“I tell you that every idle word that men speak, they will give account of it in the day of judgment.”

Reading this verse in context

This page shows one verse on its own, which is rarely how it was written. Matthew 12 contains 50 verses, and the sentences either side usually decide what this one means. Read the whole chapter before you quote it.

Text: World English Bible, Protestant edition (engwebp), eBible.org — public domain.