Matthew 5:37

Douay-Rheims version of The Bible - 1752 version

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

Cross References

James 5:12

But above all things, my brethren, swear not, neither by heaven, nor by the earth, nor by any other oath. But let your speech be, yea, yea: no, no: that you fall not under judgment.

Colossians 4:6

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

Colossians 3:9

Lie not one to another: stripping yourselves of the old man with his deeds,

John 8:44

You are of your father the devil, and the desires of your father you will do. He was a murderer from the beginning, and he stood not in the truth; because truth is not 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 lying, speak ye the truth every man with his neighbour; for we are members one of another.

2 Thessalonians 3:3

But God is faithful, who will strengthen and keep you from evil.

Matthew 13:19

When any one heareth the word of the kingdom, and understandeth it not, there cometh the wicked one, and catcheth away that which was sown in his heart: this is he that received the seed by the way side.

Matthew 13:38

And the field, is the world. And the good seed are the children of the kingdom. And the cockle, are the children of the wicked one.

1 John 5:18

We know that whosoever is born of God, sinneth not: but the generation of God preserveth him, and the wicked one toucheth him not.

Matthew 6:13

And lead us not into temptation. But deliver us from evil. Amen.

1 John 2:13

I write unto you, fathers, because you have known him, who is from the beginning. I write unto you, young men, because you have overcome the wicked one.

1 John 3:12

Not as Cain, who was of the wicked one, and killed his brother. And wherefore did he kill him? Because his own works were wicked: and his brother's just.

John 17:15

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

Matthew 15:19

For from the heart come forth evil thoughts, murders, adulteries, fornications, thefts, false testimonies, blasphemies.

Matthew 5:36

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

Ephesians 6:16

In all things taking the shield of faith, wherewith you may be able to extinguish all the fiery darts of the most wicked one.