55 Bible Verses about Swearing

But I say to you, Take no oaths at all: not by the heaven, because it is the seat of God;

But most of all, my brothers, do not take oaths, not by the heaven, or by the earth, or by any other thing: but let your Yes be Yes, and your No be No: so that you may not be judged.

You may not take an oath by your head, because you are not able to make one hair white or black.

Then with curses and oaths he said, I have no knowledge of the man. And straight away there came the cry of a cock.

And if anyone does wrong by saying nothing when he is put under oath as a witness of something he has seen or had knowledge of, then he will be responsible:

But let your words be simply, Yes or No: and whatever is more than these is of the Evil One.

And do not take an oath in my name falsely, putting shame on the name of your God: I am the Lord.

And take an oath by the Lord, the God of heaven and the God of the earth, that you will not get a wife for my son Isaac from the daughters of the Canaanites among whom I am living;

Then the priest will put the oath of the curse on the woman, and say to her, May the Lord make you a curse and an oath among your people, sending on you wasting of the legs and disease of the stomach;

And, Whoever takes an oath by the altar, it is nothing; but whoever takes an oath by the offering which is on it, he is responsible.

For when God made his oath to Abraham, because there was no greater oath, he made it by himself,

Out of the same mouth comes blessing and cursing. My brothers, it is not right for these things to be so.

For the land is full of men who are untrue to their wives; because of the curse the land is full of grief; the green fields of the waste land have become dry; and they are quick to do evil, their strength is for what is not right.

Saying, I have taken an oath by my name, says the Lord, because you have done this and have not kept back from me your dearly loved only son,

Then, opening his mouth, and cursing the day of his birth,

A curse is on you, blind guides, who say, Whoever takes an oath by the Temple, it is nothing; but whoever takes an oath by the gold of the Temple, he is responsible.

Or by the earth, because it is the resting-place for his foot; or by Jerusalem, because it is the town of the great King.

Or if anyone, without thought, takes an oath to do evil or to do good, whatever he says without thought, with an oath, having no knowledge of what he is doing; when it becomes clear to him, he will be responsible for any of these things.

For men at all times make their oaths by what is greater; and any argument is ended by the decision of the oath.

As he took pleasure in cursing, so let it come on him; and as he had no delight in blessing, let it be far from him.

Give ear to this, O family of Jacob, you who are named by the name of Israel, and have come out of the body of Judah; who take oaths by the name of the Lord, and make use of the name of the God of Israel, but not truly and not in good faith.

For lifting up my hand to heaven I say, By my unending life,

And he who takes an oath by the Temple, takes it by the Temple and by him whose house it is

Or has taken a false oath about the loss of something which he has come across by chance; if a man has done any of these evil things,

He, then, who takes an oath by the altar, takes it by the altar and by all things on it.

And I took up the cause against them, cursing them and giving blows to some of them and pulling out their hair; and I made them take an oath by God, saying, You are not to give your daughters to their sons or take their daughters for your sons or for yourselves.

Then he said to me, This is the curse which goes out over the face of all the land: for long enough has every thief gone without punishment, and long enough has every taker of false oaths gone without punishment.

Because of the sin of their mouths and the word of their lips, let them even be taken in their pride; and for their curses and their deceit,

Do not give ear to all the words which men say, for fear of hearing the curses of your servant.

And Abraham said, I will give you my oath.

And I will send it out, says the Lord of armies, and it will go into the house of the thief and into the house of him who takes a false oath by my name: and it will be in his house, causing its complete destruction, with its woodwork and its stones.

And it will be that, if they give their minds to learning the ways of my people, using my name in their oaths, By the living Lord; as they have been teaching my people to take oaths by the Baal; then their place will be made certain among my people.

When a man takes an oath to the Lord, or gives an undertaking having the force of an oath, let him not go back from his word, but let him do whatever he has said he will do.

He put on cursing like a robe, and it has come into his body like water, and into his bones like oil.

By myself have I taken an oath, a true word has gone from my mouth, and will not be changed, that to me every knee will be bent, and every tongue will give honour.

But, with curses and oaths, he said, I have no knowledge of the man about whom you are talking.

So that he who is requesting a blessing will make use of the name of the true God, and he who takes an oath will do so by the true God; because the past troubles are gone out of mind, and because they are covered from my eyes.

And he who takes an oath by heaven, takes it by the seat of God, and by him who is seated on it.

So now, will you give me your oath by the Lord, that, because I have been kind to you, you will be kind to my father's house,

Those who make their oaths by the sin of Samaria and say, By the life of your God, O Dan; and, By the living way of Beer-sheba; even they will go down, never again to be lifted up.

And you will take your oath, By the living Lord, in good faith and wisdom and righteousness; and the nations will make use of you as a blessing, and in you will they take a pride.

For this cause the Lord has said, See, I have taken an oath that the nations which are round about you are themselves to undergo the shame which they have put on you.

Let the fear of the Lord your God be before you, give him worship and be true to him at all times, taking your oaths in his name.

You are not to make use of the name of the Lord your God for an evil purpose; whoever takes the Lord's name on his lips for an evil purpose will be judged a sinner by the Lord

There is cursing and broken faith, violent death and attacks on property, men are untrue in married life, houses are broken into, and there is blood touching blood.

And when it was day, the Jews came together and put themselves under an oath that they would take no food or drink till they had put Paul to death.

Now, then, give me your oath, in the name of God, that you will not be false to me or to my sons after me, but that as I have been good to you, so you will be to me and to this land where you have been living.

For this cause, see, the days are coming, says the Lord, when it will no longer be said, By the living Lord, who took the children of Israel up out of the land of Egypt.