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“Again you have heard that it was said to them of old time, ‘You shall not make false vows, but shall perform to the Lord your vows,’ — read the full passage →

But above all things, my brothers, don’t swear, neither by heaven, nor by the earth, nor by any other oath; but let your “yes” be “yes”, and your “no”, “no”; so that you don’t fall into hypocrisy.

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.

When you vow a vow to Yahweh your God, you shall not be slack to pay it; for Yahweh your God will surely require it of you; and it would be sin in you. — read the full passage →

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

“Woe to you, you blind guides, who say, ‘Whoever swears by the temple, it is nothing; but whoever swears by the gold of the temple, he is obligated.’ — read the full passage →

For men indeed swear by a greater one, and in every dispute of theirs the oath is final for confirmation.

“You shall not take the name of Yahweh your God in vain, for Yahweh will not hold him guiltless who takes his name in vain.

But I call God for a witness to my soul, that I didn’t come to Corinth to spare you.

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;

For when God made a promise to Abraham, since he could swear by no one greater, he swore by himself,

In this way God, being determined to show more abundantly to the heirs of the promise the immutability of his counsel, interposed with an oath;

but I tell you, don’t swear at all: neither by heaven, for it is the throne of God;

When you vow a vow to God, don’t defer to pay it; for he has no pleasure in fools. Pay that which you vow. — read the full passage →

For the law appoints men as high priests who have weakness, but the word of the oath which came after the law appoints a Son forever who has been perfected.

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

For men indeed swear by a greater one, and in every dispute of theirs the oath is final for confirmation. — read the full passage →

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

To whom did he swear that they wouldn’t enter into his rest, but to those who were disobedient?

But let your ‘Yes’ be ‘Yes’ and your ‘No’ be ‘No.’ Whatever is more than these is of the evil one.

Jephthah vowed a vow to Yahweh, and said, “If you will indeed deliver the children of Ammon into my hand, — read the full passage →

When you vow a vow to God, don’t defer to pay it; for he has no pleasure in fools. Pay that which you vow.

(for they indeed have been made priests without an oath), but he with an oath by him that says of him, “The Lord swore and will not change his mind, ‘You are a priest forever, according to the order of Melchizedek.’”

‘Whoever swears by the altar, it is nothing; but whoever swears by the gift that is on it, he is obligated?’ — read the full passage →

and said, “I have sworn by myself, says Yahweh, because you have done this thing, and have not withheld your son, your only son, — read the full passage →

“Again you have heard that it was said to them of old time, ‘You shall not make false vows, but shall perform to the Lord your vows,’

It shall 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 shall they be built up in the midst of my people.

Whereupon he promised with an oath to give her whatever she should ask. — read the full passage →

Now about the things which I write to you, behold, before God, I’m not lying.

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

the oath of Yahweh shall be between them both, whether he hasn’t put his hand to his neighbor’s goods; and its owner shall accept it, and he shall not make restitution.

the oath which he spoke to Abraham, our father,

But Jesus held his peace. The high priest answered him, “I adjure you by the living God, that you tell us whether you are the Christ, the Son of God.”

that I may establish the oath which I swore to your fathers, to give them a land flowing with milk and honey, as at this day. Then answered I, and said, Amen, Yahweh.

Seeing the multitudes, he went up onto the mountain. When he had sat down, his disciples came to him. — read the full passage →

Then they said, “We will restore them, and will require nothing of them; so will we do, even as you say.” Then I called the priests, and took an oath of them, that they would do according to this promise.

When it was day, some of the Jews banded together, and bound themselves under a curse, saying that they would neither eat nor drink until they had killed Paul. — read the full passage →

but I tell you, don’t swear at all: neither by heaven, for it is the throne of God; — read the full passage →

The children of Israel said, “Who is there among all the tribes of Israel who didn’t come up in the assembly to Yahweh?” For they had made a great oath concerning him who didn’t come up to Yahweh to Mizpah, saying, “He shall surely be put to death.”

For we who have believed do enter into that rest, even as he has said, “As I swore in my wrath, they will not enter into my rest”; although the works were finished from the foundation of the world.

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

then the priest shall cause the woman to swear with the oath of cursing, and the priest shall tell the woman, “Yahweh make you a curse and an oath among your people, when Yahweh allows your thigh to fall away, and your body to swell;

For God is my witness, how I long after all of you in the tender mercies of Christ Jesus.

“‘Or if anyone swears rashly with his lips to do evil, or to do good, whatever it is that a man might utter rashly with an oath, and it is hidden from him; when he knows of it, then he shall be guilty of one of these. — read the full passage →

For God is my witness, whom I serve in my spirit in the Good News of his Son, how unceasingly I make mention of you always in my prayers,

Then king Solomon swore by Yahweh, saying, “God do so to me, and more also, if Adonijah has not spoken this word against his own life.

So Zedekiah the king swore secretly to Jeremiah, saying, As Yahweh lives, who made us this soul, I will not put you to death, neither will I give you into the hand of these men who seek your life.

“‘Or if anyone swears rashly with his lips to do evil, or to do good, whatever it is that a man might utter rashly with an oath, and it is hidden from him; when he knows of it, then he shall be guilty of one of these. — read the full passage →

Joseph took an oath of the children of Israel, saying, “God will surely visit you, and you shall carry up my bones from here.”

where you die, will I die, and there will I be buried. Yahweh do so to me, and more also, if anything but death part you and me.”

He who swears by heaven, swears by the throne of God, and by him who sits on it.

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

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

When you vow a vow to Yahweh your God, you shall not be slack to pay it; for Yahweh your God will surely require it of you; and it would be sin in you.

The time drew near that Israel must die, and he called his son Joseph, and said to him, “If now I have found favor in your sight, please put your hand under my thigh, and deal kindly and truly with me. Please don’t bury me in Egypt,

But Jesus held his peace. The high priest answered him, “I adjure you by the living God, that you tell us whether you are the Christ, the Son of God.” — read the full passage →

Abraham said to his servant, the elder of his house, who ruled over all that he had, “Please put your hand under my thigh.

and said, “I have sworn by myself, says Yahweh, because you have done this thing, and have not withheld your son, your only son,

Whereas you don’t know what your life will be like tomorrow. For what is your life? For you are a vapor, that appears for a little time, and then vanishes away.

She vowed a vow, and said, “Yahweh of Armies, if you will indeed look on the affliction of your handmaid, and remember me, and not forget your handmaid, but will give to your handmaid a boy, then I will give him to Yahweh all the days of his life, and no razor shall come on his head.”

Stay this night, and it shall be in the morning, that if he will perform for you the part of a kinsman, well; let him do the kinsman’s part. But if he will not do the part of a kinsman for you, then I will do the part of a kinsman for you, as Yahweh lives. Lie down until the morning.”

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.

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

But seek first God’s Kingdom, and his righteousness; and all these things will be given to you as well.

“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.

All the people came to cause David to eat bread while it was yet day; but David swore, saying, “God do so to me, and more also, if I taste bread, or anything else, until the sun goes down.”

Jephthah vowed a vow to Yahweh, and said, “If you will indeed deliver the children of Ammon into my hand, — read the full passage →

as I swore in my wrath, ‘They will not enter into my rest.’”

David swore moreover, and said, “Your father knows well that I have found favor in your eyes; and he says, ‘Don’t let Jonathan know this, lest he be grieved:’ but truly as Yahweh lives, and as your soul lives, there is but a step between me and death.”

The priest shall cause her to swear, 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, be free from this water of bitterness that brings a curse.

I have sworn by myself, the word has gone out of my mouth in righteousness, and will not return, that to me every knee shall bow, every tongue shall take an oath.

The servant put his hand under the thigh of Abraham his master, and swore to him concerning this matter.

Now, therefore, swear to me here by God that you will not deal falsely with me, nor with my son, nor with my son’s son. But according to the kindness that I have done to you, you shall do to me, and to the land in which you have lived as a foreigner.”

“If a man delivers to his neighbor a donkey, an ox, a sheep, or any animal to keep, and it dies or is injured, or driven away, no man seeing it; — read the full passage →

Because Christ also suffered for sins once, the righteous for the unrighteous, that he might bring you to God; being put to death in the flesh, but made alive in the spirit; — read the full passage →

Then Ezra arose, and made the chiefs of the priests, the Levites, and all Israel, to swear that they would do according to this word. So they swore.

Live in this land, and I will be with you, and will bless you. For to you, and to your seed, I will give all these lands, and I will establish the oath which I swore to Abraham your father.

Neither shall you swear by your head, for you can’t make one hair white or black.

They rose up some time in the morning, and swore one to another. Isaac sent them away, and they departed from him in peace.

Abram said to the king of Sodom, “I have lifted up my hand to Yahweh, God Most High, possessor of heaven and earth,

Then they said to Jeremiah, Yahweh be a true and faithful witness among us, if we don’t do according to all the word with which Yahweh your God shall send you to us.

Yahweh has sworn, and will not change his mind: “You are a priest forever in the order of Melchizedek.”

saying, “Surely blessing I will bless you, and multiplying I will multiply you.”

Then he said, “God do so to me, and more also, if the head of Elisha the son of Shaphat shall stay on him this day.”

For when God made a promise to Abraham, since he could swear by no one greater, he swore by himself, — read the full passage →

Jesus said to him, “I am the way, the truth, and the life. No one comes to the Father, except through me.

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

For Herod had laid hold of John, and bound him, and put him in prison for the sake of Herodias, his brother Philip’s wife. — read the full passage →

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

If we confess our sins, he is faithful and righteous to forgive us the sins, and to cleanse us from all unrighteousness.

Inasmuch as he was not made priest without the taking of an oath — read the full passage →

I solemnly command you by the Lord that this letter be read to all the holy brothers.

For I desire to have you know how greatly I struggle for you, and for those at Laodicea, and for as many as have not seen my face in the flesh; — read the full passage →

nor by the earth, for it is the footstool of his feet; nor by Jerusalem, for it is the city of the great King.

It is a snare to a man to make a rash dedication, then later to consider his vows.

Then the Spirit of Yahweh came on Jephthah, and he passed over Gilead and Manasseh, and passed over Mizpah of Gilead, and from Mizpah of Gilead he passed over to the children of Ammon. — read the full passage →

and said, “I have sworn by myself, says Yahweh, because you have done this thing, and have not withheld your son, your only son, — read the full passage →

But to the married I command—not I, but the Lord—that the wife not leave her husband — read the full passage →

For everything spoken by God is possible.”

Therefore I swore in my wrath, “They won’t enter into my rest.”