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, therefore, I was purposing this, did I manifest fickleness or the things which I purpose, do I purpose according to the flesh, that with me there should be the "Yea, yea," and the "Nay, nay?"
Colossians 4:6
Let your speech be always with grace, seasoned with salt, that ye may know how ye ought to answer each one.
James 5:12
But above all things, my brethren, swear not, either by Heaven, or by earth, or by any other oath; but let yours be "the yes, yes," and "the no, no"; that ye fall not under condemnation.
Cometh
Matthew 13:19
When any one hears the word of the Kingdom, and understands it not, the evil one comes, and snatches away what has been sown in his heart: this is he that was sown by the wayside.
Matthew 15:19
For out of the heart come forth evil thoughts, murders, adulteries, fornications, thefts, false-witnessings, blasphemies:
John 8:44
Ye are of your father the Devil; and the desires of your father ye wish to do. He was a murderer from the beginning, and has not stood in the truth, because there is no truth in him. When he speaks a lie, he speaks of his own; because he is a liar, and the father of it.
Ephesians 4:25
Wherefore, having put away false-hood, speak ye truth each one with his neighbor, because we are members one of another.
Colossians 3:9
Lie not one to another, having put off the old man with his practices,
James 5:12
But above all things, my brethren, swear not, either by Heaven, or by earth, or by any other oath; but let yours be "the yes, yes," and "the no, no"; that ye fall not under condemnation.