Matthew 12:34

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

1 John 3:10

How

For

Luke 6:45

General references

Exodus 35:21

Matthew 15:18

Mark 7:20

Bible References

Generation

But when he saw many of the Pharisees and Sadducees coming for baptism, he said to them, “You brood of vipers, who warned you to flee from the wrath to come?

You serpents, you brood of vipers, how will you escape the sentence of

hell?

So he began saying to the crowds who were going out to be baptized by him, “You brood of vipers, who warned you to flee from the wrath to come?

You are of your father the devil, and you want to do the desires of your father. He was a murderer from the beginning, and does not stand in the truth because there is no truth in him. Whenever he speaks a lie, he speaks from his own nature, for he is a liar and the father of lies.

By this the children of God and the children of the devil are obvious: anyone who does not practice righteousness is not of God, nor the one who does not love his brother.

How

As the proverb of the ancients says, ‘Out of the wicked comes forth wickedness’; but my hand shall not be against you.

He says to himself, “I will not be moved;

Throughout all generations I will not be in adversity.”

Your tongue devises destruction,
Like a sharp razor, O worker of deceit.

For the choir director; according to Mahalath. A Maskil of David.

The fool has said in his heart, “There is no God,”

They are corrupt, and have committed abominable injustice;

There is no one who does good.

Who have sharpened their tongue like a sword.
They aimed bitter speech as their arrow,

Deliver my soul, O Lord, from lying lips,
From a deceitful tongue.

Who devise evil things in their hearts;
They continually stir up wars.

For a fool speaks nonsense,
And his heart

inclines toward wickedness:

To practice ungodliness and to speak error against the Lord,
To

keep the hungry person unsatisfied

And to withhold drink from the thirsty.

No one sues righteously and no one pleads honestly.

They trust in confusion and speak lies;
They conceive mischief and bring forth iniquity.

“Stand in the gate of the Lord’s house and proclaim there this word and say, ‘Hear the word of the Lord, all you of Judah, who enter by these gates to worship the Lord!’”

as it is written,
“There is none righteous, not even one;

So also the tongue is a small part of the body, and yet it boasts of great things.

See how great a forest is set aflame by such a small fire!

For

The good man out of the good treasure of his heart brings forth what is good; and the evil man out of the evil treasure brings forth what is evil; for his mouth speaks from that which fills his heart.

General references

Everyone whose heart stirred him and everyone whose spirit moved him came and brought the Lord’s

contribution for the work of the tent of meeting and for all its service and for the holy garments.

But the things that proceed out of the mouth come from the heart, and those defile the man.

And He was saying, “That which proceeds out of the man, that is what defiles the man.