Matthew 5:37

Webster Bible (1833)

But let your communication be, Yea, yea, Nay, nay: for whatever is more than these cometh of evil.

Cross References

Matthew 13:19

When any one heareth the word of the kingdom, and understandeth it not, then cometh the wicked one, and catcheth away that which was sown in his heart. This is he who 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 shalt thou swear by thy head, because thou canst not make one hair white or black.

Matthew 6:13

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

John 17:15

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

John 8:44

Ye are of your father the devil, and the lusts of your father ye will do: he was a murderer from the beginning, and abode 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 of it.

Ephesians 4:25

Wherefore 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 ye will be able to extinguish all the fiery darts of the wicked.

Colossians 3:9

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

Colossians 4:6

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

2 Thessalonians 3:3

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

James 5:12

But above all things, my brethren, swear not, neither by heaven, neither by the earth, neither by any other oath: but let your yea, be yea: and your nay, nay; lest ye fall into condemnation.

1 John 2:13

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

1 John 3:12

Not as Cain, who was of that wicked one, and slew his brother. And why did he slay him? Because his own works were evil, and his brother's righteous.

1 John 5:18

We know that whoever is born of God, sinneth not; but he that is begotten of God, keepeth himself, and that wicked one toucheth him not.