Swearing Falsely
23 passages listed in Nave’s Topical Bible and Torrey’s New Topical Textbook. Verse text: Berean Standard Bible; links open in your translation.
17 sections
- Blessedness of Abstaining From
- False Witnesses Guilty of
- Forbidden
- Fraud often Leads To
- Hateful to God
- Jews
- Peter
- Saints Abstain From
- Saul
- Shimei
- The Wicked: Addicted To
- The Wicked: Plead Excuses For
- The Wicked: Shall be Cut off For
- The Wicked: Shall be Judged on Account of
- The Wicked: Shall Have a Curse Upon Their Houses For
- we should not Love
- Zedekiah
Blessedness of Abstaining From
- Psalm 24:4–5 He who has clean hands and a pure heart, who does not lift up his soul to an idol or swear deceitfully. …
False Witnesses Guilty of
- Deuteronomy 19:16 If a false witness testifies against someone, accusing him of a crime,
- Deuteronomy 19:18 The judges shall investigate thoroughly, and if the witness is proven to be a liar who has falsely accused his brother,
Forbidden
- Leviticus 19:12 You must not swear falsely by My name and so profane the name of your God. I am the LORD.
- Numbers 30:2 If a man makes a vow to the LORD or swears an oath to obligate himself by a pledge, he must not break his word; he must do everything he has promised.
- Matthew 5:33 Again, you have heard that it was said to the ancients, ‘Do not break your oath, but fulfill your vows to the Lord.’
Fraud often Leads To
- Leviticus 6:2–3 “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 …
Hateful to God
- Zechariah 8:17 do not plot evil in your hearts against your neighbor, and do not love to swear falsely, for I hate all these things,” declares the LORD.
Jews
- Ezekiel 16:59 For this is what the Lord GOD says: I will deal with you according to your deeds, since you have despised the oath by breaking the covenant.
Peter
- Matthew 26:72 And again he denied it with an oath: “I do not know the man!”
- Matthew 26:74 At that he began to curse and swear to them, “I do not know the man!” And immediately a rooster crowed.
Saints Abstain From
- Joshua 9:20 This is how we will treat them: We will let them live, so that no wrath will fall on us because of the oath we swore to them.”
- Psalm 15:4 who despises the vile but honors those who fear the LORD, who does not revise a costly oath,
Saul
- 1 Samuel 19:6 Saul listened to the voice of Jonathan and swore an oath: “As surely as the LORD lives, David will not be put to death.”
- 1 Samuel 19:10 Saul tried to pin him to the wall with his spear. But David eluded him and the spear struck the wall. And David fled and escaped that night.
Shimei
- 1 Kings 2:41–43 When Solomon was told that Shimei had gone from Jerusalem to Gath and had returned, …
The Wicked: Addicted To
- Jeremiah 5:2 Although they say, ‘As surely as the LORD lives,’ they are swearing falsely.”
- Hosea 10:4 They speak mere words; with false oaths they make covenants. So judgment springs up like poisonous weeds in the furrows of a field.
The Wicked: Plead Excuses For
- Jeremiah 7:9–10 Will you steal and murder, commit adultery and perjury, burn incense to Baal, and follow other gods that you have not known, …
The Wicked: Shall be Cut off For
- Zechariah 5:3 Then he told me, “This is the curse that is going out over the face of all the land, for according to one side of the scroll, every thief will be removed; and according to the other side, every perjurer will be removed.
The Wicked: Shall be Judged on Account of
- Malachi 3:5 “Then I will draw near to you for judgment. And I will be a swift witness against sorcerers and adulterers and perjurers, against oppressors of the widowed and fatherless, and against those who defraud laborers of their wages and …
The Wicked: Shall Have a Curse Upon Their Houses For
- Zechariah 5:4 I will send it out, declares the LORD of Hosts, and it will enter the house of the thief and the house of him who swears falsely by My name. It will remain inside his house and destroy it, down to its timbers and stones.”
we should not Love
- Zechariah 8:17 do not plot evil in your hearts against your neighbor, and do not love to swear falsely, for I hate all these things,” declares the LORD.
Zedekiah
- Ezekiel 17:13–19 He took a member of the royal family and made a covenant with him, putting him under oath. Then he carried away the leading men of the land, …
Related topics
PerjuryFalsehood of ShimeiTheft is an Abomination
Topics: Nave’s Topical Bible (1896) and Torrey’s New Topical Textbook (1897), public domain, via the Berean Bible topical index.