Keeping your Word
10 passages
- Matthew 5:37
Simply let your ‘Yes’ be ‘Yes,’ and your ‘No,’ ‘No.’ Anything more comes from the evil one.
Read it in context - Numbers 30:1–2
1Then Moses said to the heads of the tribes of Israel, “This is what the LORD has commanded: 2If a man makes a vow to the LORD or swears an oath to obligate himself by a pledge, he must not break his word; he must do everything he has promised.
Read it in context - 1 John 2:5
But if anyone keeps His word, the love of God has been truly perfected in him. By this we know that we are in Him:
Read it in context - Matthew 5:33
Again, you have heard that it was said to the ancients, ‘Do not break your oath, but fulfill your vows to the Lord.’
Read it in context - John 1:1
In the beginning was the Word, and the Word was with God, and the Word was God.
Read it in context - Psalm 119:9
How can a young man keep his way pure? By guarding it according to Your word.
Read it in context - Psalm 119:11
I have hidden Your word in my heart that I might not sin against You.
Read it in context - James 5:12
Above all, my brothers, do not swear, not by heaven or earth or by any other oath. Simply let your “Yes” be yes, and your “No,” no, so that you will not fall under judgment.
Read it in context - Proverbs 20:25
It is a trap for a man to dedicate something rashly, only later to reconsider his vows.
Read it in context - Deuteronomy 23:23
Be careful to follow through on what comes from your lips, because you have freely vowed to the LORD your God with your own mouth.
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