Matthew 5:37 - English Majority Text Version 2009

³⁷ But let your word be 'Yes', 'yes,'; [or ]'No,' '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, then the evil [one] comes and snatches away what was sown in his heart. This is the [seed] being sown beside the road.

Matthew 13:38

And the field is the world, and the good seed, these are the sons of the kingdom, but the tares are the sons of the evil [one].

Matthew 15:19

For out of the heart come forth evil thoughts, murders, adulteries, fornications, thefts, false witness, blasphemies.

Matthew 5:36

Nor shall you swear by your head, because you are not able to make one hair white or black.

Matthew 6:13

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

John 17:15

I do not ask that You should take them out of the world, but that You should keep them from the evil [one].

John 8:44

You are of your father the devil, and the lusts of your father you desire 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 tells a lie, he speaks from his own [resources], for he is a liar, and the father of lies.

Ephesians 4:25

Therefore, having put off falsehood, "Let each one speak truth with his neighbor,"for we are members of one another.

Ephesians 6:16

above all, taking up the shield of faith, with which you will be able to quench all the flaming arrows of the evil one.

Colossians 3:9

Do not lie to one another, since you have stripped off the old man with his practices,

Colossians 4:6

Let your word always be with grace, having been seasoned with salt, to know how you ought to answer each [one].

2 Thessalonians 3:3

But the Lord is faithful, who will establish you and will guard you from the evil one.

James 5:12

But above all, my brothers, do not swear, neither by heaven nor the earth, nor any other oath. But let your "Yes"be "Yes,"and [your] "No,""No,"so that you may not fall into hypocrisy.

1 John 2:13

I am writing to you, fathers, because you have come to 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, little children, because you have come to know the Father.

1 John 3:12

not as Cain who was of the evil one and slew his brother. And for what reason did he slay him? Because his works were evil and the [works] of his brother were righteous.

1 John 5:18

We know that everyone begotten of God does not sin; but he that was begotten of God keeps himself, and the evil [one] does not touch him.