Bible Verses About Oath

For Herod having laid hold on John, did bind him, and did put him in prison, because of Herodias his brother Philip's wife,

for John was saying to him, `It is not lawful to thee to have her,'

and, willing to kill him, he feared the multitude, because as a prophet they were holding him.

But the birthday of Herod being kept, the daughter of Herodias danced in the midst, and did please Herod,

whereupon with an oath he professed to give her whatever she might ask.

And she having been instigated by her mother--`Give me (says she) here upon a plate the head of John the Baptist;

and the king was grieved, but because of the oaths and of those reclining with him, he commanded it to be given;

and having sent, he beheaded John in the prison,

and his head was brought upon a plate, and was given to the damsel, and she brought it nigh to her mother.

And his disciples having come, took up the body, and buried it, and having come, they told Jesus,

`And, whoever may swear by the altar, it is nothing; but whoever may swear by the gift that is upon it--is debtor!

Fools and blind! for which is greater, the gift, or the altar that is sanctifying the gift?

`He therefore who did swear by the altar, doth swear by it, and by all things on it;

and he who did swear by the sanctuary, doth swear by it, and by Him who is dwelling in it;

and he who did swear by the heaven, doth swear by the throne of God, and by Him who is sitting upon it.

and Jesus was silent. And the chief priest answering said to him, `I adjure thee, by the living God, that thou mayest say to us, if thou art the Christ--the Son of God.'

And the king--made very sorrowful--because of the oaths and of those reclining (at meat) with him, would not put her away,

An oath that He sware to Abraham our father,

And day having come, certain of the Jews having made a concourse, did anathematize themselves, saying neither to eat nor to drink till they may kill Paul;

and they were more than forty who made this conspiracy by oath,

who having come near to the chief priests and to the elders said, `With an anathema we did anathematize ourselves--to taste nothing till we have killed Paul;

And I for a witness on God do call upon my soul, that sparing you, I came not yet to Corinth;

And the things that I write to you, lo, before God--I lie not;

so I sware in My anger, If they shall enter into My rest--!')

and to whom did He swear that they shall not enter into His rest, except to those who did not believe? --