Bible Cross References
swearing
Hosea 6:7
"But as soon as they entered the land at Adam, they broke the covenant I had made with them.
2 Kings 17:3
Emperor Shalmaneser of Assyria made war against him; Hoshea surrendered to Shalmaneser and paid him tribute every year.
2 Kings 17:4
But one year Hoshea sent messengers to So, king of Egypt, asking for his help, and stopped paying the annual tribute to Assyria. When Shalmaneser learned of this, he had Hoshea arrested and put in prison.
Ezekiel 17:13-19
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He took one of the king's family, made a treaty with him, and made him swear to be loyal. He took important men as hostages
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to keep the nation from rising again and to make sure that the treaty would be kept.
15
But the king of Judah rebelled and sent agents to Egypt to get horses and a large army. Will he succeed? Can he get away with that? He cannot break the treaty and go unpunished!
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"As surely as I am the living God," says the Sovereign LORD, "this king will die in Babylonia because he broke his oath and the treaty he had made with the king of Babylonia, who put him on the throne.
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Even the powerful army of the king of Egypt will not be able to help him fight when the Babylonians build earthworks and dig trenches in order to kill many people.
18
He broke his oath and the treaty he had made. He did all these things, and now he will not escape."
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The Sovereign LORD says, "As surely as I am the living God, I will punish him for breaking the treaty which he swore in my name to keep.
Romans 1:31
they have no conscience; they do not keep their promises, and they show no kindness or pity for others.
2 Timothy 3:3
they will be unkind, merciless, slanderers, violent, and fierce; they will hate the good;
thus
Deuteronomy 29:18
Make sure that no man, woman, family, or tribe standing here today turns from the LORD our God to worship the gods of other nations. This would be like a root that grows to be a bitter and poisonous plant.
Isaiah 5:7
Israel is the vineyard of the LORD Almighty; the people of Judah are the vines he planted. He expected them to do what was good, but instead they committed murder. He expected them to do what was right, but their victims cried out for justice.
Isaiah 59:13-15
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We have rebelled against you, rejected you, and refused to follow you. We have oppressed others and turned away from you. Our thoughts are false; our words are lies.
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Justice is driven away, and right cannot come near. Truth stumbles in the public square, and honesty finds no place there.
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There is so little honesty that those who stop doing evil find themselves the victims of crime." The LORD has seen this, and he is displeased that there is no justice.
Amos 5:7
You are doomed, you that twist justice and cheat people out of their rights!
Amos 6:12
Do horses gallop on rocks? Does anyone plow the sea with oxen? Yet you have turned justice into poison, and right into wrong.
Acts 8:23
For I see that you are full of bitter envy and are a prisoner of sin."
Hebrews 12:15
Guard against turning back from the grace of God. Let no one become like a bitter plant that grows up and causes many troubles with its poison.
Revelation 8:10
Then the third angel blew his trumpet. A large star, burning like a torch, dropped from the sky and fell on a third of the rivers and on the springs of water.
Revelation 8:11
(The name of the star is "Bitterness.") A third of the water turned bitter, and many people died from drinking the water, because it had turned bitter.