A good name is rather to be chosen

In Matthew 5:33-36, Jesus is talking to his disciples, and He is telling them why it is never right to swear, or make an oath, by anything. "³³Again, ye have heard that it hath been said by them of old time, Thou shalt not forswear thyself, but shalt perform unto the Lord thine oaths: ³⁴But I say unto you, Swear not at all; neither by heaven; for it is God's throne: ³⁵Nor by the earth; for it is his footstool: neither 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." Basically, what He is saying is that we shouldn't swear by the Lord because if we do and we don't keep our promises then we are defiling the name of the Lord; neither should we swear by heaven because if we swear by it and don't do what we say, then we are telling people that heaven can't be trusted in; nor by the earth because if we can't keep our promises then we would be defiling something that God himself made; neither by Jerusalem because it is the city of the great King and we might be saying that God's children can not be trusted in; Neither should we swear by our heads because we are so fallible and weak that we can't make even one hair white or black that no one has any reason to believe that we would keep our promises anyways. So, in verse 37 Jesus says, "But let your communication be, Yea, yea; Nay, nay: for whatsoever is more than these cometh of evil." In other words, we Christians should build ourselves a reputation such as that no one will doubt us when we say something so that there is no reason for us to have to swear by something to be trusted. Do we have that great of a reputation?