Matthew 5:37

King James Version with Strong's Numbers

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

📖 Grammatical Analysis

Original Text

Ἔστω δὲ ὁ λόγος ὑμῶν, Ναὶ, ναί· Οὒ, οὔ: τὸ δὲ περισσὸν τούτων ἐκ τοῦ πονηροῦ ἐστιν.

Transliteration

Estō de the logos of-you, Nai, nai; Ou, ou: the de perisson of-these from the ponērou estin.

Grammar Details

• *Estō*: present active imperative, 3rd person singular - let it be!
• *de*: postpositive conjunction - but/and
• *logos*: nominative masculine singular - word/speech
• *Nai*: adverb - yes
• *Ou*: adverb - no
• *perisson*: nominative neuter singular - excess/abundance
• *ponērou*: genitive masculine/neuter singular - of evil/evil one
• *estin*: present active indicative, 3rd person singular - is

Word Meanings

• *Estō*: let it be/be
• *logos*: word/speech/statement
• *Nai*: yes/indeed/truly
• *Ou*: no/not
• *perisson*: excess/abundance/surplus
• *ponērou*: evil one/evil/wicked (could refer to Satan or to evil in general)

Referenced Verses

• Jas 5:12 : 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.
• Matt 13:19 : 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 which received seed by the way side.
• Matt 13:38 : 38 {G1161} The field is the world; the good seed are the children of the kingdom; but the tares are the children of the wicked one;
• 2 Cor 1:17-20 : 17 When I therefore was thus minded, did I use lightness? or the things that I purpose, do I purpose according to the flesh, that with me there should be yea yea, and nay nay? 18 But as God is true, our word toward you was not yea and nay. 19 For the Son of God, Jesus Christ, who was preached among you by us, even by me and Silvanus and Timotheus, was not yea and nay, but in him was yea. 20 For all the promises of God in him are yea, and in him Amen, unto the glory of God by us.
• Col 3:9 : 9 Lie not one to another, seeing that ye have put off the old man with his deeds;
• Col 4:6 : 6 Let your speech be alway with grace, seasoned with salt, that ye may know how ye ought to answer every man.
• 2 Thess 3:3 : 3 But the Lord is faithful, who shall stablish you, and keep you from evil.
• Eph 4:25 : 25 Wherefore putting away lying, speak every man truth with his neighbour: for we are members one of another.
• Matt 15:19 : 19 For out of the heart proceed evil thoughts, murders, adulteries, fornications, thefts, false witness, blasphemies:
• John 8:44 : 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.
• John 17:15 : 15 I pray not that thou shouldest take them out of the world, but that thou shouldest keep them from the evil.
• 1 John 2:13 : 13 I write unto you, fathers, because ye have known him that is from the beginning. I write unto you, young men, because ye have overcome the wicked one. I write unto you, little children, because ye have known the Father.
• 1 John 5:18 : 18 We know that whosoever is born of God sinneth not; but he that is begotten of God keepeth himself, and that wicked one toucheth him not.
• Matt 6:13 : 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.
• 1 John 3:12 : 12 Not as Cain, who was of that wicked one, and slew his brother. And wherefore slew he him? Because his own works were evil, and his brother's righteous.