Matthew 5:37

Simply let your ‘Yes’ be ‘Yes,’ and your ‘No,’ ‘No.’ Anything more comes from the evil one.

Note Or from evil

BSB · Berean Standard Bible
But let your communication be, Yea, yea; Nay, nay: for whatsoever is more than these cometh of evil.
KJV · King James Version
But let your ‘Yes’ be ‘Yes’ and your ‘No’ be ‘No.’ Whatever is more than these is of the evil one.
WEB · World English Bible
But let your speech be, Yea, yea; Nay, nay: and whatsoever is more than these is of the evil one.
ASV · American Standard Version

Related passages

From the Treasury of Scripture Knowledge, grouped by the word they explain.

let
2 Corinthians 1:17–20; Colossians 4:6; James 5:12
cometh
Matthew 13:19; Matthew 15:19; John 8:44; Ephesians 4:25; Colossians 3:9; James 5:12