Matthew 5:37

Young's Literal Translation (1862/1898)

but let your word be, Yes, Yes, No, No, and that which is more than these is of the evil.

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Referenced Verses

  • Jas 5:12 : 12 And before all things, my brethren, do not swear, neither by the heaven, neither by the earth, neither by any other oath, and let your Yes be Yes, and the No, No; that under judgment ye may not fall.
  • Matt 13:19 : 19 Every one hearing the word of the reign, and not understanding -- the evil one doth come, and doth catch that which hath been sown in his heart; this is that sown by the way.
  • Matt 13:38 : 38 and the field is the world, and the good seed, these are the sons of the reign, and the darnel are the sons of the evil one,
  • 2 Cor 1:17-20 : 17 This, therefore, counselling, did I then use the lightness; or the things that I counsel, according to the flesh do I counsel, that it may be with me Yes, yes, and No, no? 18 and God `is' faithful, that our word unto you became not Yes and No, 19 for the Son of God, Jesus Christ, among you through us having been preached -- through me and Silvanus and Timotheus -- did not become Yes and No, but in him it hath become Yes; 20 for as many as `are' promises of God, in him `are' the Yes, and in him the Amen, for glory to God through us;
  • Col 3:9 : 9 Lie not one to another, having put off the old man with his practices,
  • Col 4:6 : 6 your word always in grace -- with salt being seasoned -- to know how it behoveth you to answer each one.
  • 2 Thess 3:3 : 3 and stedfast is the Lord, who shall establish you, and shall guard `you' from the evil;
  • Eph 4:25 : 25 Wherefore, putting away the lying, speak truth each with his neighbour, because we are members one of another;
  • Matt 15:19 : 19 for out of the heart come forth evil thoughts, murders, adulteries, whoredoms, thefts, false witnessings, evil speakings:
  • John 8:44 : 44 `Ye are of a father -- the devil, and the desires of your father ye will to do; he was a man-slayer from the beginning, and in the truth he hath not stood, because there is no truth in him; when one may speak the falsehood, of his own he speaketh, because he is a liar -- also his father.
  • John 17:15 : 15 I do not ask that Thou mayest take them out of the world, but that Thou mayest keep them out of the evil.
  • 1 John 2:13 : 13 I write to you, fathers, because ye have known him who `is' from the beginning; I write to you, young men, because ye have overcome the evil. I write to you, little youths, because ye have known the Father:
  • 1 John 5:18 : 18 We have known that every one who hath been begotten of God doth not sin, but he who was begotten of God doth keep himself, and the evil one doth not touch him;
  • Matt 6:13 : 13 `And mayest Thou not lead us to temptation, but deliver us from the evil, because Thine is the reign, and the power, and the glory -- to the ages. Amen.
  • 1 John 3:12 : 12 not as Cain -- of the evil one he was, and he did slay his brother, and wherefore did he slay him? because his works were evil, and those of his brother righteous.

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    12And before all things, my brethren, do not swear, neither by the heaven, neither by the earth, neither by any other oath, and let your Yes be Yes, and the No, No; that under judgment ye may not fall.

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    38`Ye heard that it was said: Eye for eye, and tooth for tooth;

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  • Matt 5:33-34
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    36nor by thy head mayest thou swear, because thou art not able one hair to make white or black;

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    17This, therefore, counselling, did I then use the lightness; or the things that I counsel, according to the flesh do I counsel, that it may be with me Yes, yes, and No, no?

    18and God `is' faithful, that our word unto you became not Yes and No,

    19for the Son of God, Jesus Christ, among you through us having been preached -- through me and Silvanus and Timotheus -- did not become Yes and No, but in him it hath become Yes;

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    4`Or when a person sweareth, speaking wrongfully with the lips to do evil, or to do good, even anything which man speaketh wrongfully with an oath, and it hath been hid from him; -- when he hath known then he hath been guilty of one of these;

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    35The good man out of the good treasure of the heart doth put forth the good things, and the evil man out of the evil treasure doth put forth evil things.

    36`And I say to you, that every idle word that men may speak, they shall give for it a reckoning in a day of judgment;

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    17And each the evil of his neighbour ye do not devise in your heart, And a false oath ye do not love, For all these `are' things that I have hated, An affirmation of Jehovah.'

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    26verily I say to thee, thou mayest not come forth thence till that thou mayest pay the last farthing.

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  • Eccl 5:5-6
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    5Better that thou do not vow, than that thou dost vow and dost not complete.

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    13Keep thy tongue from evil, And thy lips from speaking deceit.

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    29Let no corrupt word out of your mouth go forth, but what is good unto the needful building up, that it may give grace to the hearers;

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    20`For I say to you, that if your righteousness may not abound above that of the scribes and Pharisees, ye may not enter to the reign of the heavens.

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    22but I -- I say to you, that every one who is angry at his brother without cause, shall be in danger of the judgment, and whoever may say to his brother, Empty fellow! shall be in danger of the sanhedrim, and whoever may say, Rebel! shall be in danger of the gehenna of the fire.

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    6Add not to His words, lest He reason with thee, And thou hast been found false.

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    10out of the same mouth doth come forth blessing and cursing; it doth not need, my brethren, these things so to happen;

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    4let it not be! and let God become true, and every man false, according as it hath been written, `That Thou mayest be declared righteous in Thy words, and mayest overcome in Thy being judged.'

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    2Cause not thy mouth to hasten, and let not thy heart hasten to bring out a word before God, for God is in the heavens, and thou on the earth, therefore let thy words be few.

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    19for out of the heart come forth evil thoughts, murders, adulteries, whoredoms, thefts, false witnessings, evil speakings:

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    22from all appearance of evil abstain ye;

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