Bible Verses About Oath: Attributed to God

By my own self have I sworn, saith the Lord: because thou hast done this thing, and hast not spared thy only begotten son for my sake:

Once have I sworn by my holiness that I will not lie unto David.

Let the heavens rejoice, and let the earth be glad, let the sea be moved, and the fulness thereof:

And he rebuked the Red Sea and it was dried up: and he led them through the depths, as in a wilderness.

¶ The LORD hath sworn in truth unto David; he will not turn from it; Of the fruit of thy body will I set upon thy throne.

The Lord of hosts hath sworn, saying: Surely as I have thought, so shall it be: and as I have purposed,

I have sworn by myself, the word of justice shall go out of my mouth, and shall not return:

That I may accomplish the oath which I swore to your fathers, to give them a land flowing with milk and honey, as it is this day. And I answered and said: Amen, O Lord.

But if you will not hearken to these words: I swear by myself, saith the Lord, that this house shall become a desolation.

For I have sworn by myself, saith the Lord, that Bosra shall become a desolation, and a reproach, and a desert, and a curse: and all her cities shall be everlasting wastes.

The Lord of hosts hath sworn by himself, saying: I will fill thee with men as with locusts, and they shall lift up a joyful shout against thee.

The oath, which he swore to Abraham our father, that he would grant to us.

As I have sworn in my wrath: If they shall enter into my rest.

And to whom did he swear, that they should not enter into his rest: but to them that were incredulous?

For we, who have believed, shall enter into rest; as he said: As I have sworn in my wrath: If they shall enter into my rest; and this indeed when the works from the foundation of the world were finished.

For God making promises to Abraham, because he had no one greater by whom he might swear, swore by himself,

Saying: Unless blessing I shall bless thee and multiplying I shall multiply thee.

Wherein God, meaning more abundantly to shew to the heirs of the promise the immutability of his counsel, interposed an oath:

But this with an oath, by him that said unto him: The Lord hath sworn and he will not repent: Thou art a priest for ever).

For the law maketh men priests, who have infirmity: but the word of the oath (which was since the law) the Son who is perfected for evermore.

And he swore by him that liveth for ever and ever, who created heaven and the things which are therein, and the earth and the things which are in it, and the sea and the things which are therein: That time shall be no longer.