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Matthew 5:37
But let your ‘Yes’ be ‘Yes’ and your ‘No’ be ‘No.’ Whatever is more than these is of the evil one.

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Matthew 5:34
but I tell you, don’t swear at all: neither by heaven, for it is the throne of God;

James 5:12
But above all things, my brothers, don’t swear— not by heaven, or by the earth, or by any other oath; but let your “yes” be “yes”, and your “no”, “no”, so that you don’t fall into hypocrisy.

Exodus 20:7
“You shall not misuse the name of Yahweh your God, for Yahweh will not hold him guiltless who misuses his name.

Deuteronomy 6:13
You shall fear Yahweh your God; and you shall serve him, and shall swear by his name.

Matthew 26:63
But Jesus stayed silent. The high priest answered him, “I adjure you by the living God that you tell us whether you are the Christ, the Son of God.”

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Matthew 23:16
“Woe to you, you blind guides, who say, ‘Whoever swears by the temple, it is nothing; but whoever swears by the gold of the temple, he is obligated.’

Matthew 23:17
You blind fools! For which is greater, the gold or the temple that sanctifies the gold?

Matthew 23:18
And, ‘Whoever swears by the altar, it is nothing; but whoever swears by the gift that is on it, he is obligated?’

Matthew 23:19
You blind fools! For which is greater, the gift, or the altar that sanctifies the gift?

Matthew 23:20
He therefore who swears by the altar, swears by it and by everything on it.

Matthew 23:21
He who swears by the temple, swears by it and by him who has been living in it.

Matthew 23:22
He who swears by heaven, swears by the throne of God and by him who sits on it.

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2 Corinthians 1:17
When I therefore planned this, did I show fickleness? Or the things that I plan, do I plan according to the flesh, that with me there should be the “Yes, yes” and the “No, no?”

2 Corinthians 1:18
But as God is faithful, our word toward you was not “Yes and no.”

2 Corinthians 1:23
But I call God for a witness to my soul, that I didn’t come to Corinth to spare you.

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Colossians 4:6
Let your speech always be with grace, seasoned with salt, that you may know how you ought to answer each one.

Proverbs 17:27
He who spares his words has knowledge. He who is even tempered is a man of understanding.

2 Timothy 1:13
Hold the pattern of sound words which you have heard from me, in faith and love which is in Christ Jesus.

Titus 2:8
and soundness of speech that can’t be condemned, that he who opposes you may be ashamed, having no evil thing to say about us.

James 3:2
For we all stumble in many things. Anyone who doesn’t stumble in word is a perfect person, able to bridle the whole body also.

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Genesis 9:11
I will establish my covenant with you: All flesh will not be cut off any more by the waters of the flood. There will never again be a flood to destroy the earth.”

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Matthew 13:19
When anyone hears the word of the Kingdom and doesn’t understand it, the evil one comes and snatches away that which has been sown in his heart. This is what was sown by the roadside.

Matthew 13:38
the field is the world, the good seeds are the children of the Kingdom, and the darnel weeds are the children of the evil one.

John 8:44
You are of your father the devil, and you want to do the desires of your father. He was a murderer from the beginning, and doesn’t stand in the truth, because there is no truth in him. When he speaks a lie, he speaks on his own; for he is a liar, and the father of lies.

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Ephesians 4:25
Therefore, putting away falsehood, speak truth each one with his neighbor, for we are members of one another.

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