 | John Everitt Good - 1829 - 692 páginas
...these cometh of evil." The apostle James gives us a similar caution, and urges a similar motive : " But above all things, my brethren, swear not; neither...your yea be yea, and your nay, nay, lest ye fall into temptation." * It seems wholly unnecessary to offer any explanatory remarks on these injunctions. The... | |
 | 1829 - 448 páginas
...patience of Job, and have seen the end of the Lord; that the Lord is very pitiful, and of tender mercy. brethren, swear not, neither by heaven, neither by...and your nay, nay ; lest ye fall into condemnation. 13 Is any among you afflicted? let him pray. Is any merry ? let him sing psalms. 14 Is any sick among... | |
 | Elisha Bates - 1829 - 360 páginas
...evil." Matt. v. 33 — 37. The apostle James adverts to the same thing, in the impressive language : " But above all things, my brethren, swear not, neither...any other oath : but let your yea be yea, and your nay, hay : lest ye fall into condemnation." James v. 12. It is strange indeed that precepts so positive... | |
 | James Nourse - 1829 - 292 páginas
...pitiful, and of tender mercy. BCT above all things, my brethren, swear not, neither by heaven, 1£ neither by the earth, neither by any other oath :...and your nay, nay ; lest ye fall into condemnation. Is any among you afflicted? let him pray. Is any merry? let him 13sing psalms. Is any sick among you... | |
 | Elisha Bates - 1829 - 358 páginas
...things, my brethren, swear not, neither by heaven, neither by the earth, neither by any other path : but let your yea be yea, and your nay, nay; lest ye fall into condemnation." James v. 12. It is strange indeed that precepts so positive and clear, should be construed away to... | |
 | Witness Lee - 1980 - 524 páginas
...Matthew 5:34-37, the Lord Jesus said, "Do not swear at all." This seed is developed in James 5:12: "But above all things, my brethren, swear not, neither...your nay, nay; lest ye fall into condemnation." The word of the apostle James is nearly the same as that of the Lord Jesus. It may be that James still... | |
 | John R. Rice - 2000 - 568 páginas
...unto you, Swear not at all; neither by heaven; for it is God's throne," and James 5:12 also commands, "Above all things, my brethren, swear not, neither...and your nay, nay; lest ye fall into condemnation." In government, one is required to swear, or to solemnly promise, but he may use "I solemnly affirm"... | |
 | Paul V. Harrison, Robert E. Picirilli - 1992 - 384 páginas
...return, vv. 7-9, and (b) exemplified in the prophets, vv. 10,11. XVI. PROHIBITION AGAINST OATHS (5:12) 12 But above all things, my brethren, swear not, neither...and your nay, nay; lest ye fall into condemnation. Verse 12 appears to exist as a separate unit of thought. As Robertson (Word Pictures VI:63) comments,... | |
 | David Lawton - 1993 - 260 páginas
...and thus evades, sometimes by glossing it out of existence, the apparent prohibition of James 5: 12: 'But above all things, my brethren, swear not, neither...and your nay, nay; lest ye fall into condemnation.' As John Downame hastens to explain in 'A Treatise on Swearing' (1609) Christ 'onely forbiddeth rash,... | |
 | graf Leo Tolstoy - 1994 - 292 páginas
...communication be, Yea, yea; Nay, nay: for whatsoever is more than these cometh of evil.' The Epistle of James says: 'But above all things, my brethren, swear...and your nay, nay; lest ye fall into condemnation.' But it is not only the Gospel's explicit admonition against taking an oath. Even if there were no such... | |
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But above all things, my brethren, swear not, neither by heaven, neither by the earth, neither by any other oath: but let your yea be yea; and your nay, nay; lest ye fall into condemnation. 
