Matthew 12:37
Good News Translation
Your words will be used to judge you--to declare you either innocent or guilty."

New Revised Standard Version
for by your words you will be justified, and by your words you will be condemned.”

Contemporary English Version
On that day they will be told they are either innocent or guilty because of the things they have said.

New American Bible
By your words you will be acquitted, and by your words you will be condemned.”

Douay-Rheims Bible
For by thy words thou shalt be justified, and by thy words thou shalt be condemned.

Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

For by thy words thou shalt be justified, and by thy words thou shalt be condemned.

For by.

Proverbs 13:3 He that keepeth his mouth keepeth his soul: but he that hath no guard on his speech shall meet with evils.

justified.

James 2:21-25 Was not Abraham our father justified by works, offering up Isaac his son upon the altar? . . .

Context
Good and Bad Fruit
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. 38Then some of the scribes and Pharisees answered him, saying: Master, we would see a sign from thee.…
Cross References
Proverbs 18:21
Death and life are in the power of the tongue: they that love it, shall eat the fruits thereof.

Matthew 12:36
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.

Matthew 12:38
Then some of the scribes and Pharisees answered him, saying: Master, we would see a sign from thee.

Matthew 12:36
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