Bible Verses About Making an Oath

If a man vow a vow unto the Lord, or swear an oath to bind his soul with a bond; he shall not break his word, he shall do according to all that proceedeth out of his mouth.

That thou shouldest enter into covenant with the Lord thy God, and into his oath, which the Lord thy God maketh with thee this day:

And he that shall swear by heaven, sweareth by the throne of God, and by him that sitteth thereon.

For men verily swear by the greater: and an oath for confirmation is to them an end of all strife.

I counsel thee to keep the king’s commandment, and that in regard of the oath of God.

But above all things, my brethren, swear not, neither by heaven, neither by the earth, neither by any other oath: but let your yea be yea; and your nay, nay; lest ye fall into condemnation.

And they said, We saw certainly that the Lord was with thee: and we said, Let there be now an oath betwixt us, even betwixt us and thee, and let us make a covenant with thee;

Then arose Ezra, and made the chief priests, the Levites, and all Israel, to swear that they should do according to this word. And they sware.

Whoso therefore shall swear by the altar, sweareth by it, and by all things thereon.

If any man trespass against his neighbour, and an oath be laid upon him to cause him to swear, and the oath come before thine altar in this house:

If a man sin against his neighbour, and an oath be laid upon him to make him swear, and the oath come before thine altar in this house;

Neither with you only do I make this covenant and this oath;

Or if a soul swear, pronouncing with his lips to do evil, or to do good, whatsoever it be that a man shall pronounce with an oath, and it be hid from him; when he knoweth of it, then he shall be guilty in one of these.

And inasmuch as not without an oath he was made priest:

And whoso shall swear by the temple, sweareth by it, and by him that dwelleth therein.

And if thou utter this our business, then we will be quit of thine oath which thou hast made us to swear.

I have sworn, and I will perform it, that I will keep thy righteous judgments.

And, Whosoever shall swear by the altar, it is nothing; but whosoever sweareth by the gift that is upon it, he is guilty.

Now therefore come thou, let us make a covenant, I and thou; and let it be for a witness between me and thee.

Why then hast thou not kept the oath of the Lord, and the commandment that I have charged thee with?

Then shall an oath of the Lord be between them both, that he hath not put his hand unto his neighbour’s goods; and the owner of it shall accept thereof, and he shall not make it good.

Thou hast avouched the Lord this day to be thy God, and to walk in his ways, and to keep his statutes, and his commandments, and his judgments, and to hearken unto his voice:

I have sworn by myself, the word is gone out of my mouth in righteousness, and shall not return, That unto me every knee shall bow, every tongue shall swear.

For when God made promise to Abraham, because he could swear by no greater, he sware by himself,

They clave to their brethren, their nobles, and entered into a curse, and into an oath, to walk in God’s law, which was given by Moses the servant of God, and to observe and do all the commandments of the Lord our Lord, and his judgments and his statutes;

And the men said unto her, We will be blameless of this thine oath which thou hast made us swear.

And ye shall not swear by my name falsely, neither shalt thou profane the name of thy God: I am the Lord.

Wherein God, willing more abundantly to shew unto the heirs of promise the immutability of his counsel, confirmed it by an oath:

Once have I sworn by my holiness that I will not lie unto David.

Neither shalt thou swear by thy head, because thou canst not make one hair white or black.

But I say unto you, Swear not at all; neither by heaven; for it is God’s throne:

And if she vowed in her husband’s house, or bound her soul by a bond with an oath;

Thou shalt fear the Lord thy God; him shalt thou serve, and to him shalt thou cleave, and swear by his name.

And let none of you imagine evil in your hearts against his neighbour; and love no false oath: for all these are things that I hate, saith the Lord.

Thou shalt fear the Lord thy God, and serve him, and shalt swear by his name.

Every vow, and every binding oath to afflict the soul, her husband may establish it, or her husband may make it void.

And the king stood by a pillar, and made a covenant before the Lord, to walk after the Lord, and to keep his commandments and his testimonies and his statutes with all their heart and all their soul, to perform the words of this covenant that were written in this book. And all the people stood to the covenant.

And Abraham said, I will swear.

The oath which he sware to our father Abraham,

But all the princes said unto all the congregation, We have sworn unto them by the Lord God of Israel: now therefore we may not touch them.