Matthew 5:37 - The Scriptures 2009

³⁷ “But let your word ‘Yes’ be ‘Yes,’ and your ‘No’ be ‘No.’ And what goes beyond these is from the wicked 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 anyone hears the word of the reign, and does not understand it, then the wicked one comes and snatches away what was sown in his heart. This is that sown by the wayside.

Matthew 13:38

and the field is the world. And the good seed, these are the sons of the reign, but the darnel are the sons of the wicked one,

Matthew 15:19

“For out of the heart come forth wicked reasonings, murders, adulteries, whorings, thefts, false witnessings, slanders.

Matthew 5:36

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

Matthew 6:13

‘And do not lead us into trial, but deliver us from the wicked one – because Yours is the reign and the power and the esteem, forever. Amĕn.’

John 17:15

“I do not pray that You should take them out of the world, but that You keep them from the wicked one.

John 8:44

“You are of your father the devil, and the desires of your father you 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 the lie, he speaks of his own, for he is a liar and the father of it.

Ephesians 4:25

Therefore, having put off the false, speak truth, each one with his neighbour, for we are members of one another.

Ephesians 6:16

above all, having taken up the shield of belief with which you shall have power to quench all the burning arrows of the wicked one.

Colossians 3:9

Do not lie to each other, since you have put off the old man with his practices,

Colossians 4:6

Let your word always be with favour, seasoned with salt, so that you know how you ought to answer each one.

2 Thessalonians 3:3

But the Master is trustworthy, who shall establish you and guard you from the wicked one.

James 5:12

But above all, my brothers, do not swear, either by the heaven or by the earth or with any other oath. But let your Yes be Yes, and your No, No, lest you fall into judgment.

1 John 2:13

I write to you, fathers, because you have known Him from the beginning. I write to you, young men, because you have overcome the wicked one. I write to you, little children, because you have known the Father.

1 John 3:12

not as Qayin who was of the wicked one and killed his brother. And why did he kill him? Because his works were wicked but those of his brother were righteous.

1 John 5:18

We know that everyone having been born of Elohim does not sin, but the one having been born of Elohim guards himself, and the wicked one does not touch him.