Quotes about Oaths
Fear the LORD your God, serve Him only, and take your oaths in His name.
— Deuteronomy 6:13
You are to fear the LORD your God and serve Him. Hold fast to Him and take your oaths in His name.
— Deuteronomy 10:20
Hariph, Anathoth, Nebai,
— Nehemiah 10:19
the vows that my lips promised and my mouth spoke in my distress.
— Psalm 66:14
They speak mere words; with false oaths they make covenants. So judgment springs up like poisonous weeds in the furrows of a field.
— Hosea 10:4
Those who swear by the guilt of Samaria and say, ‘As surely as your god lives, O Dan,’ or, ‘As surely as the way of Beersheba lives’—they will fall, never to rise again.”
— Amos 8:14
The king was grieved, but because of his oaths and his guests, he ordered that her wish be granted
— Matthew 14:9
The king was consumed with sorrow, but because of his oaths and his guests, he did not want to refuse her.
— Mark 6:26
The very word 'secrecy' is repugnant in a free and open society; and we are as a people inherently and historically opposed to secret societies, to secret oaths, and to secret proceedings
— John F. Kennedy
"Our armies swore terribly in Flanders," cried my uncle Toby—"but nothing to this."
— Laurence Sterne
What heavenly power lends an ear To a breaker of oaths, a deceiver?
— Euripides
God will not take you to task for vain words in your oaths, but He will take you to task for what your hearts have earned.
— Anonymous