JMNT(i)
31 "For this reason, I continue saying to you folks, Every failure (mistake; error; failure to attain the goal or hit the target; sin)
and blasphemy (vilifying, abusive and slanderous speech; light-hindrance)
will be caused to flow away from (will be divorced and sent off for; will be pardoned and forgiven)
humanity (mankind).
Yet, the blasphemy pertaining to (vilifying, abusive, slanderous speech about)
the Spirit (the Breath-effect; the Attitude)
will not be caused to flow away (not be divorced and sent off; not be pardoned or forgiven)
in mankind.
32 "And further, whoever may say a word (should speak a thought or message) [
directed]
down against the Son of the Man (the son of humanity; = Adam's son),
it will continue caused to flow away for him (will be progressively divorced and sent off in him; or: he will continue pardoned and forgiven by Him).
Yet [
for]
whoever may speak down against the Set-apart Spirit (the Breath-effect of the Holy One; the Sacred Attitude),
it will not proceed to be caused to flow away from him (or: he will not continue pardoned and forgiven by Him; it will not progress to be released and sent off in him)
– neither within this age, nor within the one being about to be (the impending one).
33 "You folks either make the tree ideal (fine and beautiful),
and thus its fruit ideal (fine and beautiful),
or make the tree rotten, and its fruit [
will be]
rotten (decayed).
You see, the tree is habitually being known and experienced from out of the [
or: its]
fruit.
34 "Offspring ([You] effects of the births)
of poisonous snakes (vipers; serpents; [comment: perhaps equating them to satan])!
How are you able to habitually say good and virtuous things, being inherently good-for-nothing and useless folks (being worthless and knavish; being folks in a sorry plight and oppressed by grievous toils; existing being base and wicked; continuously being ones characterized by evil)?
You see, from out of the midst of the effect of the excess from the heart's surrounding abundance, the mouth is continually speaking.