13 Bible Verses about Swearing Oaths

But before all things, my brethren, swear not, neither by heaven, nor by the earth, nor by any other oath; but let your yea be yea, and your nay, nay, that ye do not fall under judgment.

If a man have sinned against his neighbour, and an oath be laid upon him to adjure him, and the oath come before thine altar in this house;

For men indeed swear by a greater, and with them the oath is a term to all dispute, as making matters sure.

And he called it Shebah; therefore the name of the city is Beer-sheba to this day.

And Abraham said to his servant, the eldest of his house, who ruled over all that he had, Put thy hand, I pray thee, under my thigh, and I will make thee swear by Jehovah, the God of the heavens and the God of the earth, that thou take not a wife for my son of the daughters of the Canaanites, among whom I am dwelling;

And the servant put his hand under the thigh of Abraham his master, and swore unto him concerning that matter.

In whose eyes the depraved person is contemned, and who honoureth them that fear Jehovah; who, if he have sworn to his own hurt, changeth it not;

an oath of Jehovah shall be between them both, that he hath not put his hand unto his neighbour's goods; and the owner of it shall accept it, and he shall not make it good.

I have sworn by myself, the word is gone out of my mouth in righteousness and shall not return, that unto me every knee shall bow, every tongue shall swear.

I say, Keep the king's commandment, and that on account of the oath of God.

And the king was grieved; but on account of the oaths, and those lying at table with him, he commanded it to be given.