 | Isaac Barrow, Thomas Smart Hughes - Sermons, English - 1830 - 540 pages
...the sting in the close of our text, wherewith I conclude ; ' 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 yoar nay nay, lest ye fall into condemnation,' or, ' lest ye fall under damnation.' From the which... | |
 | Isaac Barrow - Theology - 1830 - 712 pages
...the sting in the close of our text, wherewith I conclude ; 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 v» »«'«{'- your nay nay, lest ye fall into condemnation, or, "lext ye fall under damnation. From... | |
 | Isaac Barrow - Theology - 1830 - 668 pages
...the sting in the close of our text, wherewith I conclude ; ' But above all thines, 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,' or, ' lest ye fall under damnation.' From the which... | |
 | George Whitehead - Quakers - 1830 - 324 pages
...came to visit me were ready to take their of Christ, exhorted : '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.' James v. 12. From whence I inferred, if we may not... | |
 | George Whitehead - Quakers - 1830 - 326 pages
...against hypocrisy, sin, and wickedness. of Christ, exhorted : ' 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.' James v. 12. From whence I inferred, if we may not... | |
 | Witness Lee - Bible - 1980 - 524 pages
...not swear at all." This seed is developed in James 5:12: "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." The word of the apostle James is nearly the same as... | |
 | John R. Rice - Religion - 2000 - 568 pages
...heaven; for it is God's throne," and James 5:12 also commands, "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." In government, one is required to swear, or to solemnly... | |
 | David Harris Sacks - History - 2023 - 504 pages
...at all"? 88 And in the Epistle of St. James were not Christians told, "above all things . .. swear not, neither by heaven, neither by the earth, neither by any other oath: but let your yea be your yea; and your nay, nay; lest ye fall into a condemnation." 89 In conventional Protestant commentaries,... | |
 | Paul V. Harrison, Robert E. Picirilli - Religion - 1992 - 384 pages
...prophets, vv. 10,11. XVI. PROHIBITION AGAINST OATHS (5:12) 12 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. Verse 12 appears to exist as a separate unit of thought.... | |
 | David Lawton - Religion - 1993 - 260 pages
...out of existence, the apparent prohibition of James 5: 12: '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.' As John Downame hastens to explain in 'A Treatise on... | |
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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. 
