Swearing Falsely

Torrey's New Topical Textbook

Topic from Torrey's New Topical Textbook (R. A. Torrey) — 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 30:2 OT

  When a man vows a vow to Yahweh, or swears an oath to bind his soul with a bond, he shall not break his word. He shall do according to all that proceeds out of his mouth.

• 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,’

• 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.

• Leviticus 6:2 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,

• Leviticus 6:3 OT

  or has found that which was lost, and lied about it, and swearing to a lie—in any of these things that a man sins in his actions—

• Joshua 9:20 OT

  We will do this to them, and let them live; lest wrath be on us, because of the oath which we swore to them.”

• 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;

• Psalms 24:4 OT

  He who has clean hands and a pure heart; who has not lifted up his soul to falsehood, and has not sworn deceitfully.

• Psalms 24:5 OT

  He shall receive a blessing from Yahweh, righteousness from the God of his salvation.

• Jeremiah 5:2 OT

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

• 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.

• 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 7:10 OT

  then come and stand before me in this house, which is called by my name, and say, ‘We are delivered,’ that you may do all these abominations?

• 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…

• Zechariah 5:3 OT

  Then he said to me, “This is the curse that goes out over the surface of the whole land; for everyone who steals shall be cut off according to it on the one side; and everyone who swears falsely shall be cut off according to it on the…

• 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…

• Deuteronomy 19:16 OT

  If an unrighteous witness rises up against any man to testify against him of wrongdoing,

• Deuteronomy 19:18 OT

  and the judges shall make diligent inquisition; and behold, if the witness is a false witness, and has testified falsely against his brother,

• 1 Samuel 19:6 OT

  Saul listened to the voice of Jonathan: and Saul swore, “As Yahweh lives, he shall not be put to death.”

• 1 Samuel 19:10 OT

  Saul sought to pin David to the wall with the spear; but he slipped away out of Saul’s presence, and he stuck the spear into the wall. David fled, and escaped that night.

• 1 Kings 2:41-43 OT

  Solomon was told that Shimei had gone from Jerusalem to Gath, and had come again. The king sent and called for Shimei, and said to him, “Didn’t I adjure you by Yahweh, and warn you, saying, ‘Know for certain, that on the day you go out,…

• Ezekiel 16:59 OT

  “ ‘For the Lord Yahweh says: “I will also deal with you as you have done, who have despised the oath in breaking the covenant.

• Ezekiel 17:13-19 OT

  He took some of the royal offspring, and made a covenant with him. He also brought him under an oath, and took away the mighty of the land; that the kingdom might be brought low, that it might not lift itself up, but that by keeping his…