Perjury

Nave's Topical Bible

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

• Leviticus 6:2-7 OT

  “If anyone sins, and commits a trespass against Yahweh, and deals falsely with his neighbor in a matter of deposit, or of bargain, or of robbery, or has oppressed his neighbor, or has found that which was lost, and lied about it, and…

• Leviticus 19:12 OT

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

• 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 5:2 OT

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

• 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,

• Hosea 10:4 OT

  They make promises, swearing falsely in making covenants. Therefore judgment springs up like poisonous weeds in the furrows of the field.

• Zechariah 5:4 OT

  I will cause it to go out,” says Yahweh of Armies, “and it will enter into the house of the thief, and into the house of him who swears falsely by my name; and it will remain in the middle of his house, and will destroy it with its timber…

• Zechariah 8:17 OT

  and let none of you devise evil in your hearts against his neighbor, and love no false oath: for all these are things that I hate,” says Yahweh.

• Malachi 3:5 OT

  I will come near to you to judgment; and I will be a swift witness against the sorcerers, and against the adulterers, and against the perjurers, and against those who oppress the hireling in his wages, the widow, and the fatherless, and…

• Matthew 5:33 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,’

• 1 Timothy 1:9 NT

  as knowing this, that law is not made for a righteous person, but for the lawless and insubordinate, for the ungodly and sinners, for the unholy and profane, for murderers of fathers and murderers of mothers, for manslayers,

• 1 Timothy 1:10 NT

  for the sexually immoral, for homosexuals, for slave-traders, for liars, for perjurers, and for any other thing contrary to the sound doctrine,

• 2 Chronicles 36:13 OT

  He also rebelled against king Nebuchadnezzar, who had made him swear by God; but he stiffened his neck, and hardened his heart against turning to Yahweh, the God of Israel.

• 1 Kings 21:8-13 OT

  So she wrote letters in Ahab’s name, and sealed them with his seal, and sent the letters to the elders and to the nobles who were in his city, who lived with Naboth. She wrote in the letters, saying, “Proclaim a fast, and set Naboth on…

• Psalms 35:11 OT

  Unrighteous witnesses rise up. They ask me about things that I don’t know about.

• Matthew 26:59 NT

  Now the chief priests, the elders, and the whole council sought false testimony against Jesus, that they might put him to death;

• Mark 14:56 NT

  For many gave false testimony against him, and their testimony didn’t agree with each other.

• Mark 14:57 NT

  Some stood up, and gave false testimony against him, saying,

• Acts 6:11 NT

  Then they secretly induced men to say, “We have heard him speak blasphemous words against Moses and God.”

• Acts 6:13 NT

  and set up false witnesses who said, “This man never stops speaking blasphemous words against this holy place and the law.

• Acts 6:14 NT

  For we have heard him say that this Jesus of Nazareth will destroy this place, and will change the customs which Moses delivered to us.”

• Matthew 26:74 NT

  Then he began to curse and to swear, “I don’t know the man!” Immediately the rooster crowed.

• Mark 14:71 NT

  But he began to curse, and to swear, “I don’t know this man of whom you speak!”