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Want to know what the Bible says about Contracts? Here are 45 Bible verses about Contracts from the Old and New Testaments of the Holy Bible, New International Version (NIV), sorted from the most relevant to the least relevant.

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Galatians 3:15 NIV
Brothers and sisters, let me take an example from everyday life. Just as no one can set aside or add to a human covenant that has been duly established, so it is in this case.
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Proverbs 22:26 NIV
Do not be one who shakes hands in pledge
    or puts up security for debts;
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Matthew 5:37 NIV
All you need to say is simply ‘Yes’ or ‘No’; anything beyond this comes from the evil one.
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Hebrews 6:17 NIV
Because God wanted to make the unchanging nature of his purpose very clear to the heirs of what was promised, he confirmed it with an oath.
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Numbers 30:2 NIV
When a man makes a vow to the Lord or takes an oath to obligate himself by a pledge, he must not break his word but must do everything he said.
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Leviticus 6:2 NIV
“If anyone sins and is unfaithful to the Lord by deceiving a neighbor about something entrusted to them or left in their care or about something stolen, or if they cheat their neighbor,
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Proverbs 6:16-19 NIV
16 There are six things the Lord hates,
    seven that are detestable to him:
17         haughty eyes,
    a lying tongue,
    hands that shed innocent blood,
18         a heart that devises wicked schemes,
    feet that are quick to rush into evil,
19         a false witness who pours out lies
    and a person who stirs up conflict in the community.
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Joshua 9:15 NIV
Then Joshua made a treaty of peace with them to let them live, and the leaders of the assembly ratified it by oath.
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Colossians 2:14 NIV
having canceled the charge of our legal indebtedness, which stood against us and condemned us; he has taken it away, nailing it to the cross.
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Hebrews 6:16 NIV
People swear by someone greater than themselves, and the oath confirms what is said and puts an end to all argument.
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Colossians 3:9-10 NIV
9 Do not lie to each other, since you have taken off your old self with its practices 10 and have put on the new self, which is being renewed in knowledge in the image of its Creator.
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Ezekiel 17:18 NIV
He despised the oath by breaking the covenant. Because he had given his hand in pledge and yet did all these things, he shall not escape.
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Proverbs 17:18 NIV
One who has no sense shakes hands in pledge
    and puts up security for a neighbor.
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1 Kings 5:9-11 NIV
9 My men will haul them down from Lebanon to the Mediterranean Sea , and I will float them as rafts by sea to the place you specify. There I will separate them and you can take them away. And you are to grant my wish by providing food for my royal household.”
10 In this way Hiram kept Solomon supplied with all the cedar and juniper logs he wanted, 11 and Solomon gave Hiram twenty thousand cors of wheat as food for his household, in addition to twenty thousand baths of pressed olive oil. Solomon continued to do this for Hiram year after year.
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Numbers 18:19 NIV
Whatever is set aside from the holy offerings the Israelites present to the Lord I give to you and your sons and daughters as your perpetual share. It is an everlasting covenant of salt before the Lord for both you and your offspring.”
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Joshua 9:20 NIV
This is what we will do to them: We will let them live, so that God’s wrath will not fall on us for breaking the oath we swore to them.”
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1 Kings 9:11 NIV
King Solomon gave twenty towns in Galilee to Hiram king of Tyre, because Hiram had supplied him with all the cedar and juniper and gold he wanted.
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Genesis 26:31 NIV
Early the next morning the men swore an oath to each other. Then Isaac sent them on their way, and they went away peacefully.
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Leviticus 6:4-7 NIV
4 when they sin in any of these ways and realize their guilt, they must return what they have stolen or taken by extortion, or what was entrusted to them, or the lost property they found, 5 or whatever it was they swore falsely about. They must make restitution in full, add a fifth of the value to it and give it all to the owner on the day they present their guilt offering. 6 And as a penalty they must bring to the priest, that is, to the Lord, their guilt offering, a ram from the flock, one without defect and of the proper value. 7 In this way the priest will make atonement for them before the Lord, and they will be forgiven for any of the things they did that made them guilty.”
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Proverbs 6:1 NIV
My son, if you have put up security for your neighbor,
    if you have shaken hands in pledge for a stranger,
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