Matthew 5:37
But let your speech be, Yea, yea; Nay, nay: and whatsoever is more than these is of the evil one.
Revised Version 1895
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, An eye for an eye, and a tooth for a tooth:
Cross References
Matthew 6:13And bring us not into temptation, but deliver us from the evil one.
Matthew 13:38and the field is the world; and the good seed, these are the sons of the kingdom; and the tares are the sons of the evil one;
John 8:44Ye are of your father the devil, and the lusts of your father it is your will to do. He was a murderer from the beginning, and stood not in the truth, because there is no truth in him. When he speaketh a lie, he speaketh of his own: for he is a liar, and the father thereof.
2 Corinthians 1:17When I therefore was thus minded, did I shew fickleness? or the things that I purpose, do I purpose according to the flesh, that with me there should be the yea yea and the nay nay?
Colossians 3:9lie not one to another; seeing that ye have put off the old man with his doings,
2 Thessalonians 3:3But the Lord is faithful, who shall stablish 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 →