Matthew 5:36
Good News Translation
Do not even swear by your head, because you cannot make a single hair white or black.

New Revised Standard Version
And do not swear by your head, for you cannot make one hair white or black.

Contemporary English Version
Don't swear by your own head. You cannot make one hair white or black.

New American Bible
Do not swear by your head, for you cannot make a single hair white or black.

Douay-Rheims Bible
Neither shalt thou swear by thy head, because thou canst not make one hair white or black.

Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

Neither shalt thou swear by thy head, because thou canst not make one hair white or black.

shalt.

Matthew 23:16-21 Woe to you, blind guides, that say, Whosoever shall swear by the temple, it is nothing; but he that shall swear by the gold of the temple is a debtor. . . .

because.

Matthew 6:27 And which of you by taking thought, can add to his stature one cubit?

Luke 12:25 And which of you by taking thought can add to his stature one cubit?

Context
Oaths and Vows
35Nor by the earth, for it is his footstool: nor by Jerusalem, for it is the city of the great king: 36Neither shalt thou swear by thy head, because thou canst not make one hair white or black. 37But let your speech be yea, yea: no, no: and that which is over and above these, is of evil.…
Cross References
Matthew 5:35
Nor by the earth, for it is his footstool: nor by Jerusalem, for it is the city of the great king:

Matthew 5:37
But let your speech be yea, yea: no, no: and that which is over and above these, is of evil.

Matthew 5:35
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