12 ³³ 'Either make the tree good and its fruit good, or make the tree bad and its fruit bad; you can tell a tree by its fruit. 12 ³⁴ You vipers' brood! How can your words be good when you yourselves are evil? For the words that the mouth utters come from the overflowing of the heart. 12 ³⁵ A good man produces good from the store of good within himself; and an evil man from evil within produces evil.
12 ³⁶ 'I tell you this: there is not a thoughtless word that comes from men's lips but they will have to account for it on the day of judgement. 12 ³⁷ For out of your own mouth you will be acquitted; out of your own mouth you will be condemned.'