Matthew 3:4-10

New International Version

⁴ John’s^(A) clothes were made of camel’s hair, and he had a leather belt around his waist.^(B) His food was locusts^(C) and wild honey. ⁵ People went out to him from Jerusalem and all Judea and the whole region of the Jordan. ⁶ Confessing their sins, they were baptized^(D) by him in the Jordan River.

⁷ But when he saw many of the Pharisees and Sadducees coming to where he was baptizing, he said to them: “You brood of vipers!^(E) Who warned you to flee from the coming wrath?^{(F) 8} Produce fruit in keeping with repentance.^{(G) 9} And do not think you can say to yourselves, ‘We have Abraham as our father.’^(H) I tell you that out of these stones God can raise up children for Abraham. ¹⁰ The ax is already at the root of the trees, and every tree that does not produce good fruit will be cut down and thrown into the fire.^(I)