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Douay-Rheims
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But above all things, my brethren, swear not, neither by heaven, nor by the earth, nor by any other oath. But let your speech be: Yea, Yea: No, No: that you fall not under judgment.
King James
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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.
Louis Second
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Avant toutes choses, mes frères, ne jurez ni par le ciel, ni par la terre, ni par aucun autre serment. Mais que votre oui soit oui, et que votre non soit non, afin que vous ne tombiez pas sous le jugement
Martin Luther
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Vor allen Dingen aber, meine Brüder, schwöret nicht, weder bei dem Himmel noch bei der Erde noch mit keinem andern Eide. Es sei aber euer Wort: Ja, das ja ist; und: Nein, das nein ist, auf daß ihr nicht in Heuchelei fallet.
Vulgate
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ante omnia autem fratres mei nolite iurare neque per caelum neque per terram neque aliud quodcumque iuramentum sit autem vestrum est est non non uti non sub iudicio decidatis

Matthew Henry's Concise Commentary


ante : (prep. + acc.) before/ in front of/ (adv.) before, previously.
autem : but, on the other hand, however, moreover, also.
mei : my, mine /MY heart belongs to daddy. that old gang of MINE.
per : (prefix to an adjective) very, excessively, quite.
per : (+ acc.) (of time) throughout, during, in the course of.
per : (+ acc.) (of space) through, along, over / in the presence of.
per : (+ acc.) (cause) because of, on account of.
per : (+ acc.) (means/instrument) through, with, by, by means of.
caelum : sky, heaven.
non : not.
sub : (+ acc. or dat.) under, up under, close to, beneath, below.