45
A good man, out of the good he has accumulated in his heart, produces good, and a bad man, out of what he has accumulated that is bad, produces what is bad. For his mouth says only what his heart is full of.
General references
Matthew 15:18
But the things that come out of the mouth come from the heart, and they pollute a man.
Mark 7:20
He went on to say, "It is what comes out of a man that pollutes him.