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
When I therefore was thus determined, did I show fickleness? Or the things that I purpose, do I purpose according to the flesh, that with me there should be the "Yes, yes" and the "No, no?"
Colossians 4:6
Let your speech always be with grace, seasoned with salt, that you may know how you ought to answer each one.
James 5:12
But above all things, my brothers, don't swear, neither by heaven, nor by the earth, nor by any other oath; but let your "yes" be "yes," and your "no," "no;" so that you don't fall into hypocrisy.
Cometh
Matthew 13:19
When anyone hears the word of the Kingdom, and doesn't understand it, the evil one comes, and snatches away that which has been sown in his heart. This is what was sown by the roadside.
Matthew 15:19
For out of the heart come forth evil thoughts, murders, adulteries, sexual sins, thefts, false testimony, and blasphemies.
John 8:44
You are of your father, the devil, and you want to do the desires of your father. He was a murderer from the beginning, and doesn't stand in the truth, because there is no truth in him. When he speaks a lie, he speaks on his own; for he is a liar, and its father.
Ephesians 4:25
Therefore, putting away falsehood, speak truth each one with his neighbor. For we are members of one another.
Colossians 3:9
Don't lie to one another, seeing that you have put off the old man with his doings,
James 5:12
But above all things, my brothers, don't swear, neither by heaven, nor by the earth, nor by any other oath; but let your "yes" be "yes," and your "no," "no;" so that you don't fall into hypocrisy.