Bible Verses About Oaths

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

`Woe to you, blind guides, who are saying, Whoever may swear by the sanctuary, it is nothing, but whoever may swear by the gold of the sanctuary--is debtor!

Fools and blind! for which is greater, the gold, or the sanctuary that is sanctifying the gold?

`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 again did he deny with an oath--`I have not known the man.'

thou, therefore, mayest thou not yield to them, for there lie in wait for him of them more than forty men, who did anathematize themselves--not to eat nor to drink till they kill him, and now they are ready, waiting for the promise from thee.'

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;

for at no time did we come with speech of flattery, (as ye have known,) nor in a pretext for covetousness, (God is witness!)

I charge you by the Lord, that the letter be read to all the holy brethren;

for men indeed do swear by the greater, and an end of all controversy to them for confirmation is the oath,

And before all things, my brethren, do not swear, neither by the heaven, neither by the earth, neither by any other oath, and let your Yes be Yes, and the No, No; that under judgment ye may not fall.

And the messenger whom I saw standing upon the sea, and upon the land, did lift up his hand to the heaven,

and did swear in Him who doth live to the ages of the ages, who did create the heaven and the things in it, and the land and the things in it, and the sea and the things in it--that time shall not be yet,