Verse (Click for Chapter) New International Version For by your words you will be acquitted, and by your words you will be condemned.” New Living Translation The words you say will either acquit you or condemn you.” English Standard Version for by your words you will be justified, and by your words you will be condemned.” Berean Standard Bible For by your words you will be acquitted, and by your words you will be condemned.” Berean Literal Bible For by your words you will be justified, and by your words you will be condemned." King James Bible For by thy words thou shalt be justified, and by thy words thou shalt be condemned. New King James Version For by your words you will be justified, and by your words you will be condemned.” New American Standard Bible For by your words you will be justified, and by your words you will be condemned.” NASB 1995 “For by your words you will be justified, and by your words you will be condemned.” NASB 1977 “For by your words you shall be justified, and by your words you shall be condemned.” Legacy Standard Bible For by your words you will be justified, and by your words you will be condemned.” Amplified Bible For by your words [reflecting your spiritual condition] you will be justified and acquitted of the guilt of sin; and by your words [rejecting Me] you will be condemned and sentenced.” Christian Standard Bible For by your words you will be acquitted, and by your words you will be condemned.” Holman Christian Standard Bible For by your words you will be acquitted, and by your words you will be condemned.” American Standard Version For by thy words thou shalt be justified, and by thy words thou shalt be condemned. Aramaic Bible in Plain English 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. Douay-Rheims Bible For by thy words thou shalt be justified, and by thy words thou shalt be condemned. English Revised Version For by thy words thou shalt be justified, and by thy words thou shalt be condemned. GOD'S WORD® Translation By your words you will be declared innocent, or by your words you will be declared guilty." Good News Translation Your words will be used to judge you--to declare you either innocent or guilty." International Standard Version because by your words you will be acquitted, and by your words you will be condemned." Literal Standard Version for from your words you will be declared righteous, and from your words you will be declared unrighteous.” Majority Standard Bible For by your words you will be acquitted, and by your words you will be condemned.” New American Bible By your words you will be acquitted, and by your words you will be condemned.” NET Bible For by your words you will be justified, and by your words you will be condemned." New Revised Standard Version for by your words you will be justified, and by your words you will be condemned.” New Heart English Bible For by your words you will be justified, and by your words you will be condemned." Webster's Bible Translation For by thy words thou shalt be justified, and by thy words thou shalt be condemned. Weymouth New Testament For each of you by his words shall be justified, or by his words shall be condemned." World English Bible For by your words you will be justified, and by your words you will be condemned.” Young's Literal Translation for from thy words thou shalt be declared righteous, and from thy words thou shalt be declared unrighteous.' Additional Translations ... Audio Bible Context Good and Bad Fruit…36But I tell you that men will give an account on the day of judgment for every careless word they have spoken. 37For by your words you will be acquitted, and by your words you will be condemned.” 38Then some of the scribes and Pharisees said to Him, “Teacher, we want to see a sign from You.”… Cross References Proverbs 18:21 Life and death are in the power of the tongue, and those who love it will eat its fruit. Matthew 12:36 But I tell you that men will give an account on the day of judgment for every careless word they have spoken. Matthew 12:38 Then some of the scribes and Pharisees said to Him, "Teacher, we want to see a sign from You." Treasury of Scripture For by your words you shall be justified, and by your words you shall be condemned. For by. Proverbs 13:3 He that keepeth his mouth keepeth his life: but he that openeth wide his lips shall have destruction. justified. James 2:21-25 Was not Abraham our father justified by works, when he had offered Isaac his son upon the altar? … Jump to Previous Acquitted Condemned Declared Judged Justified Righteous Righteousness Unrighteous WordsJump to Next Acquitted Condemned Declared Judged Justified Righteous Righteousness Unrighteous WordsMatthew 12 1. Jesus reproves the blindness of the Pharisees concerning the Sabbath,3. by scripture, 9. by reason, 13. and by a miracle. 22. He heals a man possessed that was blind and mute; 24. and confronting the absurd charge of casting out demons by Beelzebub, 32. he shows that blasphemy against the Holy Spirit shall never be forgiven. 36. Account shall be made of idle words. 38. He rebukes the unfaithful, who seek after a sign, 46. and shows who is his brother, sister, and mother. (37) By thy words thou shalt be justified.--Stripped of the after-thoughts which have gathered round it in the later controversies of theologians, the word "justified" means, as its position here shows, the opposite of "condemned," the being "acquitted" either on a special charge or on a general trial of character. In this sense we are able to understand (without entering into the labyrinth of logomachies in which commentators on the Epistles have too often entangled themselves) how it is that men are said to be justified by faith (Romans 3:28 et al.), justified by works (James 2:24), justified--as here--by words. All three--faith, works, words--are alike elements of a man's character, making or showing what he is. Faith, implying trust and therefore love, justifies as the root element of character; "words," as its most spontaneous manifestation; works, as its more permanent results. Of the words and the works men can in some measure judge, and they are the tests by which a man should judge himself. The faith which lies deeper in the life is known only to God, and it is therefore by faith rather than by works that a man is justified before God, though the faith is no true faith unless it moulds the character and therefore enables the man to pass the other tests also.Verse 37. - For by (ἐκ) - referring to, as it were, the source of the verdict - thy words (τῶν λόγοι σου); thy, individualizing. Ob-nerve the change from ῤῆμα (ver. 36), which might in itself refer to the utterance of a madman, or to a parrot-like quotation. But by here using λόγοι our Lord shows that he is thinking of utterances of the reason. sentences spoken with a knowledge of their meaning, and forming parts of what are virtually, though not literally, discourses. A ῤῆμα may be the merely mechanical utterance of the lips, λόγοι imply consciousness. The presence of λόγον in the preceding clause is probably entirely accidental. Thou shalt be justified (Matthew 11:19, note) - 'Quid enim aliud sermones sancti quam tides sonans" (Calovius, in Meyer) - and by thy words thou shalt be condemned (ver. 7, note). Parallel Commentaries ... Greek Forγὰρ (gar) Conjunction Strong's 1063: For. A primary particle; properly, assigning a reason. by ἐκ (ek) Preposition Strong's 1537: From out, out from among, from, suggesting from the interior outwards. A primary preposition denoting origin, from, out. your σου (sou) Personal / Possessive Pronoun - Genitive 2nd Person Singular Strong's 4771: You. The person pronoun of the second person singular; thou. words λόγων (logōn) Noun - Genitive Masculine Plural Strong's 3056: From lego; something said; by implication, a topic, also reasoning or motive; by extension, a computation; specially, the Divine Expression. you will be acquitted, δικαιωθήσῃ (dikaiōthēsē) Verb - Future Indicative Passive - 2nd Person Singular Strong's 1344: From dikaios; to render just or innocent. and καὶ (kai) Conjunction Strong's 2532: And, even, also, namely. by ἐκ (ek) Preposition Strong's 1537: From out, out from among, from, suggesting from the interior outwards. A primary preposition denoting origin, from, out. your σου (sou) Personal / Possessive Pronoun - Genitive 2nd Person Singular Strong's 4771: You. The person pronoun of the second person singular; thou. words λόγων (logōn) Noun - Genitive Masculine Plural Strong's 3056: From lego; something said; by implication, a topic, also reasoning or motive; by extension, a computation; specially, the Divine Expression. you will be condemned.” καταδικασθήσῃ (katadikasthēsē) Verb - Future Indicative Passive - 2nd Person Singular Strong's 2613: To condemn, pass sentence upon. From kata and a derivative of dike; to adjudge against, i.e. Pronounce guilty. Links Matthew 12:37 NIVMatthew 12:37 NLT Matthew 12:37 ESV Matthew 12:37 NASB Matthew 12:37 KJV Matthew 12:37 BibleApps.com Matthew 12:37 Biblia Paralela Matthew 12:37 Chinese Bible Matthew 12:37 French Bible Matthew 12:37 Catholic Bible NT Gospels: Matthew 12:37 For by your words you will be (Matt. Mat Mt) |
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