And you shall not swear unjustly by My name, and you shall not profane the holy name of your God: I am the Lord your God.

And the son of the Israelite woman named THE NAME and cursed; and they brought him to Moses. And his mother's name was Shelomith, daughter of Dibri, of the tribe of Dan.

And the Lord spoke to Moses, saying,

And speak to the sons of Israel, and you shall say to them, Whosoever shall curse God shall bear his sin.

You shall not take the name of the Lord your God in vain, for the Lord your God will certainly not acquit him that takes His name in vain.

Offer to God the sacrifice of praise; and pay your vows to the Most High.

But to the sinner God has said, Why do you declare My ordinances, and take up My covenant in your mouth?

lest I be filled and become false, and say, Who sees me? Or be poor and steal, and swear vainly by the name of God.

The Lord lives, with truth, in judgment and righteousness, then shall nations bless by him, and by him they shall praise God in Jerusalem.

"Again you have heard that it was said to the ancients, 'You shall not swear falsely, but you shall pay your oaths to the Lord.'

nor by the earth, for it is His footstool; nor by Jerusalem, for it is the city of the great King.

But let your word be 'Yes', 'yes,'; 'No,' 'no.' For whatever is more than these is from the evil [one].

Woe to you, blind guides, who say, 'Whoever swears by the temple, it is nothing; but whoever swears by the gold of the temple, is obligated.'

And, 'Whoever swears by the altar, it is nothing; but whoever swears by the gift that is on it, is obligated.'

Therefore he that swears by the altar, swears by it and by all the things on it.

And he that swears by heaven, swears by the throne of God and by Him who sits on it.

But Jesus kept silent. And the high priest answered and said to Him, "I adjure You by the living God: Tell us if You are the Christ, the Son of God!"

Jesus said to him, "You said [it]. Nevertheless, I say to you, from now [on], you will see the Son of Man sitting at the right hand of the Power, and coming on the clouds of heaven."

Moreover I call upon God as a witness against my soul, that in order to spare you, I came no more to Corinth.

For men indeed swear by the greater, and the oath for confirmation [is] an end of every dispute to them.

Thus God, wanting to show even more clearly to the heirs of the promise the unchangeableness of His counsel, guaranteed it by an oath,

But above all, my brothers, do not swear, neither by heaven nor the earth, nor any other oath. But let your "Yes," be "Yes," and your "No," "No," so that you may not fall into hypocrisy.

And now swear to me by the Lord God; since I dealt mercifully with you, so do you also deal mercifully with the house of my father:

And the men said to her, We are clear of this your oath.

This we will do: take them alive, and we will preserve them: so there shall not be wrath against us by reason of the oath which we swore to them.

And there was a famine in the days of David three years, year after year; and David sought the face of the Lord. And the Lord said, [There is] guilt upon Saul and his house because of his bloody murder, whereby he slew the Gibeonites.

So King David called the Gibeonites, and said to them (now the Gibeonites are not the children of Israel, but [are] of the remnant of the Amorite, and the children of Israel had sworn to them; but Saul sought to smite them in his zeal for the children of Israel and Judah).

But you shall by no means hold him guiltless, for you are a wise man, and will know what you shall do to him, and shall bring down his grey hairs with blood to the grave.