'Oath' in the Bible
But I say to you, make no oath at all, either by heaven, for it is the throne of God,
Nor shall you make an oath by your head, for you cannot make one hair white or black.
so much that he promised with an oath to give her whatever she asked.
And again he denied it with an oath, “I do not know the man.”
The oath which He swore to Abraham our father,
And so, because he was a prophet and knew that God had sworn to him with an oath to seat one of his descendants on his throne,
When it was day, the Jews formed a conspiracy and bound themselves under an oath, saying that they would neither eat nor drink until they had killed Paul.
They came to the chief priests and the elders and said, “We have bound ourselves under a solemn oath to taste nothing until we have killed Paul.
For men swear by one greater than themselves, and with them an oath given as confirmation is an end of every dispute.
In the same way God, desiring even more to show to the heirs of the promise the unchangeableness of His purpose, interposed with an oath,
And inasmuch as it was not without an oath
(for they indeed became priests without an oath, but He with an oath through the One who said to Him,“The Lord has swornAnd will not change His mind,‘You are a priest forever’”);
For the Law appoints men as high priests who are weak, but the word of the oath, which came after the Law, appoints a Son, made perfect forever.
But above all, my brethren, do not swear, either by heaven or by earth or with any other oath; but your yes is to be yes, and your no, no, so that you may not fall under judgment.
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