Thematic Bible
Thematic Bible
Oath » Attributed to God
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.
Jehovah of armies sware by his soul: That if I filled thee with men as with locusts, and they struck up a shout against thee.
And to whom sware he that they could not come into his rest, if not to them having been disobedient?
Jehovah of armies sware, saying, If not as I purposed thus it was, and as I counseled, this shall stand:
To establish the oath which I sware to your fathers, to give to them a land flowing milk and honey, as this day. And I shall answer and say, Verily, O Jehovah.
For by myself did I swear, says Jehovah, that Bozrah shall be for a desolation, for a reproach, and for a waste, and for a curse; and all her cities shall be for wastes forever.
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.
In which God, willing more abundantly to show to the heirs of the promise the firmness of his counsel, he intervened by an oath:
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.
Which he cut out with Abraham, and his oath to Isaak.
For we having believed come into the rest, as he said, As I sware in my wrath, if they shall come into my rest: although the works having been from the foundation of the world.
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.
And sware by him living for ever and ever, who created the heaven, and all in it, and earth, and all things in it, and the sea, and all in it, that time shall be no more:
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.
And if ye will not bear these words, by myself I sware, says Jehovah, that this house shall be for a desolation.
(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:)