Daily Reading for Personal Growth, 40 Days with God

The Sermon on the Mount: Taking Oaths

³³ “Again you have heard that it was said to the people of old,^[a] ‘Do not swear falsely,^[b] but fulfill your oaths to the Lord.’^{[c] 34} But I say to you, do not swear at all, either by heaven, because it is the throne of God, ³⁵ or by the earth, because it is the footstool of his feet, or by Jerusalem, because it is the city of the great king. ³⁶ And do not swear by your head, because you are not able to make one hair white or black. ³⁷ But let your statement be ‘Yes, yes; no, no,’ and anything beyond these is from the evil one.^[d]