Matthew 12:33-35

Expanded Bible

People Know You by Your Words

³³ “If you want good fruit, you must ·make the tree good [grow a good/healthy tree]. If ·your tree is not good [you grow a bad/unhealthy tree], it will have bad fruit. A tree is ·known [identified; recognized] by the kind of fruit it produces. ³⁴ You ·snakes [^Tbrood/offspring of vipers]! You are evil people, so how can you say anything good? [^LFor] The mouth speaks the things that ·are in [overflow from] the heart. ³⁵ Good people ·have good things in their hearts, and so they say good things [^Lbring forth good things from the good treasure/storehouse]. But evil people ·have evil in their hearts, so they say evil things [^Lbring forth evil things from the evil treasure/storehouse].