Bible Verses About Swearing Falsely

"If someone sins and acts perversely against ADONAI by dealing falsely with his neighbor in regard to a deposit or security entrusted to him, by stealing from him, by extorting him,

or by dealing falsely in regard to a lost object he has found, or by swearing to a lie -if a person commits any of these sins,

Do not swear by my name falsely, which would be profaning the name of your God; I am ADONAI.

when a man makes a vow to ADONAI or formally obligates himself by swearing an oath, he is not to break his word but is to do everything he said he would do.

"If a malicious witness comes forward and gives false testimony against someone,

The judges are to investigate carefully. If they find that the witness is lying and has given false testimony against his brother,

Here is what we will do to them: we will let them live, so that God's anger will not be on us because of the oath we swore to them.

Sha'ul heeded Y'honatan's advice and swore, "As ADONAI lives, he will not be put to death."

when Sha'ul tried to pin David to the wall with the spear. But he dodged it and moved out of Sha'ul's way, so that the spear stuck in the wall. David fled, so that night he escaped.

Shlomo was told that Shim'i had gone from Yerushalayim to Gat and back.

The king summoned Shim'i and said to him, "Didn't I have you swear by ADONAI and forewarn you by telling you, 'Know for a fact that on the day you leave and go anywhere outside the city, you will certainly die'? and you answered me, 'What you're saying is good; I hear it.'

Why, then, haven't you kept the oath of ADONAI and the mitzvah I charged you with?"

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

Those with clean hands and pure hearts, who don't make vanities the purpose of their lives or swear oaths just to deceive.

They will receive a blessing from ADONAI and justice from God, who saves them.

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.

Then you come and stand before me in this house that bears my name and say, 'We are saved' - so that you can go on doing these abominations!

"For here is what Adonai ELOHIM says: 'I will do to you as you have done - you treated the oath with contempt by breaking the covenant.

Then he took a member of the royal family and made a covenant with him, putting him under oath. He removed the powerful leaders of the land,

so that this kingdom of his would stay humble and not develop aspirations of its own; rather, it would keep his covenant and live accordingly.

But this man rebelled and sent representatives to Egypt, in order to obtain horses and a sizeable army. Can he succeed? Can someone who does such things escape punishment? Can he break the covenant and still escape punishment?

"'As I live,' says Adonai ELOHIM, 'in the place where the king who gave him his throne lives, whose oath he despised and whose covenant he broke, there with him in Bavel I swear that he will die.

Pharaoh with his mighty army and numerous troops will give him no help in the war, when they raise siege-works and build fortified towers to destroy many people;

because he despised the oath by breaking the covenant to which he had sworn allegiance; having done all these things, he will not escape unpunished.'