26 Bible Verses about Oaths, Divine

For God promising to Abraham, since he had none greater to swear by, sware by himself, Saying, Truly will I praise thee, and multiplying will I multiply thee.

And he will say, By myself did I swear, says Jehovah, for because that thou didst this word, and didst not spare thy son, thine only.

Once did I swear in my holy place if I shall lie to David.

By myself I sware the word, justice went forth out of my mouth, and shall not turn back, That to me every knee shall bend, every tongue shall swear.

Jehovah sware by his right hand, and by the arm of his strength, If I shall give more thy grain for food to thine enemies, and if the sons of the stranger shall drink thy new wine which thou didst labor for it:

For truly men swear by the greater: and the oath for confirmation to them the end of all controversy. In which God, willing more abundantly to show to the heirs of the promise the firmness of his counsel, he intervened by an oath: That by two unalterable deeds, in which it is impossible for God to deceive we might have a strong consolation, taking refuge in holding firmly the hope set before:

And the messenger of Jehovah will call to Abraham the second time out of the heavens. And he will say, By myself did I swear, says Jehovah, for because that thou didst this word, and didst not spare thy son, thine only. That praising, I will praise thee, and multiplying I will multiply thy seed as the stars of the heavens, and as the sand upon the lip of the sea; and thy seed shall inherit the gate of his enemies.read more.
And in thy seed all the nations of the earth shall be praised; because that thou didst listen to my voice.

Jehovah, God of the heavens, who took me from my father's house, and from the land of my birth, and who spake to me, and who sware to me, saying, To thy seed will I give this land: he will send his messenger before thy face, and thou shalt take a wife to my son from thence.

Sojourn in this land, and I will be with thee, and will bless thee, for to thee and to thy seed will I give all these lands; and I established the oath which I sware to Abraham thy father.

And Jehovah will speak to Moses, Go, come up from here, thou, and the people which thou didst bring up out of the land of Egypt to the land which I sware to Abraham, to Isaak, and to Jacob, saying, to thy seed will I give it

And do thou the right and the good in the eyes of Jehovah so that it shall be well to thee, and thou go in and possess the good land which Jehovah sware to thy fathers,

For Jehovah loves you and watches the oath which he sware to your fathers: Jehovah brought you out by a strong hand, and he will redeem thee from the house of servants, from the house of Pharaoh king of Egypt.

To do mercy with our fathers, and to remember his holy covenant: The oath which he sware to Abraham our father,

Jehovah sware the truth to David; he will not turn back from it: from the fruit of thy belly I will set upon the throne to thee. If thy sons shall watch my covenant and my testimonies, these I shall teach them; also their sons even to forever shall sit upon the throne to thee forever.

Thus will God do to Abner, and thus will he add to him, for as Jehovah sware to David that thus I will do to him: To cause the kingdom to pass over from the house of Saul, and to set up the throne of David over Israel and over Judah, from Dan and even to the Well of the Oath.

And from the day I commanded judges over my people Israel, and I gave rest to thee from all thine enemies. And Jehovah announced to thee that Jehovah will make to thee a house. When thy days shall be filled up and thou shalt lie down with thy fathers, and I raised up thy seed after thee which shall come forth thy bowels, and I prepared his kingdom. He shall build a house for my name, and I set the throne of his kingdom even to forever.read more.
I will be to him for father, and he shall be to me for son; who in his sinning I struck him with the rod of men, and with the blows of the sons of men. And my mercy I will not remove from him as I removed from Saul whom I removed from thy face. And thy house was firm and thy kingdom even to forever before thee; thy throne shall be prepared even to forever.

I cut out a covenant to my chosen, I sware to David my servant, Even to forever I will prepare thy seed, and I built up to generation and generation thy throne, Silence.

Therefore being a prophet, and knowing that God swore with an oath to him, of the fruit of his loins, according to the flesh, to raise up Christ to sit upon his throne:

Jehovah sware and he will not lament, Thou a priest forever according to the manner of Melchizedeck.

For he testifies, Thou a priest forever, according to the order of Melchisedec. For there is truly an annulling of the command going before by its weakness and unprofitableness. (For the law completed nothing,) but the bringing in of a better hope; by which we draw near to God.read more.
And as much as not without sacrifice sanctioned by solemn oath: (For they truly without sacrifice sanctioned by solemn oath became priests; but he with the sacrifice sanctioned by solemn oath by him, saying to him, The Lord sware, and will not repent, Thou priest forever, according to the order of Melchisedec:) According to this, Jesus has become security of a better covenant. And they truly are become many priests, by reason of death being hindered from remaining: And he, because he remains forever, has an inviolable priesthood. Wherefore he is able to save entirely those coming to God by him, always living to supplicate for them. For such a chief priest became us, holy, innocent, undefiled, separated from sinners, and being higher than the heavens; Who has no necessity according to the day, as the chief priests, before to bring up sacrifices for their own sins, then for those of the people; for this he did once, having brought up himself. For the law establishes men chief priests having weakness; but the word of the sacrifice sanctioned by solemn oath, after the law, the Son, having been perfected forever.

And Jehovah will hear the voice of your words, and he will be angry, and he will swear, saying, If a man among these men of this evil generation shall see the good land which I sware to give to your fathers, Except Caleb, son of Jephunneh; he shall see it, and to him I will give the land which he trod upon it, and to his sons, because that he filled up after Jehovah.

And Jehovah will say, I pardoned according to thy word: But yet I live, and the glory of Jehovah shall fill all the earth. For all the men having seen my glory and my signs which I did in Egypt and in the desert, and they will try me this ten times, they heard not to my voice.read more.
If they shall see the land which I sware to their fathers, and all despising me shall not see it And my servant Caleb, because another spirit was with him, and he will follow after me, and I brought him into the land which he went there; and his seed shall inherit it. And the Amalekites and the Canaanites will dwell in the valley. Tomorrow turn ye; they shall remove for you into the desert the way of the sea of sedge. And Jehovah will speak to Moses and to Aaron, saying, How long for this evil assembly, that they are murmuring against me? the murmurings of the sons of Israel which they are murmuring against me, I heard. Say to them, I live, says Jehovah, if not as ye spake in mine ears, so will I do to you: In this desert shall your carcasses fall; and all of you being reviewed according to all your number, from the son of twenty years and above, who murmured against me. If ye shall come in to the land which I lifted up my hand for you to dwell in it, except Caleb, son of Jephunneh, and Joshua, son of Nun. And your little ones which ye said shall be for a prey, and I brought them in, and they shall know the land which ye rejected And you, your carcasses shall fall in this desert And your sons shall be fed in the desert forty years, and bear your fornications till your carcasses be finished in the desert According to the number of days which ye searched out the land, forty days, a day a year, a day for a year, shall ye your iniquities; forty years, and ye knew my withdrawal. I Jehovah spake, if not, I will do this to all this evil assembly setting up against me: in this desert shall they be finished, and there shall they die.

Wherefore I was offended with that generation and I said, They always wander in heart; and they knew not my ways. As I aware in my wrath, If they shall come into my rest.)

Forty years I shall loathe to the generation, and saying, A people they wandering in heart, and they knew not my ways: For I sware in mine anger if they shall come in to my rest

For thy passing into the covenant of Jehovah thy God, and into his oath, which Jehovah thy God made with thee this day: In order to set thee this day to him for a people, and he shall be to thee for God as he spake to thee, and as he sware to thy fathers, to Abraham, to Isaak, and to Jacob. And not with you alone do I make this covenant and this oath;read more.
But with those being here with us, standing before Jehovah our God, and with those not here with us this day:

And I shall pass by thee and see thee, and behold, thy time the time of loves; and I shall spread my wing over thee and cover thy nakedness: and I shall swear to thee, and come into covenant with thee, says the Lord Jehovah, and thou shalt be to me.