Matthew 5:37
But let your ‘Yes’ be ‘Yes’ and your ‘No’ be ‘No.’ Whatever is more than these is of the evil one.
World English Bible
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
36Neither shall you swear by your head, for you can’t 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 6:13Bring us not into temptation, but deliver us from the evil one. For yours is the Kingdom, the power, and the glory forever. Amen.’
Matthew 13:38the field is the world, the good seeds are the children of the Kingdom, and the darnel weeds are the children of the evil one.
John 8:44You are of your father the devil, and you want to do the desires of your father. He was a murderer from the beginning, and doesn’t stand in the truth, because there is no truth in him. When he speaks a lie, he speaks on his own; for he is a liar, and the father of lies.
2 Corinthians 1:17When I therefore planned this, did I show fickleness? Or the things that I plan, do I plan according to the flesh, that with me there should be the “Yes, yes” and the “No, no?”
Colossians 3:9Don’t lie to one another, seeing that you have put off the old man with his doings,
2 Thessalonians 3:3But the Lord is faithful, who will establish you and guard you from the evil 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 →