13 Bible Verses about Swearing Oaths

But, before all things, my brethren, do not swear, - either by heaven, or by the earth, or by any other oath; but let your Yea be yea, and your Nay nay, - lest, under judgment, ye fall.

When a man shall sin against his neighbour, and there shall be taken up against him an oath, to put him on oath, - and he shall come in and swear before thine altar, in this house,

For, men, by the greater one, swear, and, with them, an end of all gainsaying by way of confirmation is, the oath:

So he called it, Shibah. For this cause, hath the name of the city, been Beer-sheba, unto this day.

So Abraham said unto his servant, elder of his house, ruler of all that he had, - Place, I pray thee thy hand under my thigh; that I may put thee on oath, by Yahweh God of the heavens and God of the earth - That thou wilt not take a wife for my son, from among the daughters of the Canaanites in the midst of whom, I, am dwelling:

So the servant placed his hand, under the thigh of Abraham, his lord, - and sware to him, over this thing.

Despised in his sight, is the reprobate, but, them who revere Yahweh, he doth honour, he hath sworn to his neighbour, and will not change;

the oath of Yahweh, shall come between them both, That he hath not laid his hand on the property of his neighbour, - then shall the owner thereof accept it and he shall not make restitution.

By myself, have I sworn, Gone forth out of my mouth, is righteousness as a decree And shall not turn back, - That, unto myself, Shall bow every knee, Shall swear every tongue:

I said , The bidding of the king, observe thou, even out of regard to the oath of God.

And the king, though grieved, yet, because of the oaths and the guests, ordered it to be given;