For by your words you will be justified, and by your words you will be condemned. The judgment by words — not works alone but words — is the consequence of the abundance-of-the-heart principle: what the heart contains, the mouth reveals, and what the mouth reveals, the judgment evaluates. The Pharisees whose mouths produced the Beelzebul charge have condemned themselves by their own words. The words are not the basis of salvation but the evidence of the heart's condition that salvation or condemnation reflects.

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