Matthew 5:37

New American Bible - revised edition

Let your ‘Yes’ mean ‘Yes,’ and your ‘No’ mean ‘No.’ Anything more is from the evil one. Teaching About Retaliation.

Cross References

Matthew 13:19

The seed sown on the path is the one who hears the word of the kingdom without understanding it, and the evil one comes and steals away what was sown in his heart.

Matthew 13:38

the field is the world, the good seed the children of the kingdom. The weeds are the children of the evil one,

Matthew 15:19

For from the heart come evil thoughts, murder, adultery, unchastity, theft, false witness, blasphemy.

Matthew 5:36

Do not swear by your head, for you cannot make a single hair white or black.

Matthew 6:13

and do not subject us to the final test, but deliver us from the evil one.

John 17:15

I do not ask that you take them out of the world but that you keep them from the evil one.

John 8:44

You belong to your father the devil and you willingly carry out your father’s desires. He was a murderer from the beginning and does not stand in truth, because there is no truth in him. When he tells a lie, he speaks in character, because he is a liar and the father of lies.

Ephesians 4:25

Therefore, putting away falsehood, speak the truth, each one to his neighbor, for we are members one of another.

Ephesians 6:16

In all circumstances, hold faith as a shield, to quench all [the] flaming arrows of the evil one.

Colossians 3:9

Stop lying to one another, since you have taken off the old self with its practices

Colossians 4:6

Let your speech always be gracious, seasoned with salt, so that you know how you should respond to each one. Tychicus and Onesimus.

2 Thessalonians 3:3

But the Lord is faithful; he will strengthen you and guard you from the evil one.

James 5:12

But above all, my brothers, do not swear, either by heaven or by earth or with any other oath, but let your “Yes” mean “Yes” and your “No” mean “No,” that you may not incur condemnation. Anointing of the Sick.

1 John 2:13

I am writing to you, fathers, because you know him who is from the beginning. I am writing to you, young men, because you have conquered the evil one.

1 John 3:12

unlike Cain who belonged to the evil one and slaughtered his brother. Why did he slaughter him? Because his own works were evil, and those of his brother righteous.

1 John 5:18

We know that no one begotten by God sins; but the one begotten by God he protects, and the evil one cannot touch him.