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 exclaimed, "O vipers' brood, who has warned you to flee from the coming wrath?
Matthew 23:33
O serpents, O vipers' brood, how are you to escape condemnation to Gehenna?
Luke 3:7
Accordingly John used to say to the crowds who came out to be baptized by him, "O vipers' brood, who has warned you to flee from the coming wrath?
John 8:44
The father whose sons you are is the Devil; and you desire to do what gives him pleasure. *He* was a murderer from the beginning, and does not stand firm in the truth--for there is no truth in him. Whenever he utters his lie, he utters it out of his own store; for he is a liar, and the father of lies.
1 John 3:10
By this we can distinguish God's children and the Devil's children: no one who fails to act righteously is a child of God, nor he who does not love his brother man.
How
Romans 3:10
Thus it stands written, "There is not one righteous man.
James 3:5
In the same way the tongue is an insignificant part of the body, but it is immensely boastful. Remember how a mere spark may set a vast forest in flames.
For
Luke 6:45
A good man from the good stored up in his heart brings out what is good; and an evil man from the evil stored up brings out what is evil; for from the overflow of his heart his mouth speaks.
General references
Matthew 15:18
But the things that come out of the mouth proceed from the heart, and it is these that defile the man.
Mark 7:20
"What comes out of a man," He added, "that it is which makes him unclean.