Treasury of Scripture Knowledge
Summary
But let your communication be, Yea, yea; Nay, nay: for whatsoever is more than these cometh of evil.
Bible References
Let
2 Corinthians 1:17
Such 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 4:6
Let your discourse be always gracious, seasoned with salt, that ye may know how ye ought to reply to every man.
James 5:12
But above all things, my brethren, swear not, neither by heaven, nor by earth, nor by any other oath: but let your yea be yea, and your no, no; that ye fall not under condemnation.
Cometh
Matthew 13:19
When any person heareth the word of the kingdom, and doth not understand it, the wicked one cometh, and snatcheth away what was sown on his heart: such is he who is the sown by the road-side.
Matthew 15:19
for out of the heart proceed wicked reasonings, murders, adulteries, whoredoms, thefts, false testimonies, blasphemies:
John 8:44
Ye 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.
Ephesians 4:25
Wherefore putting away lying, speak truth, every one with his neighbour: for we are members one of another.
Colossians 3:9
Lie not one to another, seeing ye have put off the old man with his practices;
James 5:12
But above all things, my brethren, swear not, neither by heaven, nor by earth, nor by any other oath: but let your yea be yea, and your no, no; that ye fall not under condemnation.