9 Bible Verses about Swearing Oaths Falsely

They have spoken words, swearing falsely in making a covenant. So judgment springs up like hemlock in the furrows of the field.

Will you steal, murder, and commit adultery, and swear falsely, and burn incense to Baal, and walk after other gods whom you do not know;

And though they say, As Jehovah lives; surely they swear falsely.

Or if a soul swears, pronouncing with his lips to do evil or to do good, whatever it is that a man speaks rashly with an oath, and it is hidden from him, and he knows, then he shall be guilty of one of these.

I will bring it forth, says Jehovah of Hosts; and it shall enter into the house of the thief, and into the house of him who swears falsely by My name. And it shall remain in the midst of his house, and shall devour it, and its timber and its stones.

or has found that which was lost and lies concerning it and swears falsely-- in any of all these that a man does, sinning in it,

Hear this, O house of Jacob, who are called by the name of Israel, and have come out of the waters of Judah; who swear by the name of Jehovah and make mention of the God of Israel (but not in truth nor in righteousness).

He who has clean hands and a pure heart; who has not lifted up his soul to vanity, and has not sworn deceitfully.

And he said to me, This is the curse that goes forth over the face of the whole earth; for from now on everyone who steals shall be cut off according to it; and everyone who swears from now on shall be cut off according to it.