Matthew 12:35
Good News Translation
A good person brings good things out of a treasure of good things; a bad person brings bad things out of a treasure of bad things.

New Revised Standard Version
The good person brings good things out of a good treasure, and the evil person brings evil things out of an evil treasure.

Contemporary English Version
Good people bring good things out of their hearts, but evil people bring evil things out of their hearts.

New American Bible
A good person brings forth good out of a store of goodness, but an evil person brings forth evil out of a store of evil.

Douay-Rheims Bible
A good man out of a good treasure bringeth forth good things: and an evil man out of an evil treasure bringeth forth evil things.

Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

A good man out of a good treasure bringeth forth good things: and an evil man out of an evil treasure bringeth forth evil things.

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Matthew 13:52 He said unto them: Therefore every scribe instructed in the kingdom of heaven, is like to a man that is a householder, who bringeth forth out of his treasure new things and old.

Psalm 37:30,31 The mouth of the just shall meditate wisdom: and his tongue shall speak judgment. . . .

Proverbs 10:20,21 The lips of the just teach many: but they that are ignorant, shall die in the want of understanding. . . .

Proverbs 12:6,17-19 Turn the wicked, and they shall not be: but the house of the just shall stand firm. . . .

Proverbs 15:4,23,28 A peaceable tongue is a tree of life: but that which is immoderate, shall crush the spirit. . . .

Proverbs 16:21-23 The wise in heart shall be called prudent: and he that is sweet in words, shall attain to greater things. . . .

Proverbs 25:11,12 To speak a word in due time, is like apples of gold on beds of silver. . . .

Ephesians 4:29 Let no evil speech proceed from your mouth: but that which is good, to the edification of faith: that it may administer grace to the hearers.

Colossians 3:16 Let the word of Christ dwell in you abundantly: in all wisdom, teaching and admonishing one another in psalms, hymns and spiritual canticles, singing in grace in your hearts to God.

Colossians 4:6 Let your speech be always in grace seasoned with salt: that you may know how you ought to answer every man.

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Matthew 12:34 O generation of vipers, how can you speak good things, whereas you are evil? for out of the abundance of the heart the mouth speaketh.

Context
Good and Bad Fruit
34O generation of vipers, how can you speak good things, whereas you are evil? for out of the abundance of the heart the mouth speaketh. 35A good man out of a good treasure bringeth forth good things: and an evil man out of an evil treasure bringeth forth evil things. 36But I say unto you, that every idle word that men shall speak, they shall render an account for it in the day of judgment.…
Cross References
Proverbs 10:20
The lips of the just teach many: but they that are ignorant, shall die in the want of understanding.

Proverbs 10:21
The blessing of the Lord maketh men rich: neither shall affliction be joined to them.

Proverbs 25:11
To speak a word in due time, is like apples of gold on beds of silver.

Proverbs 25:12
As an earring of gold and a bright pearl, so is he that reproveth the wise, and the obedient ear.

Matthew 7:17
Even so every good tree bringeth forth good fruit, and the evil tree bringeth forth evil fruit.

Matthew 12:34
O generation of vipers, how can you speak good things, whereas you are evil? for out of the abundance of the heart the mouth speaketh.

Matthew 13:52
He said unto them: Therefore every scribe instructed in the kingdom of heaven, is like to a man that is a householder, who bringeth forth out of his treasure new things and old.

Luke 6:45
A good man out of the good treasure of his heart bringeth forth that which is good: and an evil man out of the evil treasure bringeth forth that which is evil. For out of the abundance of the heart the mouth speaketh.

Colossians 4:6
Let your speech be always in grace seasoned with salt: that you may know how you ought to answer every man.

Matthew 12:34
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