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

But {G1161} let {G2077} your {G5216} communication {G3056} be {G2077}, Yea {G3483}, yea {G3483}; Nay {G3756}, nay {G3756}: for {G1161} whatsoever is more {G4053} than these {G5130} cometh {G2076} of {G1537} evil {G4190}.

Just let your `Yes' be a simple `Yes,' and your `No' a simple `No'; anything more than this has its origin in evil.

Simply let your ‘Yes’ be ‘Yes,’ and your ‘No,’ ‘No.’ Anything more comes from the evil one.

But let your speech be, Yea, yea; Nay, nay: and whatsoever is more than these is of the evil one.

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Cross-References

  • James 5:12 (45 votes)

    ¶ 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.

  • Colossians 4:6 (24 votes)

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

  • Colossians 3:9 (20 votes)

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

  • 2 Corinthians 1:17 (18 votes)

    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?

  • 2 Corinthians 1:20 (18 votes)

    For all the promises of God in him [are] yea, and in him Amen, unto the glory of God by us.

  • John 8:44 (15 votes)

    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 (13 votes)

    Wherefore putting away lying, speak every man truth with his neighbour: for we are members one of another.