'Oath' in the Bible

“Again, you have heard that it was said to our ancestors, You must not break your oath, but you must keep your oaths to the Lord.

But I tell you, don’t take an oath at all: either by heaven, because it is God’s throne;

Nor shall you make an oath by your head, for you cannot make one hair white or black.

Whereupon he promised with an oath to give her whatsoever she would ask.

Although it grieved the king, because of his oath and the dinner guests he commanded it to be given.

“Woe to you, blind guides, who say, ‘Whoever takes an oath by the sanctuary, it means nothing. But whoever takes an oath by the gold of the sanctuary is bound by his oath.’

Also, ‘Whoever takes an oath by the altar, it means nothing. But whoever takes an oath by the gift that is on it is bound by his oath.’

Therefore, the one who takes an oath by the altar takes an oath by it and by everything on it.

The one who takes an oath by the sanctuary takes an oath by it and by Him who dwells in it.

And the one who takes an oath by heaven takes an oath by God’s throne and by Him who sits on it.

But Jesus kept silent. Then the high priest said to Him, “By the living God I place You under oath: tell us if You are the Messiah, the Son of God!”

And again he denied with an oath, I do not know the man.

Then he started to curse and to swear with an oath, “I do not know the man!” Immediately a rooster crowed,

He swore with an oath to her, "I'll give you anything you ask for, up to half of my kingdom."

Although it grieved the king deeply, he did not want to reject her request because of his oath and his guests.

Then he started to curse and to swear with an oath, “I don’t know this man you’re talking about!”

The oath which he sware to our father Abraham,

Therefore being a prophet, and knowing that God had sworn with an oath to him, that of the fruit of his loins, according to the flesh, he would raise up Christ to sit on his throne;

And Paul, after waiting some days, went away from the brothers and went by ship to Syria, Priscilla and Aquila being with him; and he had had his hair cut off in Cenchrea, for he had taken an oath.

Do this, then, which we say to you: We have four men who have taken an oath;

Go with these, and make yourself clean with them, and make the necessary payments for them, so that they may be free from their oath: and everyone will see that the statements made about you are not true, but that you put yourself under rule, and keep the law.

In the morning, the Jewish leaders formed a conspiracy and took an oath not to eat or drink anything before they had killed Paul.

and they were more than forty who made this conspiracy by oath,

They went to the high priests and elders and said, "We have taken a solemn oath not to taste any food before we have killed Paul.

But do not thou yield unto them: for there lie in wait for him of them more than forty men, which have bound themselves with an oath, that they will neither eat nor drink till they have killed him: and now are they ready, looking for a promise from thee.

So in my anger I swore a solemn oath that they would never enter my rest."

And to whom did he make an oath that they might not come into his rest? was it not to those who went against his orders?

We who have believed are entering that rest, just as he has said, "So in my anger I swore a solemn oath that they would never enter my rest,"

For when God made his promise to Abraham, he swore an oath by himself, since he had no one greater to swear by.

For men verily swear by the greater: and an oath for confirmation is to them an end of all strife.

Wherein God, willing more abundantly to shew unto the heirs of promise the immutability of his counsel, confirmed it by an oath:

so that by two unchangeable things [His promise and His oath] in which it is impossible for God to lie, we who have fled [to Him] for refuge would have strong encouragement and indwelling strength to hold tightly to the hope set before us.

And inasmuch as not without an oath he was made priest:

(For those priests were made without an oath; but this with an oath by him that said unto him, The Lord sware and will not repent, Thou art a priest for ever after the order of Melchisedec:)

For the law maketh men high priests which have infirmity; but the word of the oath, which was since the law, maketh the Son, who is consecrated for evermore.

Whose voice was the cause of the shaking of the earth; but now he has made an oath, saying, There will be still one more shaking, not only of the earth, but of heaven.

But above all things, my brethren, swear not, neither by heaven, neither by the earth, neither by any other oath: but let your yea be yea; and your nay, nay; lest ye fall into condemnation.

He swore an oath by the One who lives forever and ever, who created heaven and what is in it, the earth and what is in it, and the sea and what is in it: “There will no longer be an interval of time,