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Matthew 5:36
Nor should you swear by your head, for you cannot make a single hair white or black.
King James Version
Neither shalt thou swear by thy head, because thou canst not make one hair white or black.
World English Bible
Neither shall you swear by your head, for you can’t make one hair white or black.
American Standard Version
Neither shalt thou swear by thy head, for thou canst not make one hair white or black.
Geneva Bible 1599
Neither shalt thou sweare by thine head, because thou canst not make one heare white or blacke.
Darby Translation
Neither shalt thou swear by thy head, because thou canst not make one hair white or black.
Young's Literal Translation
nor by thy head mayest thou swear, because thou art not able one hair to make white or black;
Bible in Basic English
You may not take an oath by your head, because you are not able to make one hair white or black.
35or by the earth, for it is His footstool; or by Jerusalem, for it is the city of the great King.
37Simply let your ‘Yes’ be ‘Yes,’ and your ‘No,’ ‘No.’ Anything more comes from the evil one.
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