Daily Reading for Personal Growth, 40 Days with God

³³ Again, ye have heard that it was said to them of old time, ^[a]Thou shalt not forswear thyself, but shalt perform unto the Lord thine oaths: ³⁴ but I say unto you, Swear not at all; neither by the heaven, for it is the throne of God; ³⁵ nor by the earth, for it is the footstool of his feet; nor ^[b]by Jerusalem, for it is the city of the great King. ³⁶ Neither shalt thou swear by thy head, for thou canst not make one hair white or black. ^37 [c]But let your speech be, Yea, yea; Nay, nay: and whatsoever is more than these is of ^[d]the evil one.