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.
Generation
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Bible References
Generation
Matthew 3:7
But when he saw many of the Pharisees and of the Sadducees coming to his baptism, he said to them, O ye broods of vipers! who hath warned you to flee from the wrath to come?
Matthew 23:33
Ye serpents, ye broods of vipers! how can ye escape from the damnation of hell?
Luke 3:7
He said, therefore, to the multitudes who came out to be baptised by him, Ye broods of vipers, who hath warned you to fly from the approaching wrath?
John 8:44
Ye are of your father the devil, and the lusts of your father ye will practise. He was a murderer from the beginning, and stood not fast in the truth, because truth was not in him. When he speaketh a lie, he speaketh what is peculiarly his own: for he is a liar, and the father of it.
1 John 3:10
By this the children of God are manifestly seen, and the children of the devil. Every one that doth not practise righteousness, is not of God, and he that loveth not his brother.
How
Romans 3:10
as it is written, "There is not a just person, no not one:
James 3:5
So also the tongue is a little member, and proudly vaunts. Behold how great a pile of wood, a little fire kindleth!
For
Luke 6:45
A good man, out of the good treasure of his heart, produceth what is good; and a wicked man, from the evil treasure in his heart, produceth that which is evil: for out of the abundance of the heart the mouth speaketh.
General references
Matthew 15:18
But the things which go forth out of the mouth, come out of the heart, and they are the things which defile a man:
Mark 7:20
But, said he, what cometh out of a man, that makes a man unclean.