Matthew 5:33-37

Holman Christian Standard Bible

Tell the Truth

³³ “Again, you have heard that it was said to our ancestors,^[a] You must not break your oath, but you must keep your oaths to the Lord.^{(A)[b] 34} But I tell you, don’t take an oath at all: either by heaven, because it is God’s throne; ³⁵ or by the earth, because it is His footstool; or by Jerusalem, because it is the city of the great King.^{(B) 36} Neither should you swear by your head, because you cannot make a single hair white or black. ³⁷ But let your word ‘yes’ be ‘yes,’ and your ‘no’ be ‘no.’^[c] Anything more than this is from the evil one.^(C)