Parallel Verses

Holman Bible

Brood of vipers! How can you speak good things when you are evil? For the mouth speaks from the overflow of the heart.

New American Standard Bible

You brood of vipers, how can you, being evil, speak what is good? For the mouth speaks out of that which fills the heart.

King James Version

O generation of vipers, how can ye, being evil, speak good things? for out of the abundance of the heart the mouth speaketh.

International Standard Version

You children of serpents! How can you say anything good when you are evil? The mouth speaks about what overflows from the heart.

A Conservative Version

Ye offspring of vipers, how can ye, being evil, speak good things? For out of the abundance of the heart the mouth speaks.

American Standard Version

Ye offspring of vipers, how can ye, being evil, speak good things? for out of the abundance of the heart the mouth speaketh.

Amplified

You brood of vipers, how can you speak good things when you are evil? For the mouth speaks out of that which fills the heart.

An Understandable Version

You children of snakes! Since you are evil, how do you expect to speak good things? For the mouth speaks what the heart is filled with.

Anderson New Testament

Generation of vipers, how can you, being evil, speak good things? For out of the abundance of the heart, the mouth speaks.

Bible in Basic English

You offspring of snakes, how are you, being evil, able to say good things? because out of the heart's store come the words of the mouth.

Common New Testament

You brood of vipers! how can you speak good, when you are evil? For out of the abundance of the heart the mouth speaks.

Daniel Mace New Testament

O degenerate race, how can ye, wicked as ye are, utter any thing that is good? for "'tis the overflowing of the heart that the mouth dischargeth."

Darby Translation

Offspring of vipers! how can ye speak good things, being wicked? For of the abundance of the heart the mouth speaks.

Godbey New Testament

O ye generations of vipers, how are you, being evil, able to speak good things? for out of the abundance of the heart the mouth speaks.

Goodspeed New Testament

You brood of snakes! how can you, bad as you are, utter anything good? For the mouth says only what the heart is full of.

John Wesley New Testament

Ye brood of vipers, how can ye, being evil, speak good things? For out of the abundance of the heart the mouth speaketh.

Julia Smith Translation

O generation of vipers! how can ye speak good things, being evil? for out of the abundance of the heart the month speaks.

King James 2000

O generation of vipers, how can you, being evil, speak good things? for out of the abundance of the heart the mouth speaks.

Lexham Expanded Bible

Offspring of vipers! How are you able to say good things [when you] are evil? For from the abundance of the heart the mouth speaks.

Modern King James verseion

Offspring of vipers! How can you, being evil, speak good things? For out of the abundance of the heart the mouth speaks.

Modern Spelling Tyndale-Coverdale

O generation of vipers, how can ye say well, when ye yourselves are evil? For of the abundance of the heart, the mouth speaketh.

Moffatt New Testament

You brood of vipers, how can you speak good when you are evil? For the mouth utters what the heart is full of.

Montgomery New Testament

"You generation of vipers! How can you speak good, when you are evil? For the mouth speaks what the heart is full of. "When the time of fruit drew near, he sent his slaves to the vine-dressers seized to get his fruit.

NET Bible

Offspring of vipers! How are you able to say anything good, since you are evil? For the mouth speaks from what fills the heart.

New Heart English Bible

You offspring of vipers, how can you, being evil, speak good things? For out of the abundance of the heart, the mouth speaks.

Noyes New Testament

How can ye, evil as ye are, speak good things? For out of the abundance of the heart the mouth speaketh.

Sawyer New Testament

Offspring of vipers, how can you, being evil, speak good things? For out of the abundance of the heart the mouth speaks.

The Emphasized Bible

Broods of vipers! How can ye speak, good things, being, evil? For, out of the abundance of the heart, the mouth speaketh.

Thomas Haweis New Testament

Ye broods of vipers, how can ye speak good things, yourselves being wicked? for out of the abundance of the heart the mouth speaketh.

Twentieth Century New Testament

You brood of vipers! how can you, evil as you are, say anything good? For what fills the heart will rise to the lips.

Webster

O generation of vipers, how can ye, being evil, speak good things? for out of the abundance of the heart, the mouth speaketh.

Weymouth New Testament

O vipers' brood, how can you speak what is good when you are evil? For it is from the overflow of the heart that the mouth speaks.

Williams New Testament

You brood of vipers! How can you, wicked as you are, say anything that is good? For the mouth talks about the things that fill the heart.

World English Bible

You offspring of vipers, how can you, being evil, speak good things? For out of the abundance of the heart, the mouth speaks.

Worrell New Testament

"Broods of vipers! how can ye speak good things, being yourselves evil? For, out of the abundance of the heart, the mouth speaks.

Worsley New Testament

O race of vipers, how can ye speak good things, who are yourselves so wicked? for out of the abundance of the heart the mouth speaketh.

Youngs Literal Translation

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.

Interlinear

English(KJV)
Strong's
Root Form
Definition
Usage
γέννημα 
Gennema 
Usage: 3

of vipers
ἔχιδνα 
Echidna 
Usage: 3

how
πῶς 
Pos 
Usage: 65

can ye
δύναμαι 
Dunamai 
can , cannot , be able, may , able,
Usage: 140

ὤν οὖσα ὄν 
On 
being, when ... was, which is, that is, not tr,
Usage: 128

πονηρός 
Poneros 
Usage: 36

λαλέω 
Laleo 
Usage: 235

G18
ἀγαθός 
Agathos 
Usage: 70

for
γάρ 
Gar 
for, , not tr
Usage: 825

out
ἐκ ἐξ 
Ek 
of, from, out of, by, on, with,
Usage: 709

of the abundance
περίσσευμα 
Perisseuma 
Usage: 3

of the heart
καρδία 
Kardia 
Usage: 116

the mouth
στόμα 
Stoma 
Usage: 63

References

American

Easton

Fausets

Context Readings

Good Trees And Good Fruit Or Bad Trees And Bad Fruit

33 “Either make the tree good and its fruit good, or make the tree bad and its fruit bad; for a tree is known by its fruit. 34 Brood of vipers! How can you speak good things when you are evil? For the mouth speaks from the overflow of the heart. 35 A good man produces good things from his storeroom of good, and an evil man produces evil things from his storeroom of evil.


Cross References

Luke 6:45

A good man produces good out of the good storeroom of his heart. An evil man produces evil out of the evil storeroom, for his mouth speaks from the overflow of the heart.

Matthew 23:33

“Snakes! Brood of vipers! How can you escape being condemned to hell?

Matthew 3:7

When he saw many of the Pharisees and Sadducees coming to the place of his baptism, he said to them, “Brood of vipers! Who warned you to flee from the coming wrath?

Matthew 15:18

But what comes out of the mouth comes from the heart, and this defiles a man.

James 3:5-8

So too, though the tongue is a small part of the body, it boasts great things. Consider how large a forest a small fire ignites.

1 Samuel 24:13

As the old proverb says, ‘Wickedness comes from wicked people.’ My hand will never be against you.

Isaiah 32:6

For a fool speaks foolishness
and his mind plots iniquity.
He lives in a godless way
and speaks falsely about the Lord.
He leaves the hungry empty
and deprives the thirsty of drink.

Luke 3:7

He then said to the crowds who came out to be baptized by him, “Brood of vipers! Who warned you to flee from the coming wrath?

Psalm 10:6-7

He says to himself, “I will never be moved—
from generation to generation without calamity.”

Matthew 12:35

A good man produces good things from his storeroom of good, and an evil man produces evil things from his storeroom of evil.

John 8:44

You are of your father the Devil, and you want to carry out your father’s desires. He was a murderer from the beginning and has not stood in the truth, because there is no truth in him. When he tells a lie, he speaks from his own nature, because he is a liar and the father of liars.

Ephesians 4:29

No foul language is to come from your mouth, but only what is good for building up someone in need, so that it gives grace to those who hear.

Psalm 52:2-5

Like a sharpened razor,
your tongue devises destruction,
working treachery.

Psalm 53:1

For the choir director: on Mahalath. A Davidic Maskil.The fool says in his heart, “God does not exist.”
They are corrupt, and they do vile deeds.
There is no one who does good.

Psalm 64:3

who sharpen their tongues like swords
and aim bitter words like arrows,

Psalm 64:5

They encourage each other in an evil plan;
they talk about hiding traps and say,
“Who will see them?”

Psalm 120:2-4

Lord, deliver me from lying lips
and a deceitful tongue.”

Psalm 140:2-3

who plan evil in their hearts.
They stir up wars all day long.

Isaiah 59:4

No one makes claims justly;
no one pleads honestly.
They trust in empty and worthless words;
they conceive trouble and give birth to iniquity.

Isaiah 59:14

Justice is turned back,
and righteousness stands far off.
For truth has stumbled in the public square,
and honesty cannot enter.

Jeremiah 7:2-5

“Stand in the gate of the house of the Lord and there call out this word: Hear the word of the Lord, all you people of Judah who enter through these gates to worship the Lord.

Romans 3:10-14

as it is written:

There is no one righteous, not even one.

1 John 3:10

This is how God’s children—and the Devil’s children—are made evident.

Whoever does not do what is right is not of God, especially the one who does not love his brother.

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