Mat 12:36

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Eccl 12:14; Rom 2:16; Eph 6:4-6; Jude 1:14; Jude 1:15; Rev 20:12

idle word.[Rhema ,] [argos ,] i.e., [ergo--work/act/deed,] from a, privative, and [ergon ,] work, a word that produces no good effect, and is not calculated to produce any.

"Discourse," says Dr. Doddridge, "tending to innocent mirth, to exhilarate the spirits, is not idle discourse; as the time spent in necessary recreation is not idle time."