Trust.
Do we say what we mean and mean what we say?
When we say we’ll do something, can people depend on us to do it?
Do we have the courage to say no when we should?
James gives us this advice on your word. By the way, when he says “swear,” he does not mean what common American language means. It means invoking someone or something to back up our “yes.” As in, “I swear on my mother’s grave that I’ll do that.” In past cultures, we may have said, “I swear as God is my witness that I’ll don that.”
Above all, my brothers and sisters, do not swear—not by heaven or by earth or by anything else. All you need to say is a simple “Yes” or “No.” Otherwise you will be condemned.
What are we if our word cannot be trusted?
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