Matthew 5:37
But let your word be ‘yes yes’, ‘no no’; for whatever is more than these is from the malignant one. [!!]
Family 35 New Testament
In The King James Version
But let your communication be, Yea, yea; Nay, nay: for whatsoever is more than these cometh of evil.
In Context
36Nor shall you swear by your head, because you cannot make one hair white or black.
38“You have heard that it was said: ‘An eye for an eye, and a tooth for a tooth.’
Cross References
Matthew 6:13And do not bring us into testing, but rescue us from the evil one; because Yours is the kingdom and the power and the glory forever. Amen.’
Matthew 13:38The field is the world; as for the good seed, these are the sons of the kingdom, while the tares are the sons of the malignant one.
John 8:44You are of your father the devil, and it is the desires of your father that you want to do. He was a murderer from the beginning and has not stood in the truth, because there is no truth in him. Whenever he speaks the lie he speaks from his own things, because he is a liar and the father of lying.
2 Corinthians 1:17Now then, when I was deciding this, I was not acting frivolously, was I? Or the things I decide, do I decide according to the flesh, so that with me there would be both “Yes, yes” and “No, no”?
Colossians 3:9Do not lie to one another, since you have taken off the old man with his practices
2 Thessalonians 3:3But the Lord is faithful, who will strengthen you and guard you from the malignant one.
Matthew Henry on Matthew 5:34-38
The Sermon on the Mount. 33 Again, ye have heard that it hath been said by them of old time, Thou shalt not forswear thyself, but shalt perform unto the Lord thine oaths: 34 But I say unto you, Swear not at all; neither by heaven; for it is God's throne: 35 Nor by the earth; for it is his footstool: neither by Jerusalem; for it is the city of the great King. 36 Neither shalt thou swear by thy head, because thou canst not make one hair white or black. 37 But let your communication be, Yea, yea; Nay, nay: for… Read the whole commentary →