Matthew 12:34
Brood of vipers! How are you able to speak good things—being evil? For out of the abundance of the heart the mouth speaks.
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1 Samuel 24:13as the allegory of the ancients says, Wickedness goes out from the wicked, and my hand is not on you.
Psalms 52:2Your tongue devises mischiefs, || Like a sharp razor, working deceit.
Psalms 64:3Who sharpened their tongue as a sword, || They directed their arrow—a bitter word.
Psalms 120:2O YHWH, deliver my soul from a lying lip, || From a deceitful tongue!
Isaiah 32:6For a fool speaks folly, || And his heart does iniquity, to do profanity, || And to speak error concerning YHWH, || To empty the soul of the hungry, || Indeed, he causes the thirsty to lack [their] drink.
Isaiah 59:14And judgment is removed backward, || And righteousness stands far off, || For truth has been feeble in the street, || And straightforwardness is not able to enter,
Matthew Henry on Matthew 12:23-38
The Sin against the Holy Ghost. 22 Then was brought unto him one possessed with a devil, blind, and dumb: and he healed him, insomuch that the blind and dumb both spake and saw. 23 And all the people were amazed, and said, Is not this the son of David? 24 But when the Pharisees heard it, they said, This fellow doth not cast out devils, but by Beelzebub the prince of the devils. 25 And Jesus knew their thoughts, and said unto them, Every kingdom divided against itself is brought to desolation; and every city or… Read the whole commentary →