Mat 12:31-34, Luk 11:15, Jam 3:5-8 | ESV | STEP | Therefore I tell you , every sin and blasphemy will be forgiven people , but the blasphemy against the Spirit will not be forgiven .

aFor ver. 31, 32, see Mark 3:28-30; [Luke 12:10; Heb. 6:4-6; 10:26; 1 John 5:16]

b[Acts 7:51; Heb. 10:29]

c ch. 11:19; John 7:12; 9:24

d 1 Tim. 1:12, 13

e[See ver. 31 above]

k ch. 15:18, 19; Luke 6:45; [ch. 13:52; Eph. 4:29]

lSee Matt. 10:25

m[Ps. 12:3, 4; 73:8, 9]

n Ps. 120:2-4; Prov. 16:27

o Matt. 15:18

r Ps. 140:3; Eccles. 10:11; Rom. 3:13

Matthew 12:31-34

31 ^aTherefore I tell you, every sin and blasphemy will be forgiven people, but ^bthe blasphemy against the Spirit will not be forgiven. 32 And whoever speaks a word ^cagainst the Son of Man ^dwill be forgiven, but ^ewhoever speaks against the Holy Spirit will not be forgiven, either in ^fthis age or in the age to come.

A Tree Is Known by Its Fruit

33 ^g“Either make the tree good and its fruit good, or make the tree bad and its fruit bad, ^hfor the tree is known by its fruit. 34 ⁱYou brood of vipers! How can you speak good, ^jwhen you are evil? ^kFor out of the abundance of the heart the mouth speaks.

Luke 11:15

15 But some of them said, “He casts out demons ^lby Beelzebul, the prince of demons,”

James 3:5-8

5 So also the tongue is a small member, yet ^mit boasts of great things.

How great a forest is set ablaze by such a small fire! 6 And ⁿthe tongue is a fire, a world of unrighteousness. The tongue is set among our members, ^ostaining the whole body, setting on fire the entire course of life, ^{▼▼Or wheel of birth} and set on fire by hell. ^{▼▼Greek Gehenna} 7 For every kind of beast and bird, of reptile and sea creature, can be tamed and has been tamed by mankind, 8 but no human being can tame the tongue. It is a restless evil, ^rfull of deadly poison.