Matthew 12:36
Good News Translation
"You can be sure that on the Judgment Day you will have to give account of every useless word you have ever spoken.

New Revised Standard Version
I tell you, on the day of judgment you will have to give an account for every careless word you utter;

Contemporary English Version
I promise you on the day of judgment, everyone will have to account for every careless word they have spoken.

New American Bible
I tell you, on the day of judgment people will render an account for every careless word they speak.

Douay-Rheims Bible
But I say unto you, that every idle word that men shall speak, they shall render an account for it in the day of judgment.

Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

But I say unto you, that every idle word that men shall speak, they shall render an account for it in the day of judgment.

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Ecclesiastes 12:14 And all things that are done, God will bring into judgment for every error, whether it be good or evil.

Romans 2:16 In the day when God shall judge the secrets of men by Jesus Christ, according to my gospel.

Ephesians 6:4-6 And you, fathers, provoke not your children to anger: but bring them up in the discipline and correction of the Lord. . . .

Jude 1:14,15 Now of these Enoch also, the seventh from Adam, prophesied, saying: Behold, the Lord cometh with thousands of his saints: . . .

Revelation 20:12 And I saw the dead, great and small, standing in the presence of the throne. And the books were opened: and another book was opened, which was the book of life. And the dead were judged by those things which were written in the books, according to their works.

idle word.

Context
Good and Bad Fruit
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. 37For by thy words thou shalt be justified, and by thy words thou shalt be condemned.…
Cross References
Matthew 10:15
Amen I say to you, it shall be more tolerable for the land of Sodom and Gomorrha in the day of judgment, than for that city.

Matthew 11:22
But I say unto you, it shall be more tolerable for Tyre and Sidon in the day of judgment, than for you.

Matthew 12:37
For by thy words thou shalt be justified, and by thy words thou shalt be condemned.

Romans 14:12
Therefore every one of us shall render account to God for himself.

James 3:6
And the tongue is a fire, a world of iniquity. The tongue is placed among our members, which defileth the whole body and inflameth the wheel of our nativity, being set on fire by hell.

Matthew 12:35
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