Bible Verses About Oaths

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,

“Woe to you, you blind guides, who say, ‘Whoever swears by the temple, it is nothing; but whoever swears by the gold of the temple, he is obligated.’

You blind fools! For which is greater, the gold, or the temple that sanctifies the gold?

‘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.”

Again he denied it with an oath, “I don’t know the man.”

Therefore don’t yield to them, for more than forty men lie in wait for him, who have bound themselves under a curse neither to eat nor to drink until they have killed him. Now they are ready, looking for the promise from you.”

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.

For neither were we at any time found using words of flattery, as you know, nor a cloak of covetousness (God is witness),

I solemnly command you by the Lord that this letter be read to all the holy brothers.

For men indeed swear by a greater one, and in every dispute of theirs the oath is final for confirmation.

But above all things, my brothers, don’t swear, neither by heaven, nor by the earth, nor by any other oath; but let your “yes” be “yes”, and your “no”, “no”; so that you don’t fall into hypocrisy.

The angel whom I saw standing on the sea and on the land lifted up his right hand to the sky,

and swore by him who lives forever and ever, who created heaven and the things that are in it, the earth and the things that are in it, and the sea and the things that are in it, that there will no longer be delay,