Matthew 5:37 - The Text-Critical English New Testament

³⁷ But let your ‘Yes’ be ‘Yes’ and your ‘No’ be ‘No’; for whatever is more than these is from the evil one.

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King James Version (Oxford) 1769

³⁷ But let your communication be, Yea, yea; Nay, nay: for whatsoever is more than these cometh of evil.

Amplified Bible - Classic Edition

³⁷ Let your Yes be simply Yes, and your No be simply No; anything more than that comes from the evil one. [Lev. 19:12; Num. 30:2; Deut. 23:21.]

American Standard Version (1901)

³⁷ But let your speech be, Yea, yea; Nay, nay: and whatsoever is more than these is of the evil one.

Common English Bible

³⁷ Let your yes mean yes, and your no mean no. Anything more than this comes from the evil one.

Catholic Public Domain Version

³⁷ But let your word 'Yes' mean 'Yes,' and 'No' mean 'No.' For anything beyond that is of evil.

Matthew 5:37 Cross References

Matthew 13:19

When anyone hears the word of the kingdom and does not understand it, the evil one comes and snatches away what was sown in his heart. This is the seed sown along the path.

Matthew 13:38

The field is the world, and the good seeds are the sons of the kingdom. The tares are the sons of the evil one,

Matthew 15:19

For from the heart come evil thoughts, murder, adultery, fornication, theft, false testimony, and slander.

Matthew 5:36

Neither shall yoʋ swear by yoʋr head, for yoʋ cannot make one hair white or black.

Matthew 6:13

And lead us not into temptation, but deliver us from evil. For yoʋrs is the kingdom and the power and the glory forever. Amen.

John 17:15

I do not ask yoʋ to take them out of the world, but to keep them from the evil one.

John 8:44

You belong to your father the devil, and you want to carry out your father's desires. He was a murderer from the beginning and does not stand in the truth, because there is no truth in him. When he speaks lies, he speaks from his own character, because he is a liar and the father of lies.

Ephesians 4:25

Therefore, having laid aside falsehood, each of you must speak the truth with his neighbor, because we are members of one another.

Ephesians 6:16

Above all, take up the shield of faith, with which you will be able to extinguish all the flaming arrows of the evil one.

Colossians 3:9

Do not lie to one another, since you have put off the old self with its practices

Colossians 4:6

Let your speech always be with grace, seasoned with salt, so that you may know how to answer each person.

2 Thessalonians 3:3

But the Lord is faithful; he will establish you and guard you from the evil one.

James 5:12

Above all, my brothers, do not swear, neither by heaven, nor by earth, nor by any other oath. But let your “Yes” be “Yes” and your “No” be “No,” so that you will not fall into hypocrisy.

1 John 2:13

I am writing to you, fathers, because you know him who is from the beginning. I am writing to you, young men, because you have overcome the evil one. I am writing to you, children, because you know the Father.

1 John 3:12

We should not be like Cain, who was of the evil one and murdered his brother. And why did he murder him? Because his own deeds were evil, but the deeds of his brother were righteous.

1 John 5:18

We know that no one who has been born of God continues in sin, but he who is born of God guards himself, and the evil one does not touch him.