Matthew 5:37
But let your speech be, Yea, yea; Nay, nay: and whatsoever is more than these is of the evil one.
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- James 5:12 But above all things, my brethren, swear not, neither by the heaven, nor by the earth, nor by any other oath: but let your yea be yea, and your nay, nay; that ye fall not under judgment.
- Colossians 4:6 Let your speech be always with grace, seasoned with salt, that ye may know how ye ought to answer each one.
- Colossians 3:9 lie not one to another; seeing that ye have put off the old man with his doings,