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Oath: Unclassified Scriptures Relating To Exodus 20:7

You shall not take the name of the LORD your God in vain, for the LORD will not leave anyone unpunished who takes His name in vain.

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Oath: Unclassified Scriptures Relating To Exodus 22:10, 11

If a man gives a donkey, an ox, a sheep, or any other animal to be cared for by his neighbor, but it dies or is injured or stolen while no one is watching, / an oath before the LORD shall be made between the parties to determine whether or not the man has taken his neighbor’s property. The owner must accept the oath and require no restitution.

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Oath: Unclassified Scriptures Relating To Exodus 23:1

“You shall not spread a false report. Do not join the wicked by being a malicious witness.

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Oath: Unclassified Scriptures Relating To Leviticus 6:2–5

“If someone sins and acts unfaithfully against the LORD by deceiving his neighbor in regard to a deposit or security entrusted to him or stolen, or if he extorts his neighbor / or finds lost property and lies about it and swears falsely, or if he commits any such sin that a man might commit— / once he has sinned and becomes guilty, he must return what he has stolen or taken by extortion, or the deposit entrusted to him, or the lost property he found,

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Oath: Unclassified Scriptures Relating To Leviticus 19:12

You must not swear falsely by My name and so profane the name of your God. I am the LORD.

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Oath: Unclassified Scriptures Relating To Numbers 5:19–24

And he is to put the woman under oath and say to her, ‘If no other man has slept with you and you have not gone astray and become defiled while under your husband’s authority, may you be immune to this bitter water that brings a curse. / But if you have gone astray while under your husband’s authority and have defiled yourself and lain carnally with a man other than your husband’— / and the priest shall have the woman swear under the oath of the curse—‘then may the LORD make you an attested curse among your people by making your thigh shrivel and your belly swell.

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Oath: Unclassified Scriptures Relating To Deuteronomy 5:11

You shall not take the name of the LORD your God in vain, for the LORD will not leave anyone unpunished who takes His name in vain.

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Oath: Unclassified Scriptures Relating To Deuteronomy 6:13

Fear the LORD your God, serve Him only, and take your oaths in His name.

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Oath: Unclassified Scriptures Relating To Deuteronomy 10:20

You are to fear the LORD your God and serve Him. Hold fast to Him and take your oaths in His name.

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Oath: Unclassified Scriptures Relating To 1 Kings 8:31, 32

When a man sins against his neighbor and is required to take an oath, and he comes to take an oath before Your altar in this temple, / then may You hear from heaven and act. May You judge Your servants, condemning the wicked man by bringing down on his own head what he has done, and justifying the righteous man by rewarding him according to his righteousness.

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Oath: Unclassified Scriptures Relating To Psalm 15:1, 2, 4

A Psalm of David. O LORD, who may abide in Your tent? Who may dwell on Your holy mountain? / He who walks with integrity and practices righteousness, who speaks the truth from his heart, / who despises the vile but honors those who fear the LORD, who does not revise a costly oath,

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Oath: Unclassified Scriptures Relating To Ecclesiastes 8:2

Keep the king’s command, I say, because of your oath before God.

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Oath: Unclassified Scriptures Relating To Isaiah 48:1

“Listen to this, O house of Jacob, you who are called by the name of Israel, who have descended from the line of Judah, who swear by the name of the LORD, who invoke the God of Israel—but not in truth or righteousness—

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Oath: Unclassified Scriptures Relating To Jeremiah 4:2

and if you can swear, ‘As surely as the LORD lives,’ in truth, in justice, and in righteousness, then the nations will be blessed by Him, and in Him they will glory.”

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Oath: Unclassified Scriptures Relating To Jeremiah 5:2, 7

Although they say, ‘As surely as the LORD lives,’ they are swearing falsely.” / “Why should I forgive you? Your children have forsaken Me and sworn by gods that are not gods. I satisfied their needs, yet they committed adultery and assembled at the houses of prostitutes.

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Oath: Unclassified Scriptures Relating To Jeremiah 7:8, 9

But look, you keep trusting in deceptive words to no avail. / Will you steal and murder, commit adultery and perjury, burn incense to Baal, and follow other gods that you have not known,

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Oath: Unclassified Scriptures Relating To Jeremiah 12:16

And if they will diligently learn the ways of My people and swear by My name, saying, ‘As surely as the LORD lives’—just as they once taught My people to swear by Baal—then they will be established among My people.

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Oath: Unclassified Scriptures Relating To Daniel 9:11

All Israel has transgressed Your law and turned away, refusing to obey Your voice; so the oath and the curse written in the Law of Moses the servant of God has been poured out on us, because we have sinned against You.

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Oath: Unclassified Scriptures Relating To Daniel 12:7

And the man dressed in linen, who was above the waters of the river, raised his right hand and his left hand toward heaven, and I heard him swear by Him who lives forever, saying, “It will be for a time, and times, and half a time. When the power of the holy people has finally been shattered, all these things will be completed.”

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Oath: Unclassified Scriptures Relating To Hosea 4:15

Though you prostitute yourself, O Israel, may Judah avoid such guilt! Do not journey to Gilgal, do not go up to Beth-aven, and do not swear on oath, ‘As surely as the LORD lives!’

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Oath: Unclassified Scriptures Relating To Matthew 5:33–37

Again, you have heard that it was said to the ancients, ‘Do not break your oath, but fulfill your vows to the Lord.’ / But I tell you not to swear at all: either by heaven, for it is God’s throne; / or by the earth, for it is His footstool; or by Jerusalem, for it is the city of the great King.

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Oath: Unclassified Scriptures Relating To Matthew 14:3–12

Now Herod had arrested John and bound him and put him in prison on account of Herodias, his brother Philip’s wife, / because John had been telling him, “It is not lawful for you to have her.” / Although Herod wanted to kill John, he was afraid of the people, because they regarded John as a prophet.

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Oath: Unclassified Scriptures Relating To Matthew 23:18–22

And you say, ‘If anyone swears by the altar, it means nothing; but if anyone swears by the gift on it, he is bound by his oath.’ / You blind men! Which is greater: the gift, or the altar that makes it sacred? / So then, he who swears by the altar swears by it and by everything on it.

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Oath: Unclassified Scriptures Relating To Matthew 26:63

But Jesus remained silent. Then the high priest said to Him, “I charge You under oath by the living God: Tell us if You are the Christ, the Son of God.”

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Oath: Unclassified Scriptures Relating To Mark 6:26

The king was consumed with sorrow, but because of his oaths and his guests, he did not want to refuse her.

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Oath: Unclassified Scriptures Relating To Acts 23:12–14

When daylight came, the Jews formed a conspiracy and bound themselves with an oath not to eat or drink until they had killed Paul. / More than forty of them were involved in this plot. / They went to the chief priests and elders and said, “We have bound ourselves with a solemn oath not to eat anything until we have killed Paul.

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Oath: Unclassified Scriptures Relating To 2 Corinthians 1:23

I call God as my witness that it was in order to spare you that I did not return to Corinth.

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Oath: Unclassified Scriptures Relating To Galatians 1:20

I assure you before God that what I am writing to you is no lie.

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Oath: Unclassified Scriptures Relating To Hebrews 6:16

Men swear by someone greater than themselves, and their oath serves as a confirmation to end all argument.

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Oath: Unclassified Scriptures Relating To James 5:12

Above all, my brothers, do not swear, not by heaven or earth or by any other oath. Simply let your “Yes” be yes, and your “No,” no, so that you will not fall under judgment.

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Oath: Unclassified Scriptures Relating To Revelation 10:5, 6

Then the angel I had seen standing on the sea and on the land lifted up his right hand to heaven. / And he swore by Him who lives forever and ever, who created heaven and everything in it, the earth and everything in it, and the sea and everything in it: “There will be no more delay!

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