Matthew 12:36-37
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[36] I tell you that every idle word that men speak, they will give account of it in the day of judgment. [37] For by your words you will be justified, and by your words you will be condemned."
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Get a full Reformed explanation of this passageNineveh was the great Assyrian city whose people repented at Jonah’s preaching; “the South” refers to the Queen of Sheba, likely from Arabia, who came to hear Solomon’s wisdom. Jesus cites both as witnesses against those rejecting his greater wisdom and call to repentance.
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Matthew 12:36-37 mentions Nineveh and South.
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