Matthew 5:37

Let your 'Yes' be 'Yes' and your 'No' be 'No'; more than this is from the evil one. It calls for simple, reliable truthfulness.

Cross-references · 15

• Jas 5:12But above all things, my brethren, swear not, neither by heaven, neither by the earth, neither by any other oath: but let your yea be yea; and your nay, nay; lest ye fall into condemnation.
• Col 4:6Let your speech be alway with grace, seasoned with salt, that ye may know how ye ought to answer every man.
• Col 3:9Lie not one to another, seeing that ye have put off the old man with his deeds;
• 2 Cor 1:17–20When I therefore was thus minded, did I use lightness? or the things that I purpose, do I purpose according to the flesh, that with me there should be yea yea, and nay nay?
• John 8:44Ye are of your father the devil, and the lusts of your father ye will do. He was a murderer from the beginning, and abode not in the truth, because 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.
• Eph 4:25Wherefore putting away lying, speak every man truth with his neighbour: for we are members one of another.
• 2 Th 3:3But the Lord is faithful, who shall stablish you, and keep you from evil.
• Matt 13:19When any one heareth the word of the kingdom, and understandeth it not, then cometh the wicked one, and catcheth away that which was sown in his heart. This is he which received seed by the way side.
• Matt 13:38The field is the world; the good seed are the children of the kingdom; but the tares are the children of the wicked one;
• Matt 6:13And lead us not into temptation, but deliver us from evil: For thine is the kingdom, and the power, and the glory, for ever. Amen.
• 1 Jn 5:18We know that whosoever is born of God sinneth not; but he that is begotten of God keepeth himself, and that wicked one toucheth him not.
• 1 Jn 2:13I write unto you, fathers, because ye have known him that is from the beginning. I write unto you, young men, because ye have overcome the wicked one. I write unto you, little children, because ye have known the Father.
• 1 Jn 3:12Not as Cain, who was of that wicked one, and slew his brother. And wherefore slew he him? Because his own works were evil, and his brother’s righteous.
• John 17:15I pray not that thou shouldest take them out of the world, but that thou shouldest keep them from the evil.
• Matt 15:19For out of the heart proceed evil thoughts, murders, adulteries, fornications, thefts, false witness, blasphemies:

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