Matthew 5:37
But let your discourse be, Yea, yea; No, no: for all addition to these is from the wicked one.
Thomas Haweis 1795 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
36neither shalt thou swear by thy head, for thou canst not make one hair white or black.
38Ye have heard that it was said, “Eye for eye, and tooth for tooth:”
Cross References
Matthew 6:13And lead us not into temptation; but deliver us from evil: for thine is the kingdom, and the power, and the glory, for ever and ever. Amen!
Matthew 13:38the field is the world: and the good seed are those who are the children of the kingdom; but the zizane are the children of the wicked one;
John 8:44Ye are of your father the devil, and the lusts of your father ye will practise. He was a murderer from the beginning, and stood not fast in the truth, because truth was not in him. When he speaketh a lie, he speaketh what is peculiarly his own: for he is a liar, and the father of it.
2 Corinthians 1:17Such then being my intention, did I indeed change it with levity? or the things which I purpose, do I purpose after the flesh, that with me there should be yea, yea, and nay, nay?
Colossians 3:9Lie not one to another, seeing ye have put off the old man with his practices;
2 Thessalonians 3:3But the Lord is faithful, who will stablish you, and keep you from the wicked 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 →