James 5:12 Cross References - Coverdale

¹² But aboue all thinges my brethre, sweare not, nether by heaue, nether by earth, nether by eny other othe. Let youre ye be ye, and yor naye naye: lest ye faule in to ypocricy.

³³ Agayne, ye haue herde, how it was sayde to the of olde tyme: Thou shalt not forsweare thy selfe, but shalt performe thyne ooth to God. ³⁴ But I saye vnto you: sweare not at all, nether by heaue, for it is Godis seate: ³⁵ nor yet by the earth, for it is his fote stole: nether by Ierusalem, for it is the cyte of ye greate kinge: ³⁶ nether shalt thou sweare by thy heed, because thou canst not make one heer whyte or blacke: ³⁷ But your communicacion shalbe, yee, yee: nay, nay. For what soeuer is more then that, commeth of euel.

¹⁶ Wo vnto you blyndegydes, which saye: Who so euer sweareth by the temple, that is nothinge: but who so euer sweareth by the golde of the temple, he is giltie. ¹⁷ Ye fooles and blynde, whether is greater? the golde, or the teple that sanctifieth the golde? ¹⁸ And who so euer sweareth by the altare, that is nothinge: but who so euer sweareth by the offeringe that is vpo it, he is giltye. ¹⁹ Ye fooles and blynde, whether is greater? the offeringe, or the altare that sanctifieth the offerynge? ²⁰ Therfore who so sweareth by the altare, sweareth by the same, and by all that is theron: ²¹ and who so sweareth by the temple, sweareth by the same, and by him that dwelleth therin. ²² And who so sweareth by heauen, sweareth by the seate of God, and by him that sytteth theron.

³⁴ But yf eny man honger, let him eate at home, that ye come not together vnto codempnacion. As for other thinges, I wil set them in order whan I come.

¹⁷ Whan I thus wyse was mynded, dyd I vse ligthnesse? Or are my thoughtes fleshly.? Not so but with me yee is yee, and nay is naye. ¹⁸ O faithfull God, that oure worde vnto you hath not bene yee and naye. ¹⁹ For Gods sonne Iesus Christ, which was preached amonge you by vs (namely, by me and Siluanus and Timotheus) was not yee and naye, but in him it was yee. ²⁰ For all the promyses of God are yee in him, & are Ame in him, to the prayse of God by vs.

¹ My brethre, be not euery man a master, remebrynge how that we shall receaue the more damnacion: ² for in many thinges we synne all. Yf a man synne not in worde, the same is a parfecte man, & able to tame all the body.

⁸ but aboue all thinges haue feruent loue amonge you one to another. For loue couereth the multitude of synnes.

² My beloued, I wysshe in all thinges, that thou prospere and fare well euen as thy soule prospereth.