^37 (A)But let ^[a]your ‘Yes’ be ‘Yes,’ and your ‘No,’ ‘No.’ For whatever is more than these is from the evil one.

¹² But above all, my brethren, ^(A)do not swear, either by heaven or by earth or with any other oath. But let your “Yes” be “Yes,” and your “No,” “No,” lest you fall into ^[a]judgment.

⁶ Let your speech always be ^(A)with grace, ^(B)seasoned with salt, ^(C)that you may know how you ought to answer each one.

⁹ Do not lie to one another, since you have put off the old man with his deeds,

¹⁷ Therefore, when I was planning this, did I do it lightly? Or the things I plan, do I plan ^(A)according to the flesh, that with me there should be Yes, Yes, and No, No? ¹⁸ But as God is ^(B)faithful, our ^[a]word to you was not Yes and No. ¹⁹ For ^(C)the Son of God, Jesus Christ, who was preached among you by us—by me, ^(D)Silvanus, and ^(E)Timothy—was not Yes and No, ^(F)but in Him was Yes. ^20 (G)For all the promises of God in Him are Yes, and in Him Amen, to the glory of God through us.

^44 (A)You are of your father the devil, and the ^(B)desires of your father you want to ^(C)do. He was a murderer from the beginning, and ^(D)does not stand in the truth, because there is no truth in him. When he speaks a lie, he speaks from his own resources, for he is a liar and the father of it.

Do Not Grieve the Spirit

²⁵ Therefore, putting away lying, ^(A)“Let each one of you speak truth with his neighbor,” for ^(B)we are members of one another.

³ But ^(A)the Lord is faithful, who will establish you and ^(B)guard you from the evil one.

¹⁹ When anyone hears the word ^(A)of the kingdom, and does not understand it, then the wicked one comes and snatches away what was sown in his heart. This is he who received seed by the wayside.