Matthew 5:37 Cross References - Goodspeed

³⁷ But your way of speaking must be 'Yes' or 'No.' Anything that goes beyond that comes from the evil one.

¹³ And do not subject us to temptation, But save us from the evil one.'

¹⁹ When anyone hears the teaching of the kingdom and does not understand it, the evil one comes and robs him of the seed that has been sown in his mind. That is what was sown along the path.

³⁸ The field is the world. The good seed is the people of the kingdom. The weeds are the wicked.

¹⁹ For out of the heart come wicked designs, murder, adultery, immorality, stealing, false witness, impious speech.

⁴⁴ The devil is the father you are sprung from, and you want to carry out your father's wishes. He was a murderer from the first, and he has nothing to do with the truth, for there is no truth in him. When he tells a lie, he speaks in his true character, for he is a liar and the father of them.

¹⁵ I do not ask you to take them away from the world, but to keep them from evil.

¹⁷ Was it vacillating of me to want to do that? Do I make my plans like a worldly man, ready to say "Yes" and "No" in the same breath? ¹⁸ As surely as God can be relied on, there has been no equivocation about our message to you. ¹⁹ The Son of God, Christ Jesus, whom we proclaimed among you, Silvanus, Timothy, and I, you have not found wavering between "Yes" and "No." With him it has always been "Yes," ²⁰ for to all the promises of God he supplies the "Yes" that confirms them. That is why we utter the "Amen" through him, when we give glory to God.

²⁵ So you must lay aside falsehood and each tell his neighbor the truth, for we are parts of one another.

⁹ You must not lie to one another. For you have stripped off your old self with its ways

⁶ Always put your message attractively, and yet pointedly, and be prepared to give every inquirer a fitting answer.

³ But the Lord is to be relied on, and he will give you strength and protect you from the evil one.

¹² Above all, my brothers, do not swear an oath, either by heaven or by the earth, or by anything else; let your "Yes" be a plain Yes, and your "No" a plain No, or you will fall under condemnation.

¹³ I am writing to you, fathers, because you know him who has existed from the beginning. I am writing to you, young men, because you have been victorious over the evil one. I write to you, children, because you know the Father.

¹² We must not be like Cain who was a child of the evil one, and butchered his brother. And why did he butcher him? Because his own actions were wicked and his brother's upright.

¹⁸ We know that no child of God commits sin, but the fact that he is God's child protects him, and the evil one cannot touch him.