Matthew 12:33-37

International Children’s Bible

People Know You by Your Words

³³ “If you want good fruit, you must make the tree good. If your tree is not good, then it will have bad fruit. A tree is known by the kind of fruit it produces. ³⁴ You snakes! You are evil people! How can you say anything good? The mouth speaks the things that are in the heart. ³⁵ A good person has good things in his heart. And so he speaks the good things that come from his heart. But an evil person has evil in his heart. So he speaks the evil things that come from his heart. ³⁶ And I tell you that people will have to explain about every careless thing they have said. This will happen on the Judgment Day. ³⁷ The words you have said will be used to judge you. Some of your words will prove you right, but some of your words will prove you guilty.”