Matthew 12:34
'Brood of vipers! how are ye able to speak good things — being evil? for out of the abundance of the heart doth the mouth speak.
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1 Samuel 24:13as saith the simile of the ancients, From the wicked goeth out wickedness, and my hand is not on thee.
Psalms 52:2Mischiefs doth thy tongue devise, Like a sharp razor, working deceit.
Psalms 64:3Who sharpened as a sword their tongue, They directed their arrow — a bitter word.
Psalms 120:2O Jehovah, deliver my soul from a lying lip, From a deceitful tongue!
Isaiah 32:6For a fool speaketh folly, And his heart doth iniquity, to do profanity, And to speak concerning Jehovah error, To empty the soul of the hungry, Yea, drink of the thirsty he causeth to lack.
Isaiah 59:14And removed backward is judgment, And righteousness afar off standeth, For truth hath 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 →