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Want to know what the Bible says about Oaths? Here are 177 Bible verses about Oaths 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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Jeremiah 11:5 NIV
Then I will fulfill the oath I swore to your ancestors, to give them a land flowing with milk and honey’ —the land you possess today.”
I answered, “Amen, Lord.”
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Romans 1:9 NIV
God, whom I serve in my spirit in preaching the gospel of his Son, is my witness how constantly I remember you
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Ecclesiastes 8:2 NIV
Obey the king’s command, I say, because you took an oath before God.
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Hebrews 3:11 NIV
So I declared on oath in my anger,
    ‘They shall never enter my rest.’
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Genesis 47:29 NIV
When the time drew near for Israel to die, he called for his son Joseph and said to him, “If I have found favor in your eyes, put your hand under my thigh and promise that you will show me kindness and faithfulness. Do not bury me in Egypt,
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1 Kings 8:31 NIV
“When anyone wrongs their neighbor and is required to take an oath and they come and swear the oath before your altar in this temple,
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Genesis 50:25 NIV
And Joseph made the Israelites swear an oath and said, “God will surely come to your aid, and then you must carry my bones up from this place.”
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Genesis 24:9 NIV
So the servant put his hand under the thigh of his master Abraham and swore an oath to him concerning this matter.
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1 Samuel 20:3 NIV
But David took an oath and said, “Your father knows very well that I have found favor in your eyes, and he has said to himself, ‘Jonathan must not know this or he will be grieved.’ Yet as surely as the Lord lives and as you live, there is only a step between me and death.”
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Matthew 5:33 NIV
“Again, you have heard that it was said to the people long ago, ‘Do not break your oath, but fulfill to the Lord the vows you have made.’
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