Matthew 5:37
But let your language be, `Yes, yes,' or `No, no.' Anything in excess of this comes from the Evil one.
Weymouth NT (1912)
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
36And do not swear by your head, for you cannot make one hair white or black.
38"You have heard that it was said, `Eye for eye, tooth for tooth.'
Cross References
Matthew 6:13and bring us not into temptation, but rescue us from the Evil one.'
Matthew 13:38the field is the world; the good seed--these are the sons of the Kingdom; the darnel, the sons of the Evil one.
John 8:44The father whose sons you are is the Devil; and you desire to do what gives him pleasure. *He* was a murderer from the beginning, and does not stand firm in the truth--for there is no truth in him. Whenever he utters his lie, he utters it out of his own store; for he is a liar, and the father of lies.
2 Corinthians 1:17Did I display any vacillation or caprice in this? Or the purposes which I form--do I form them on worldly principles, now crying "Yes, yes," and now "No, no"?
Colossians 3:9Do not speak falsehoods to one another, for you have stripped off the old self with its doings,
2 Thessalonians 3:3But the Lord is faithful, and He will make you stedfast and will 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 →