Bible Verses About Profane Swearing

"You are not to use lightly the name of ADONAI your God, because ADONAI will not leave unpunished someone who uses his name lightly. s

in the course of which the son of the woman of Isra'el uttered the Name [Yud-Heh-Vav-Heh] in a curse. So they brought him to Moshe. (His mother's name was Shlomit the daughter of Dibri, of the tribe of Dan.)

and whoever blasphemes the name of ADONAI must be put to death; the entire community must stone him. The foreigner as well as the citizen is to be put to death if he blasphemes the Name.

So Moshe spoke to the people of Isra'el, and they took the man who had cursed outside the camp and stoned him to death. Thus the people of Isra'el did as ADONAI had ordered Moshe. see readings for Parashah 41]

"'You are not to misuse the name of ADONAI your God, because ADONAI will not leave unpunished someone who misuses his name.

when Geichazi, the servant of Elisha the man of God, said to himself, "Here, my master has made it easy on this Arami Na'aman by not accepting from him what he brought. As ADONAI lives, I'll run after him and get at least something from him."

His mouth is full of curses, deceit, oppression; under his tongue, mischief and injustice.

for the sins their mouths make with each word from their lips. Let them be trapped by their pride for the curses and falsehoods they utter.

He loved cursing; may it recoil on him! He didn't like blessing; may it stay far from him!

He clothed himself with cursing as routinely as with his coat; May it enter inside him as easily as water, as easily as oil into his bones.

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.

Hear the word of ADONAI, people of Isra'el! For ADONAI has a grievance against the inhabitants of the land: there is no truth, no faithful love or knowledge of God in the land;

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

Therefore the land mourns, and everyone living there languishes, wild animals too, and the birds in the air; even the fish in the sea are removed.

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.

"Woe to you, you blind guides! You say, `If someone swears by the Temple, he is not bound by his oath; but if he swears by the gold in the Temple, he is bound.'

And someone who swears by the Temple swears by it and the One who lives in it

And someone who swears by heaven swears by God's throne and the One who sits on it.

This time he began to invoke a curse on himself as he swore, "I do not know the man!" -- and immediately a rooster crowed.

Their mouths are full of curses and bitterness.

Above all, brothers, stop swearing oaths — not “By heaven,” not “By the earth,” and not by any other formula; rather, let your “Yes” be simply “Yes” and your “No” simply “No,” so that you won’t fall under condemnation.