Daily Reading for Personal Growth, 40 Days with God

Some Say Do Not Break Your Oath. I Say Do Not Swear an Oath At All

³³ “Again, you heard that it was said to the ancient ones, ‘You shall not break-your-oath^[a], but you shall pay your oaths to the Lord’. ³⁴ But I say to you not to swear-with-an-oath^[b] at all— ³⁵ neither by heaven, because it is the throne of God; nor by earth, because it is a footstool of His feet; nor with reference to Jerusalem, because it is the city of the great King; ³⁶ nor may you swear-with-an-oath by your head, because you are not able to make one hair white or black. ³⁷ But let your statement be, ‘Yes, yes’, [or] ‘No, no’. And the thing beyond these is from^[c] the evil one.