Quotes about Oath
Do not let them persuade you, because more than forty men are waiting to ambush him. They have bound themselves with an oath not to eat or drink until they have killed him; they are ready now, awaiting your consent.”
- Acts 23:21
So I swore on oath in My anger, ‘They shall never enter My rest.’”
- Hebrews 3:11
Now we who have believed enter that rest. As for the others, it is just as God has said: “So I swore on oath in My anger, ‘They shall never enter My rest.’” And yet His works have been finished since the foundation of the world.
- Hebrews 4:3
When God made His promise to Abraham, since He had no one greater to swear by, He swore by Himself,
- Hebrews 6:13
Men swear by someone greater than themselves, and their oath serves as a confirmation to end all argument.
- Hebrews 6:16
So when God wanted to make the unchanging nature of His purpose very clear to the heirs of the promise, He guaranteed it with an oath.
- Hebrews 6:17
And none of this happened without an oath. For others became priests without an oath,
- Hebrews 7:20
but Jesus became a priest with an oath by the One who said to Him: “The Lord has sworn and will not change His mind: ‘You are a priest forever.’”
- Hebrews 7:21
Because of this oath, Jesus has become the guarantee of a better covenant.
- Hebrews 7:22
For the law appoints as high priests men who are weak; but the oath, which came after the law, appointed the Son, who has been made perfect forever.
- Hebrews 7:28
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.
- James 5:12
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!
- Revelation 10:6