Matthew 12:31-44

³¹Therefore I say to you, every sin and blasphemy will be forgiven people, but the blasphemy against the Spirit will not be forgiven people.

³²And whoever speaks a word against the Son of the Man, it will be forgiven him; but whoever speaks against the Holy Spirit, it will not be forgiven him, neither in the present age nor in the next.

³³“Either make the tree good and its fruit good, or make the tree rotten and its fruit rotten; for the tree is known by the fruit.

³⁴Brood of vipers! How can you, being malignant, speak good things? For out of the abundance of the heart the mouth speaks.

³⁵The good man out of the good reservoir brings forth good things, and the malignant man out of the malignant reservoir brings forth malignant things.

³⁶Furthermore, I say to you that for every useless word whatever that people may speak, they will give account of it in the Day of judgment.

³⁷For by your words you will be justified, and by your words you will be condemned.”

³⁸Then some of the scribes and Pharisees reacted saying, “Teacher, we want to see a sign from you.”

³⁹But in answer He said to them: “A malignant and adulterous generation seeks a sign, and no sign will be given to it except the sign of the prophet Jonah.

⁴⁰For just as Jonah was three days and three nights in the stomach of the sea monster, so will the Son of the Man be three days and three nights in the heart of the earth.

⁴¹Ninevite men will arise with this generation at the judgment and will condemn it, because they repented at the preaching of Jonah; and really, a greater than Jonah is here.

⁴²The queen of the South will be raised with this generation at the judgment and she will condemn it, because she came from the ends of the earth to hear the wisdom of Solomon; and really, a greater than Solomon is here.

⁴³“Now when an unclean spirit demon goes out from a man, it goes through arid places looking for rest, but finds none.

⁴⁴Then it says, ‘I will return to my house from where I came.’ And coming it finds it unoccupied, swept and put in order.