Bible Verses About Oath

For Herod had laid hold of Yochanan, and bound him, and put him in prison for the sake of Herodias, his brother Philip’s wife.

For Yochanan said to him, “It is not lawful for you to have her.”

When he would have put him to death, he feared the multitude, because they counted him as a prophet.

But when Herod’s birthday came, the daughter of Herodias danced among them and pleased Herod.

Whereupon he promised with an oath to give her whatever she should ask.

She, being prompted by her mother, said, “Give me here on a platter the head of Yochanan the Immerser.”

The king was grieved, but for the sake of his oaths, and of those who sat at the table with him, he commanded it to be given,

and he sent and beheaded Yochanan in the prison.

His head was brought on a platter, and given to the young lady: and she brought it to her mother.

His disciples came, and took the body, and buried it; and they went and told Yeshua.

‘Whoever swears by the altar, it is nothing; but whoever swears by the gift that is on it, he is obligated?’

You blind fools! For which is greater, the gift, or the altar that sanctifies the gift?

He therefore who swears by the altar, swears by it, and by everything on it.

He who swears by the temple, swears by it, and by him who was living in it.

He who swears by heaven, swears by the throne of God, and by him who sits on it.

But Yeshua held his peace. The high priest answered him, “I adjure you by the living God, that you tell us whether you are the Messiah, the Son of God.”

The king was exceedingly sorry, but for the sake of his oaths, and of his dinner guests, he didn’t wish to refuse her.

the oath which he spoke to Abraham, our father,

When it was day, some of the Judeans banded together, and bound themselves under a curse, saying that they would neither eat nor drink until they had killed Paul.

There were more than forty people who had made this conspiracy.

They came to the chief priests and the elders, and said, “We have bound ourselves under a great curse, to taste nothing until we have killed Paul.

But I call God for a witness to my soul, that I didn’t come to Corinth to spare you.

Now about the things which I write to you, behold, before God, I’m not lying.

as I swore in my wrath, ‘They will not enter into my rest.’”

To whom did he swear that they wouldn’t enter into his rest, but to those who were disobedient?