 | Robert Barclay - Society of Friends - 1825 - 584 pages
...these, cometh of evil. As also the words of the apostle James, v. 12: But above all things, my brethren, swear not, neither by heaven, neither by the earth,...and your nay, nay, lest ye fall into condemnation. I say, considering these clear words, it is admirable how any one that professeth the name of Christ... | |
 | Joseph John Gurney - Society of Friends - 1825 - 362 pages
...also adverted to the subject in forcible and explicit terms : " But above all things, my brethren, swear not ; neither by heaven ; neither by the earth...and your nay, nay, lest ye fall into condemnation;" ch. v, 12. It might have been supposed that such plain injunctions would have convinced the generality... | |
 | Joseph John Gurney - Society of Friends - 1825 - 360 pages
...also adverted to tj>ei .subject in forcible and explicit terms : " But above QUfhings, my brethren, swear not ; neither by heaven ; neither by the earth...let your yea be yea, and your nay, nay; lest ye fall h}to condemnation;" ch. v, 12. It might have been supposed that such plain injunctions would have convinced... | |
 | William Carpenter - Bible - 1825 - 572 pages
...juij liç ùvôxftViv wiä-лт*. * But above all things, my brethren, swear not, neither by heavenï neither by the earth, neither by any other oath :...and your nay, nay ; lest ye fall into condemnation. •Again, ye have heard that it hath, been said by them of old time, Thou shall not forswear thyself,... | |
 | William Carpenter - Bible - 1825 - 630 pages
...Cod' l throne: » See parallels on clause 1. тег. 42. ь But above all things, my brethren, «wear not, neither by heaven, neither by the earth, neither...any other oath : but let your yea be yea, and your nav, nay ; lest ye fall into condemnation, James т. 18. T He that shall swear by heaven, sweareth... | |
 | Thomas Secker - Sermons, English - 1825 - 568 pages
...SERMON XXIX. JAMES V. 12. But above all things, my brethren, swear not ; neither by heaven, ncitlier by the earth, neither by any other oath : but let your yea, be yea, and your nay, nay ; lest yefall into condemnation. THIS precept of St. James is plainly taken frdm that part of our Saviour's... | |
 | David Harris Sacks - History - 2023 - 504 pages
...oath-taking? Had he not said, "Swear not at all"? 88 And in the Epistle of St. James were not Christians told, "above all things . .. swear not, neither by heaven,...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
...the 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,...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 - Religion - 1993 - 260 pages
...glossing it 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,...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,... | |
 | Lewis Sperry Chafer - Religion - 1993 - 868 pages
..."Thou shalt not take the name 3. "But above all things, my brethof the LORD thy God in vain." ren, swear not, neither by heaven, neither by the earth, neither by any other oath" (James 5:12). 4. "Remember the sabbath day, to 4. No such command is found in keep it holy." the teachings... | |
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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. 
