31. “So I tell you, people can be forgiven for every sinful thing they do and for every bad thing they say against God. But anyone who speaks against the Holy Spirit will not be forgiven.
32. You can even speak against the Son of Man and be forgiven. But anyone who speaks against the Holy Spirit will never be forgiven—not now or in the future.
33. “If you want good fruit, you must make the tree good. If your tree is not good, it will have bad fruit. A tree is known by the kind of fruit it produces.
34. You snakes! You are so evil. How can you say anything good? What people say with their mouths comes from what fills their hearts.
35. Those who are good have good things saved in their hearts. That’s why they say good things. But those who are evil have hearts full of evil, and that’s why they say things that are evil.
36. I tell you that everyone will have to answer for all the careless things they have said. This will happen on the day of judgment.
37. Your words will be used to judge you. What you have said will show whether you are right or whether you are guilty.”