Matthew 5:37
"But let your communication be, Yea, yea; Nay, nay: for whatsoever is more than these cometh of evil."
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- 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."
Read in chapter → - Colossians 4:6
"Let your speech be alway with grace, seasoned with salt, that ye may know how ye ought to answer every man."
Read in chapter → - Colossians 3:9
"Lie not one to another, seeing that ye have put off the old man with his deeds;"
Read in chapter → - 2 Corinthians 1:17
"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?"
Read in chapter → - 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."
Read in chapter → - Ephesians 4:25
"Wherefore putting away lying, speak every man truth with his neighbour: for we are members one of another."
Read in chapter → - 2 Thessalonians 3:3
"But the Lord is faithful, who shall stablish you, and keep you from evil."
Read in chapter → - 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 which received seed by the way side."
Read in chapter → - 1 John 5:18
"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."
Read in chapter → - 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;"
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