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From the Blue Letter Bible
Treasury of Scripture Knowledge
Mat 12:36 — But I say unto you, That every idle word that men shall speak, they shall give account thereof in the day of judgment.
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Ecc 12:14; Rom 2:16; Eph 6:4-6; Jud 1:14,15; Rev 20:12 |
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idle word
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"[rhema ( rºh=ma )] [argos ( a¹rgo/v )] i.e., [ergo--work/act/deed] from a, privative, and [ergon ( eµrgon )] work, a word that produces no good effect, and is not calculated to produce any. ""Discourse,"" says Dr. Doddridge, ""tending to innocent mirth, to exhilarate the spirits, is not idle discourse; as the time spent in necessary recreation is not idle time.""" |
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Ecc 12:14 |
For God shall bring every work into judgment, with every secret thing, whether [it be] good, or whether [it be] evil. |
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Rom 2:16 |
In the day when God shall judge the secrets of men by Jesus Christ according to my gospel. |
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Eph 6:4 |
And, ye fathers, provoke not your children to wrath: but bring them up in the nurture and admonition of the Lord. |
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Eph 6:5 |
Servants, be obedient to them that are [your] masters according to the flesh, with fear and trembling, in singleness of your heart, as unto Christ; |
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Eph 6:6 |
Not with eyeservice, as menpleasers; but as the servants of Christ, doing the will of God from the heart; |
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Jud 1:14 |
And Enoch also, the seventh from Adam, prophesied of these, saying, Behold, the Lord cometh with ten thousands of his saints, |
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Jud 1:15 |
To execute judgment upon all, and to convince all that are ungodly among them of all their ungodly deeds which they have ungodly committed, and of all their hard [speeches] which ungodly sinners have spoken against him. |
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Rev 20:12 |
And I saw the dead, small and great, stand before God; and the books were opened: and another book was opened, which is [the book] of life: and the dead were judged out of those things which were written in the books, according to their works. |
Cite This Page: (explanation of citations)
Scott, Thomas. "Matthew 12:36," The Treasury of Scripture Knowledge. Blue Letter Bible. 1836. 9 Jul 2004. .
<http://www.blueletterbible.org/tsk_b/Mat/12/36.html>.
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