Matthew 5:37

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Summary

Matthew 5:37

But let your communication be, Yea, yea; Nay, nay: for whatsoever is more than these cometh of evil.

Let

2 Corinthians 1:17

Colossians 4:6

James 5:12

Cometh

Bible References

Let

Now when I was thus minded, did I use levity? or the things which I purpose, do I purpose according to the flesh, so that there should be with me yea and nay?

Let your speech be always with grace, seasoned with salt, that ye may know how ye ought to answer every one.

But above all things, my brethren, swear not, neither by heaven, nor by the earth, nor by any other oath; but let your yea be yea, and your nay nay, lest ye fall into condemnation.

Cometh

and considereth it not, the wicked one cometh, and catcheth away what was sown in his heart. This is he who received seed by the way-side.

For out of the heart proceed evil thoughts, murders, adulteries, fornications, thefts, false witness, railings.

Ye are of your father the devil, and your will is, to do the desires of your father. He was a murderer from the beginning, and abode not in the truth; for 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.

Wherefore putting away lying, speak every man truth with his neighbour; for we are members one of another.

Lie not one to another, seeing ye have put off the old man with his deeds,

But above all things, my brethren, swear not, neither by heaven, nor by the earth, nor by any other oath; but let your yea be yea, and your nay nay, lest ye fall into condemnation.