Bible Verses About Swearing Falsely

Therefore Adonai ELOHIM says: 'As I live, I swear that it is my oath he has despised and my covenant he has broken, and I will bring this on his own head.

They mouth words, swearing falsely, making treaties. Thus judgment spreads like poisonous weeds in the furrows of a field.

Then he said to me, "This is the curse that goes out over the face of all the land; for [according to what is written] on one side, everyone who steals will be swept away; and [according to what is written] on the other side, everyone who swears will be swept away.

'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.

"Again, you have heard that our fathers were told, `Do not break your oath,' and `Keep your vows to ADONAI.'

Again he denied it, swearing, "I don't know the man!"

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