When anyone hears the word about the kingdom and doesn’t understand it, the evil one comes and snatches away what was sown in his heart. This is the one sown along the path.
Matthew 5:37 - Christian Standard Bible Anglicised But let your “yes” mean “yes,” and your “no” mean “no”. Anything more than this is from the evil one. Tuilleadh leaganachaKing James Version (Oxford) 1769 But let your communication be, Yea, yea; Nay, nay: for whatsoever is more than these cometh of evil. Amplified Bible - Classic Edition 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) But let your speech be, Yea, yea; Nay, nay: and whatsoever is more than these is of the evil one. Common English Bible Let your yes mean yes, and your no mean no. Anything more than this comes from the evil one. Catholic Public Domain Version 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 But let your speech be yea, yea: no, no: and that which is over and above these, is of evil. |
When anyone hears the word about the kingdom and doesn’t understand it, the evil one comes and snatches away what was sown in his heart. This is the one sown along the path.
the field is the world; and the good seed #– #these are the children of the kingdom. The weeds are the children of the evil one,
For from the heart come evil thoughts, murders, adulteries, sexual immoralities, thefts, false testimonies, slander.
Do not swear by your head, because you cannot make a single hair white or black.
And do not bring us into temptation, but deliver us from the evil one. ,
I am not praying that you take them out of the world but that you protect them from the evil one.
You are of your father the devil, and you want to carry out your father’s desires. He was a murderer from the beginning and does not stand in the truth, because there is no truth in him. When he tells a lie, he speaks from his own nature, because he is a liar and the father of lies.
Therefore, putting away lying, speak the truth, each one to his neighbour, , because we are members of one another.
In every situation take up the shield of faith with which you can extinguish all the flaming arrows of the evil one.
Do not lie to one another, since you have put off the old self with its practices
Let your speech always be gracious, seasoned with salt, so that you may know how you should answer each person.
But the Lord is faithful; he will strengthen you and guard you from the evil one.
Above all, my brothers and sisters, 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,’ so that you won’t fall under judgement.
I am writing to you, fathers, because you have come to know the one who is from the beginning. I am writing to you, young men, because you have conquered the evil one.
unlike Cain, who was of the evil one and murdered his brother. And why did he murder him? Because his deeds were evil, and his brother’s were righteous.
We know that everyone who has been born of God does not sin, but the one who is born of God keeps him, , and the evil one does not touch him.