Matthew 12:34
O generation of vipers, how can all of you, being evil, speak good things? for out of the abundance of the heart the mouth speaks.
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1 Samuel 24:13As says the proverb of the ancients, Wickedness proceeds from the wicked: but mine hand shall not be upon you.
Psalms 52:2The tongue devises evil; like a sharp razor, working deceitfully.
Psalms 64:3Who sharpen their tongue like a sword, and bend their bows to shoot their arrows, even bitter words:
Psalms 120:2Deliver my soul, O LORD, from lying lips, and from a deceitful tongue.
Isaiah 32:6For the vile person will speak villainy, and his heart will work iniquity, to practice hypocrisy, and to utter error against the LORD, to make empty the soul of the hungry, and he will cause the drink of the thirsty to fail.
Isaiah 59:14And judgment is turned away backward, and justice stands far off: for truth is fallen in the street, and equity cannot 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 →