13 Bible Verses about Swearing Oaths

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

Whatever man shall sin against his neighbor, and an oath lifted up upon him to cause him to swear, and the oath come before thine altar in this house,

For truly men swear by the greater: and the oath for confirmation to them the end of all controversy.

And he will call it oath: for this the name of the city the well of the oath till this day.

And Abraham will say to the old man of his house ruling over all which is to him, Put now thy hand under my thigh. And I will cause thee to swear by Jehovah, God of the heavens, and God of the earth, that thou wilt not take a wife to my son, from the daughters of the Canaanites in the midst of whom I shall dwell.

And the servant will put his hand under the thigh of Abraham his lord, and swear to him concerning this word.

In his eyes a reprobate being despised; and those fearing Jehovah, he will honor. Swearing to the friend, and he will not change.

An oath of Jehovah shall be between them both if he put not forth his hand to his friend's goods; and its lord shall take and he shall not recompense.

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.

I am to watch the king's mouth by reason of the oath of God.

And the king was grieved: but for his oath, and those reclining together at the table, he ordered to be given.