Bible Cross References
swearing
Isaiah 24:5
The earth is also defiled under its inhabitants; because they have transgressed the laws, changed the ordinance, and have broken the perpetual covenant.
Isaiah 48:1
Hear this, O house of Jacob, who are called by the name of Israel, and have come forth out of the waters of Judah; who swear by the name of Jehovah and make mention of the God of Israel (but not in truth nor in righteousness;
Isaiah 59:2-8
2
But your iniquities have separated between you and your God, and your sins have hidden His face from you, that He will not hear.
3
For your hands are defiled with blood, and your fingers with iniquity; your lips have spoken lies, your tongue has uttered perverseness.
4
No one calls for justice, nor does anyone plead for truth; they trust in vanity and speak lies. They conceive mischief and bring forth iniquity.
5
They hatch vipers' eggs and weave the spider's web; he who eats their eggs dies, and that which is crushed breaks out into a viper.
6
Their webs shall not become garments, nor shall they cover themselves with their works; their works are works of iniquity, and the act of violence is in their hands.
7
Their feet run to evil, and they make haste to shed innocent blood; their thoughts are thoughts of iniquity; devastation and destruction are in their paths.
8
The way of peace they have not known, and there is no justice in their paths. They have made crooked paths for themselves; whoever goes in them shall not know peace.
Isaiah 59:12-15
12
For our transgressions are multiplied before You, and our sins testify against us. For our transgressions are with us; and as for our iniquities, we know them;
13
in transgressing and lying against Jehovah, and backsliding from our God, speaking oppression and revolt, conceiving and uttering from the heart words of falsehood.
14
And justice is driven back, and righteousness stands afar off; for truth has fallen in the street, and uprightness cannot enter.
15
Yea, truth fails; and he who departs from evil makes himself a prey. And Jehovah saw it, and it displeased Him that there was no justice.
Jeremiah 5:1
Run to and fro through the streets of Jerusalem, and see now, and know, and seek in her open places, if you can find a man, if there is one who does justice, who seeks the truth; and I will pardon her.
Jeremiah 5:2
And though they say, As Jehovah lives; surely they swear falsely.
Jeremiah 5:7-9
7
How shall I pardon you for this? Your children have forsaken Me, and have sworn by those that are not gods. When I adjured them, then they committed adultery, and gathered themselves by troops in a harlot's house.
8
They were like lusty, well-fed stallions in the morning; every one neighing after his neighbor's wife.
9
Shall I not punish for these things? says Jehovah. And shall not My soul be avenged on such a nation as this?
Jeremiah 5:26-9
Jeremiah 5:27-9
Jeremiah 6:7
As a fountain keeps fresh its waters, so she keeps fresh her evil; violence and devastation is heard in her; before Me continually are sickness and wounds.
Jeremiah 7:6-10
6
if you do not oppress the sojourner, the fatherless, and the widow, and do not shed innocent blood in this place, nor walk after other gods to your hurt;
7
then I will cause you to dwell in this place, in the land that I gave to your fathers, forever and ever.
8
Behold, you trust in lying words that are of no benefit.
9
Will you steal, murder, and commit adultery, and swear falsely, and burn incense to Baal, and walk after other gods whom you do not know;
10
and then come and stand before Me in this house which is called by My name, and say, We are delivered to do all those abominations?
Jeremiah 9:2-8
2
Oh that I had in the wilderness a lodging place for travelers, that I might leave my people and go away from them! For they are all adulterers, an assembly of treacherous men.
3
And they bend their tongues like their bow for lies. But they are not mighty for the truth on the earth; for they proceed from evil to evil, and they do not know Me, says Jehovah.
4
Everyone beware of his neighbor, and do not trust any brother! For every brother will supplant and assail his neighbor, and will walk with slanderers.
5
And everyone will deceive his neighbor and will not speak the truth; they have taught their tongue to speak lies, and they weary themselves to commit iniquity.
6
Your dwelling is in the midst of deceit; through deceit they refuse to know Me, says Jehovah.
7
Therefore thus says Jehovah of Hosts, Behold, I will refine them and try them; for how else shall I deal with the daughter of My people?
8
Their tongue is a slaughtering arrow; it speaks deceit; one speaks peaceably to his neighbor with his mouth, but in his heart he lies in wait.
Jeremiah 23:10-14
10
For the land is full of adulterers. Yes, because of cursing the land mourns; the pleasant places of the wilderness are dried up, and their course is evil, and their strength is not right.
11
For both prophet and priest are corrupt; yes, in My house I have found their evil, says Jehovah.
12
So their way shall be to them as slippery ways in the darkness; they shall be driven on, and fall in them; for I will bring evil upon them, even the year of their punishment, says Jehovah.
13
And I have seen folly in the prophets of Samaria; they prophesied by Baal and caused My people Israel to go astray.
14
I have also seen in the prophets of Jerusalem a horrible thing; they commit adultery and walk in falsehood. They also strengthen the hands of evildoers, so that no one turns back from his evil; they are all of them like Sodom to Me, and its inhabitants like Gomorrah.
Ezekiel 22:2-13
2
And you, son of man, will you judge, will you judge the bloody city? Yes, show her all her abominations!
3
Then say, Thus says the Lord Jehovah: The city sheds blood in her midst, that her time may come. And she makes idols within herself to defile herself.
4
You are guilty by the blood which you have shed, and have defiled yourself with the idols which you have made. You have caused your days to draw near, and have come to your years. Therefore I have made you a reproach to the nations, and a mockery to all lands.
5
Those who are near and those far from you will mock you as defiled of name and full of confusion.
6
Behold, the rulers of Israel: each one was in you by his power to shed blood in you.
7
In you they have made light of father and mother; in your midst they have oppressed the sojourner; in you they have mistreated the orphan and the widow.
8
You have despised My holy things and profaned My Sabbaths.
9
In you are men who slander to cause bloodshed; in you they eat on the mountains; in your midst they commit lewdness.
10
In you men uncover the nakedness of their fathers; in you they humble women during their menstrual impurity.
11
One commits abomination with his neighbor's wife; another lewdly defiles his daughter-in-law; and another in you humbles his sister, his father's daughter.
12
In you they take bribes to shed blood; you take usury and increase; you have made profit from your neighbors by extortion, and have forgotten Me, declares the Lord Jehovah.
13
Behold, therefore, I have clapped My hands at the unjust gain which you have made, and at the blood which has been in your midst.
Ezekiel 22:25-30
25
The conspiracy of her prophets in her midst is like a roaring lion tearing the prey; they have devoured souls; they have taken treasure and precious things; they have made many widows in her midst.
26
Her priests have violated My Law and defiled My holy things; they have not divided between the holy and profane, nor have they declared between the unclean and the clean; and they have hidden their eyes from My Sabbaths, so that I am profaned among them.
27
Her rulers in her midst are like wolves tearing the prey, to shed blood, to destroy souls, and to get dishonest gain.
28
Her prophets plastered them with whitewash, seeing vain visions, and divining lies to them, saying, Thus says the Lord Jehovah, when Jehovah has not spoken.
29
The people of the land have used oppressions, committed robbery, and mistreated the poor and needy; and they wrongfully oppress the sojourner.
30
So I sought for a man among them who would close up the wall, and stand in the gap before Me on behalf of the land, that I should not destroy it; but I found no one.
Micah 2:1-3
1
Woe to those who devise wickedness and do evil on their beds! In the morning light they practice it, because it is in the power of their hand.
2
And they covet and seize fields and houses, and carry them away. And they oppress a man and his household, even a man and his inheritance.
3
Therefore thus says Jehovah: Behold, I am devising evil against this family, from which you shall not remove your necks; nor shall you walk haughtily, for this is an evil time.
Micah 3:2
You who hate good and love evil, who tear their skin off them, and their flesh from off their bones;
Micah 3:9
Now hear this, you heads of the house of Jacob, and rulers of the house of Israel, you who abhor justice and pervert all equity,
Micah 6:10
Are there yet in the house of the wicked the treasures of wickedness, and the abominable short ephah?
Micah 7:2
The good man has perished from the earth, and there is no one upright among mankind. All of them lie in wait for blood; each one hunts his brother with a net.
Zephaniah 3:1
Woe to her that is filthy and polluted, to the oppressing city!
Zechariah 5:3
And he said to me, This is the curse that goes forth over the face of the whole earth. For from now on everyone who steals shall be purged out according to it; and everyone who swears from now on shall be purged out according to it.
Zechariah 7:9
Thus says Jehovah of Hosts, saying, Judge true justice, and show goodness and compassion, everyone to his brother.
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Hosea 5:2
And revolters are deep in slaughter, though I chasten all of them.
Hosea 6:9
And as bands of robbers lie in wait for a man, so the company of priests murder in the way, getting an early start at it; for they plot wickedness.
Lamentations 4:13
For the sins of her prophets and the iniquities of her priests, shedding the blood of the just in her midst,
Matthew 23:35
in order that on you may come all the righteous blood poured out upon the earth, from the blood of righteous Abel to the blood of Zechariah, son of Berechiah, whom you murdered between the temple and the altar.
Acts 7:52
Which of the prophets did your fathers not persecute? And they, who received the Law by the command of angels and did not keep it, killed those who foretold the coming of the Just One,
1 Thessalonians 2:15
who killed both the Lord Jesus and their own prophets, and have driven us out; and they do not please God and are contrary to all men,
Revelation 17:6
And I saw the woman, drunk with the blood of the saints and with the blood of the witnesses of Jesus. And when I saw her, I marveled with great amazement.