Matthew 12:37
For by your words you will be justified, and by your words you will be condemned.”
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Cross references
- Proverbs 13:3 He who guards his mouth guards his soul. One who opens wide his lips comes to ruin.
- James 2:21–23 Wasn’t Abraham our father justified by works, in that he offered up Isaac his son on the altar? You see that faith worked with his works, and by works faith was perfected. So the Scripture was fulfilled which says, “Abraham believed God, and it was accounted to him as righteousness,” and he was called the friend of God.