Matthew 5:37 - Revised Version with Apocrypha 1895

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

Douay-Rheims version of The Bible - 1752 version

³⁷ But let your speech be yea, yea: no, no: and that which is over and above these, is of evil.

Matthew 5:37 Cross References

Matthew 13:19

When any one heareth the word of the kingdom, and understandeth it not, then cometh the evil one, and snatcheth away that which hath been sown in his heart. This is he that was sown by the way side.

Matthew 13:38

and the field is the world; and the good seed, these are the sons of the kingdom; and 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, railings:

Matthew 5:36

Neither shalt thou swear by thy head, for thou canst not make one hair white or black.

Matthew 6:13

And bring us not into temptation, but deliver us from the evil one.

John 17:15

I pray not that thou shouldest take them from the world, but that thou shouldest keep them from the evil one.

John 8:44

Ye are of your father the devil, and the lusts of your father it is your will to do. He was a murderer from the beginning, and stood 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 thereof.

Ephesians 4:25

Wherefore, putting away falsehood, speak ye truth each one with his neighbour: for we are members one of another.

Ephesians 6:16

withal taking up the shield of faith, wherewith ye shall be able to quench all the fiery darts of the evil one.

Colossians 3:9

lie not one to another; seeing that ye have put off the old man with his doings,

Colossians 4:6

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

2 Thessalonians 3:3

But the Lord is faithful, who shall stablish you, and guard you from the evil one.

James 5:12

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

1 John 2:13

I write unto you, fathers, because ye know him which is from the beginning. I write unto you, young men, because ye have overcome the evil one. I have written unto you, little children, because ye know the Father.

1 John 3:12

not as Cain was of the evil one, and slew his brother. And wherefore slew he him? Because his works were evil, and his brother's righteous.

1 John 5:18

We know that whosoever is begotten of God sinneth not; but he that was begotten of God keepeth him, and the evil one toucheth him not.