Matthew 5:37
Let your words be simply ‘Yes’ or ‘No’; anything beyond this comes from what is evil.
Open English Bible (US)
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 should you swear by your head, since you cannot make a single hair either 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 take us not into temptation, but deliver us from evil.’
Matthew 13:38The field is the world. By the good seed is meant the people of the kingdom. The weeds are the wicked,
John 8:44As for you, you are children of your father the devil, and you are determined to do what your father loves to do. He was a murderer from the first, and did not stand by the truth, because there is no truth in him. Whenever he lies, he does what is natural to him; because he is a liar, and the father of lying.
2 Corinthians 1:17As this was my plan, where, pray, did I show any fickleness of purpose? Or do you think that my plans are formed on mere impulse, so that in the same breath I say ‘Yes’ and ‘No’?
Colossians 3:9Never lie to one another. Get rid of your old self and its habits,
2 Thessalonians 3:3But the Lord will not fail you. He will give you strength, and guard you from evil.
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 →