Bible verses about "oaths" | Darby

⁴ In whose eyes the depraved person is contemned, and who honoureth them that fear Jehovah; who, if he have sworn to his own hurt, changeth it not;

¹⁶ For men indeed swear by a greater, and with them the oath is a term to all dispute, as making matters sure.

¹⁸ And to whom sware he that they should not enter into his rest, but to those who had not hearkened to the word?

²⁸ For the law constitutes men high priests, having infirmity; but the word of the swearing of the oath which [is] after the law, a Son perfected for ever.

²¹ (for they are become priests without the swearing of an oath, but he with the swearing of an oath, by him who said, as to him, The Lord has sworn, and will not repent [of it], *Thou* [art] priest for ever [according to the order of Melchisedec];)

¹⁷ Wherein God, willing to shew more abundantly to the heirs of the promise the unchangeableness of his purpose, intervened by an oath,

¹³ For God, having promised to Abraham, since he had no greater to swear by, swore by himself,

²¹ When thou vowest a vow to Jehovah thy God, thou shalt not delay to perform it; for Jehovah thy God will certainly require it of thee, and it shall be sin in thee. ²² But if thou forbear to vow, it shall be no sin in thee. ²³ What is gone out of thy lips thou shalt keep and do, as thou hast vowed to Jehovah thy God, the voluntary-offering that thou hast promised with thy mouth.

² If a man vow a vow to Jehovah, or swear an oath to bind his soul with a bond, he shall not break his word; according to all that hath gone out of his mouth shall he do.

¹² But before all things, my brethren, swear not, neither by heaven, nor by the earth, nor by any other oath; but let your yea be yea, and your nay, nay, that ye do not fall under judgment.

³³ Again, ye have heard that it has been said to the ancients, Thou shalt not forswear thyself, but shalt render to the Lord what thou hast sworn. ³⁴ But *I* say unto you, Do not swear at all; neither by the heaven, because it is [the] throne of God; ³⁵ nor by the earth, because it is [the] footstool of his feet; nor by Jerusalem, because it is [the] city of the great King. ³⁶ Neither shalt thou swear by thy head, because thou canst not make one hair white or black. ³⁷ But let your word be Yea, yea; Nay, nay; but what is more than these is from evil.