Bible Verses About Oaths

"If a person sins against a fellow member of the community, and he is made to swear under oath, and he comes and swears before your altar in this house;

The king said to him, "How many times do I have to warn you to tell me nothing but the truth in the name of ADONAI?"

In the seventh year Y'hoyada summoned the captains of hundred-man platoons, of both the Kari and the guard. He brought them into the house of ADONAI, made an agreement with them and had them swear to it in the house of ADONAI. Then he showed them the king's son

They swore this to ADONAI in a loud voice, with shouting and blowing of trumpets and shofars.

All Y'hudah was full of joy at this oath; for they had sworn with all their heart and had sought him with all their will; and they found him, and ADONAI gave them rest all around.

joined their kinsmen and their leaders in swearing an oath, accompanied by a curse [in case of noncompliance], as follows: "We will live by God's Torah, given by Moshe the servant of God, and will perform and obey all the mitzvot, rulings and laws of ADONAI our Lord.

who look with scorn on the vile, but honor those who fear ADONAI; who hold to an oath, no matter the cost;

how he swore to ADONAI, vowed to the Mighty One of Ya'akov,

Keep the king's command because of the oath before God.

Anything can happen to anyone; the same thing can happen to the righteous as to the wicked, to the good and clean and to the unclean, to someone who offers a sacrifice and to someone who doesn't offer a sacrifice; it is the same for a good person as for a sinner, for someone who takes an oath rashly as for someone who fears to take an oath.

Thus someone on earth who blesses himself will bless himself by the God of truth, and someone on earth who swears an oath will swear by the God of truth; for past troubles will be forgotten, hidden from my eyes.

and if you will swear, 'As ADONAI lives,' in truth, justice and righteousness; then the nations will bless themselves by him, and in him will they glory."

And though they say, 'As ADONAI lives,' the fact is that they are swearing falsely."

First you steal, murder, commit adultery, swear falsely, offer to Ba'al and go after other gods that you haven't known.

For the land is full of adulterers; because of a curse the land is in mourning - the desert pastures have dried up. Their course is evil, their power misused.

The man dressed in linen who was above the water of the river raised his right and left hands toward heaven and swore by him who lives forever that it would be for a time, times and a half, and that it will be when the the power of the holy people is no longer being shattered that all these things will end.

only swearing and lying, killing and stealing and committing adultery! They break all bounds, with one blood crime following another.

'I will release it,' says ADONAI-Tzva'ot, 'and it will enter the house of the thief and the house of anyone who swears falsely by my name; it will stay there inside the house and consume it completely, even its timbers and stones.'"

don't plot harm against each other; and don't love perjury; for all these are things I hate,' says ADONAI."

"Then I will approach you for judgment; and I will be quick to witness against sorcerers, adulterers and perjurers; against those who take advantage of wage-earners, widows and orphans; against those who rob the foreigner of his rights and don't fear me," says ADONAI-Tzva'ot.

But I tell you not to swear at all -- not `by heaven,' because it is God's throne;

not `by the earth,' because it is his footstool;p and not `by Yerushalayim,' because it is the city of the Great King.

And don't swear by your head, because you can't make a single hair white or black.

so much that he promised with an oath to give her whatever she asked.

Prompted by her mother, she said, "Give me here on a platter the head of Yochanan the Immerser."