Matthew 5:37

American King James Version (1999)

But let your communication be, Yes, yes; No, no: for whatever is more than these comes of evil.

Cross References

Matthew 13:19

When any one hears the word of the kingdom, and understands it not, then comes the wicked one, and catches away that which was sown in his heart. This is he which received seed by the way side.

Matthew 13:38

The field is the world; the good seed are the children of the kingdom; but the tares are the children of the wicked one;

Matthew 15:19

For out of the heart proceed evil thoughts, murders, adulteries, fornications, thefts, false witness, blasphemies:

Matthew 5:36

Neither shall you swear by your head, because you can not make one hair white or black.

Matthew 6:13

And lead us not into temptation, but deliver us from evil: For your is the kingdom, and the power, and the glory, for ever. Amen.

John 17:15

I pray not that you should take them out of the world, but that you should keep them from the evil.

John 8:44

You are of your father the devil, and the lusts of your father you will do. He was a murderer from the beginning, and stayed not in the truth, because there is no truth in him. When he speaks a lie, he speaks of his own: for he is a liar, and the father of it.

Ephesians 4:25

Why putting away lying, speak every man truth with his neighbor: for we are members one of another.

Ephesians 6:16

Above all, taking the shield of faith, with which you shall be able to quench all the fiery darts of the wicked.

Colossians 3:9

Lie not one to another, seeing that you have put off the old man with his deeds;

Colossians 4:6

Let your speech be always with grace, seasoned with salt, that you may know how you ought to answer every man.

2 Thessalonians 3:3

But the Lord is faithful, who shall establish you, and keep you from evil.

James 5:12

But above all things, my brothers, swear not, neither by heaven, neither by the earth, neither by any other oath: but let your yes be yes; and your no, no; lest you fall into condemnation.

1 John 2:13

I write to you, fathers, because you have known him that is 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 Cain, who was of that wicked one, and slew his brother. And why slew he him? Because his own works were evil, and his brother's righteous.

1 John 5:18

We know that whoever is born of God sins not; but he that is begotten of God keeps himself, and that wicked one touches him not.