9 Bible Verses about Swearing Oaths Falsely

They utter empty words and make false promises and useless treaties. Justice has become injustice, growing like poisonous weeds in a plowed field.

Will you steal, murder, commit adultery, swear falsely, offer sacrifices to Baal and walk after other gods that you have not known?

Even though you claim to worship Jehovah, you do not mean what you say.

When you pledge a vow in haste about what you will or will not do, as some people do, and then ignore it; although you know what you said, you will be guilty.

I will cause it to happen, said Jehovah of Hosts, and it will enter into the house of the thief, and into the house of he who swears falsely by my name. The curse will abide in the midst of his house and will consume it with the timber and the stones of the house.

If you find something that someone lost and lie about it under oath, or commit any other sin like this,

Listen to this, people of Israel, you that are descended from Judah. You swear by the name of Jehovah and claim to worship the God of Israel. However you do not mean a word you say.

He who has clean hands and a pure heart, who has not lifted up (turned) to falsehood and has not sworn deceitfully.

He continued: This is the curse that is upon the land. Every one who steals will be acquitted. Every one who swears falsely will be innocent.