Matthew 5:37
But let your communication be, Yea, yea, Nay, nay: for whatever is more than these cometh of evil.
Webster 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 shalt thou swear by thy head, because thou canst not make one hair white or black.
38Ye have heard that it hath been said, An eye for an eye, and a tooth for a 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. Amen.
Matthew 13:38The field is the world; the good seed are the children of the kingdom; but the tares are the children of the wicked one ;
John 8:44Ye are of your father the devil, and the lusts of your father ye will do: he was a murderer from the beginning, and abode 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 of it.
2 Corinthians 1:17When I therefore was thus minded, did I use levity? or the things that I purpose, do I purpose according to 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 deeds;
2 Thessalonians 3:3But the Lord is faithful, who will establish you, and keep 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 →