Matthew 12:36

But I say unto you, That every idle word that men shall speak, they shall give account thereof in the day of judgment.

But {G1161} I say {G3004} unto you {G5213}, That {G3754} every {G3956} idle {G692} word {G4487} that {G3739}{G1437} men {G444} shall speak {G2980}, they shall give {G591} account {G3056} thereof {G4012}{G846} in {G1722} the day {G2250} of judgment {G2920}.

Moreover, I tell you this: on the Day of Judgment people will have to give account for every careless word they have spoken;

But I tell you that men will give an account on the day of judgment for every careless word they have spoken.

And I say unto you, that every idle word that men shall speak, they shall give account thereof in the day of judgment.

Commentary

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Cross-References

  • Ecclesiastes 12:14 (51 votes)

    For God shall bring every work into judgment, with every secret thing, whether [it be] good, or whether [it be] evil.

  • Romans 2:16 (27 votes)

    In the day when God shall judge the secrets of men by Jesus Christ according to my gospel.

  • Revelation 20:12 (23 votes)

    And I saw the dead, small and great, stand before God; and the books were opened: and another book was opened, which is [the book] of life: and the dead were judged out of those things which were written in the books, according to their works.

  • Jude 1:14 (17 votes)

    And Enoch also, the seventh from Adam, prophesied of these, saying, Behold, the Lord cometh with ten thousands of his saints,

  • Jude 1:15 (17 votes)

    ¶ To execute judgment upon all, and to convince all that are ungodly among them of all their ungodly deeds which they have ungodly committed, and of all their hard [speeches] which ungodly sinners have spoken against him.

  • Ephesians 6:4 (4 votes)

    And, ye fathers, provoke not your children to wrath: but bring them up in the nurture and admonition of the Lord.

  • Ephesians 6:6 (4 votes)

    Not with eyeservice, as menpleasers; but as the servants of Christ, doing the will of God from the heart;