Oath

Nave's Topical Bible

Topic from Nave's Topical Bible (Orville J. Nave, 1897) — public domain.

• Leviticus 19:12 OT

  “ ‘You shall not swear by my name falsely, and profane the name of your God. I am Yahweh.

• Numbers 5:19-24 OT

  The priest shall cause her to take an oath and shall tell the woman, “If no man has lain with you, and if you haven’t gone aside to uncleanness, being under your husband’s authority, be free from this water of bitterness that brings a…

• Deuteronomy 5:11 OT

  “You shall not misuse the name of Yahweh your God; for Yahweh will not hold him guiltless who misuses his name.

• Deuteronomy 6:13 OT

  You shall fear Yahweh your God; and you shall serve him, and shall swear by his name.

• Deuteronomy 10:20 OT

  You shall fear Yahweh your God. You shall serve him. You shall cling to him, and you shall swear by his name.

• 1 Kings 8:31 OT

  “If a man sins against his neighbor, and an oath is laid on him to cause him to swear, and he comes and swears before your altar in this house;

• 1 Kings 8:32 OT

  then hear in heaven, and act, and judge your servants, condemning the wicked, to bring his way on his own head, and justifying the righteous, to give him according to his righteousness.

• Psalms 15:1 OT

  Yahweh, who shall dwell in your sanctuary? Who shall live on your holy hill?

• Psalms 15:2 OT

  He who walks blamelessly and does what is right, and speaks truth in his heart;

• Psalms 15:4 OT

  in whose eyes a vile man is despised, but who honors those who fear Yahweh; he who keeps an oath even when it hurts, and doesn’t change;

• Ecclesiastes 8:2 OT

  I say, “Keep the king’s command!” because of the oath to God.

• Isaiah 48:1 OT

  “Hear this, house of Jacob, you who are called by the name of Israel, and have come out of the waters of Judah. You swear by Yahweh’s name, and make mention of the God of Israel, but not in truth, nor in righteousness—

• Jeremiah 4:2 OT

  and you will swear, ‘As Yahweh lives,’ in truth, in justice, and in righteousness. The nations will bless themselves in him, and they will glory in him.”

• Jeremiah 5:2 OT

  Though they say, ‘As Yahweh lives,’ surely they swear falsely.”

• Jeremiah 5:7 OT

  “How can I pardon you? Your children have forsaken me, and sworn by what are no gods. When I had fed them to the full, they committed adultery, and assembled themselves in troops at the prostitutes’ houses.

• Jeremiah 7:8 OT

  Behold, you trust in lying words that can’t profit.

• Jeremiah 7:9 OT

  Will you steal, murder, commit adultery, swear falsely, burn incense to Baal, and walk after other gods that you have not known,

• Jeremiah 12:16 OT

  It will happen, if they will diligently learn the ways of my people, to swear by my name, ‘As Yahweh lives;’ even as they taught my people to swear by Baal, then they will be built up in the middle of my people.

• Daniel 9:11 OT

  Yes, all Israel have transgressed your law, turning aside, that they should not obey your voice. “Therefore the curse and the oath written in the law of Moses the servant of God has been poured out on us; for we have sinned against him.

• Daniel 12:7 OT

  I heard the man clothed in linen, who was above the waters of the river, when he held up his right hand and his left hand to heaven, and swore by him who lives forever that it will be for a time, times, and a half; and when they have…

• Hosea 4:15 OT

  “Though you, Israel, play the prostitute, yet don’t let Judah offend; and don’t come to Gilgal, neither go up to Beth Aven, nor swear, ‘As Yahweh lives.’

• Matthew 5:33-37 NT

  “Again you have heard that it was said to the ancient ones, ‘You shall not make false vows, but shall perform to the Lord your vows,’ but I tell you, don’t swear at all: neither by heaven, for it is the throne of God; nor by the earth, for…

• Matthew 14:3-12 NT

  For Herod had arrested John, and bound him, and put him in prison for the sake of Herodias, his brother Philip’s wife. For John said to him, “It is not lawful for you to have her.” When he would have put him to death, he feared the…

• Matthew 23:18-22 NT

  ‘Whoever swears by the altar, it is nothing; but whoever swears by the gift that is on it, he is obligated?’ You blind fools! For which is greater, the gift, or the altar that sanctifies the gift? He therefore who swears by the altar,…