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
Therefore I resolved this, much less did I use levity: or what I resolve, do I resolve according to the flesh, that there be with me yea, yea, and nay, nay
Colossians 4:6
Your word always in grace, Seasoned with salt, to know how it is fitting for you to answer one another.
James 5:12
And before all things, my brethren, swear not, neither by heaven, nor by earth, nor any other oath: and let your yea be yea; and nay, nay; that ye fall not under. judgment.
Cometh
Matthew 13:19
Every one hearing, and not understanding, the evil one comes, and carries off that sown in his heart. This is he having sown by the way.
Matthew 15:19
For from the heart come forth evil reflections, slaughters, adulteries, fornications, thefts, false testimonies, defamations:
John 8:44
Ye are of your father the devil, and the eager desires of your father will ye do. He was slaying men from the beginning, and stood not in the truth, for there is no truth in him. When he would speak a lie, he speaks of his own things; for he is a liar, and the father of him.
Ephesians 4:25
Wherefore falsehood ye having put away, speak the truth each with his neighbor: for ye are members one of another.
Colossians 3:9
Lie not to one another, having put off the old man with big deeds;
James 5:12
And before all things, my brethren, swear not, neither by heaven, nor by earth, nor any other oath: and let your yea be yea; and nay, nay; that ye fall not under. judgment.