Luke 12:3

WEB

³Therefore whatever you have said in the darkness will be heard in the light. What you have spoken in the ear in the inner rooms will be proclaimed on the housetops.

KJV

³ Therefore whatsoever ye have spoken in darkness shall be heard in the light; and that which ye have spoken in the ear in closets shall be proclaimed upon the housetops.

BSB

³What you have spoken in the dark will be heard in the daylight, and what you have whispered in the inner rooms will be proclaimed from the housetops.

FBV

³Whatever you have said in the dark will be heard in the light, and whatever you whispered in private will be announced from the rooftops.

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Extra References

Matthew 10:27

²⁷What I tell you in the darkness, speak in the light; and what you hear whispered in the ear, proclaim on the housetops.

Ecclesiastes 10:20

²⁰Don’t curse the king, no, not in your thoughts; and don’t curse the rich in your bedroom, for a bird of the sky may carry your voice, and that which has wings may tell the matter.

Matthew 12:36

³⁶I tell you that every idle word that men speak, they will give account of it in the day of judgment.

Ecclesiastes 10:12-13

¹²The words of a wise man’s mouth are gracious; but a fool is swallowed by his own lips. ¹³The beginning of the words of his mouth is foolishness; and the end of his talk is mischievous madness.

¹⁴The murderer rises with the light. He kills the poor and needy. In the night he is like a thief. ¹⁵The eye also of the adulterer waits for the twilight, saying, ‘No eye will see me.’ He disguises his face.

Jude 1:14-15

¹⁴About these also Enoch, the seventh from Adam, prophesied, saying, “Behold,^[+] the Lord came with ten thousands of his holy ones, ¹⁵to execute judgment on all, and to convict all the ungodly of all their works of ungodliness which they have done in an ungodly way, and of all the hard things which ungodly sinners have spoken against him.”