Bible Cross References
the curse
Deuteronomy 11:28
but a curse, if you disobey these commands and turn away to worship other gods that you have never worshiped before.
Deuteronomy 11:29
When the LORD brings you into the land that you are going to occupy, you are to proclaim the blessing from Mount Gerizim and the curse from Mount Ebal.
Deuteronomy 27:15-26
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" 'God's curse on anyone who makes an idol of stone, wood, or metal and secretly worships it; the LORD hates idolatry.' "And all the people will answer, 'Amen!'
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" 'God's curse on anyone who dishonors his father or mother.' "And all the people will answer, 'Amen!'
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" 'God's curse on anyone who moves a neighbor's property line.' "And all the people will answer, 'Amen!'
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" 'God's curse on anyone who leads a blind person in the wrong direction.' "And all the people will answer, 'Amen!'
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" 'God's curse on anyone who deprives foreigners, orphans, and widows of their rights.' "And all the people will answer, 'Amen!'
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" 'God's curse on anyone who disgraces his father by having intercourse with any of his father's wives.' "And all the people will answer, 'Amen!'
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" 'God's curse on anyone who has sexual relations with an animal.' "And all the people will answer, 'Amen!'
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" 'God's curse on anyone who has intercourse with his sister or half sister.' "And all the people will answer, 'Amen!'
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" 'God's curse on anyone who has intercourse with his mother-in-law.' "And all the people will answer, 'Amen!'
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" 'God's curse on anyone who secretly commits murder.' "And all the people will answer, 'Amen!'
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" 'God's curse on anyone who accepts money to murder an innocent person.' "And all the people will answer, 'Amen!'
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" 'God's curse on anyone who does not obey all of God's laws and teachings.' "And all the people will answer, 'Amen!'
Deuteronomy 28:15-68
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"But if you disobey the LORD your God and do not faithfully keep all his commands and laws that I am giving you today, all these evil things will happen to you:
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"The LORD will curse your towns and your fields.
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"The LORD will curse your grain crops and the food you prepare from them.
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"The LORD will curse you by giving you only a few children, poor crops, and few cattle and sheep.
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"The LORD will curse everything you do.
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"If you do evil and reject the LORD, he will bring on you disaster, confusion, and trouble in everything you do, until you are quickly and completely destroyed.
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He will send disease after disease on you until there is not one of you left in the land that you are about to occupy.
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The LORD will strike you with infectious diseases, with swelling and fever; he will send drought and scorching winds to destroy your crops. These disasters will be with you until you die.
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No rain will fall, and your ground will become as hard as iron.
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Instead of rain, the LORD will send down duststorms and sandstorms until you are destroyed.
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"The LORD will give your enemies victory over you. You will attack them from one direction, but you will run from them in all directions, and all the people on earth will be terrified when they see what happens to you.
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When you die, birds and wild animals will come and eat your bodies, and there will be no one to scare them off.
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The LORD will send boils on you, as he did on the Egyptians. He will make your bodies break out with sores. You will be covered with scabs, and you will itch, but there will be no cure.
28
The LORD will make you lose your mind; he will strike you with blindness and confusion.
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You will grope about in broad daylight like someone blind, and you will not be able to find your way. You will not prosper in anything you do. You will be constantly oppressed and robbed, and there will be no one to help you.
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"You will be engaged to a young woman---but someone else will marry her. You will build a house---but never live in it. You will plant a vineyard---but never eat its grapes.
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Your cattle will be butchered before your very eyes, but you will not eat any of the meat. Your donkeys will be dragged away while you look on, and they will not be given back to you. Your sheep will be given to your enemies, and there will be no one to help you.
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Your sons and daughters will be given as slaves to foreigners while you look on. Every day you will strain your eyes, looking in vain for your children to return.
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A foreign nation will take all the crops that you have worked so hard to grow, while you receive nothing but constant oppression and harsh treatment.
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Your sufferings will make you lose your mind.
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The LORD will cover your legs with incurable, painful sores; boils will cover you from head to foot.
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"The LORD will take you and your king away to a foreign land, where neither you nor your ancestors ever lived before; there you will serve gods made of wood and stone.
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In the countries to which the LORD will scatter you, the people will be shocked at what has happened to you; they will make fun of you and ridicule you.
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"You will plant plenty of seed, but reap only a small harvest, because the locusts will eat your crops.
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You will plant vineyards and take care of them, but you will not gather their grapes or drink wine from them, because worms will eat the vines.
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Olive trees will grow everywhere in your land, but you will not have any olive oil, because the olives will drop off.
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You will have sons and daughters, but you will lose them, because they will be taken away as prisoners of war.
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All your trees and crops will be devoured by insects.
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"Foreigners who live in your land will gain more and more power, while you gradually lose yours.
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They will have money to lend you, but you will have none to lend them. In the end they will be your rulers.
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"All these disasters will come on you, and they will be with you until you are destroyed, because you did not obey the LORD your God and keep all the laws that he gave you.
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They will be the evidence of God's judgment on you and your descendants forever.
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The LORD blessed you in every way, but you would not serve him with glad and joyful hearts.
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So then, you will serve the enemies that the LORD is going to send against you. You will be hungry, thirsty, and naked---in need of everything. The LORD will oppress you harshly until you are destroyed.
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The LORD will bring against you a nation from the ends of the earth, a nation whose language you do not know. They will swoop down on you like an eagle.
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They will be ruthless and show no mercy to anyone, young or old.
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They will eat your livestock and your crops, and you will starve to death. They will not leave you any grain, wine, olive oil, cattle, or sheep; and you will die.
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They will attack every town in the land that the LORD your God is giving you, and the high, fortified walls in which you trust will fall.
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"When your enemies are besieging your towns, you will become so desperate for food that you will even eat the children that the LORD your God has given you.
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Even the most refined man of noble birth will become so desperate during the siege that he will eat some of his own children because he has no other food. He will not even give any to his brother or to the wife he loves or to any of his children who are left.
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Even the most refined woman of noble birth, so rich that she has never had to walk anywhere, will behave in the same way. When the enemy besieges her town, she will become so desperate for food that she will secretly eat her newborn child and the afterbirth as well. She will not share them with the husband she loves or with any of her children.
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"If you do not obey faithfully all of God's teachings that are written in this book and if you do not honor the wonderful and awesome name of the LORD your God,
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he will send on you and on your descendants incurable diseases and horrible epidemics that can never be stopped.
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He will bring on you once again all the dreadful diseases you experienced in Egypt, and you will never recover.
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He will also send all kinds of diseases and epidemics that are not mentioned in this book of God's laws and teachings, and you will be destroyed.
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Although you become as numerous as the stars in the sky, only a few of you will survive, because you did not obey the LORD your God.
63
Just as the LORD took delight in making you prosper and in making you increase in number, so he will take delight in destroying you and in bringing ruin on you. You will be uprooted from the land that you are about to occupy.
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"The LORD will scatter you among all the nations, from one end of the earth to the other, and there you will serve gods made of wood and stone, gods that neither you nor your ancestors have ever worshiped before.
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You will find no peace anywhere, no place to call your own; the LORD will overwhelm you with anxiety, hopelessness, and despair.
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Your life will always be in danger. Day and night you will be filled with terror, and you will live in constant fear of death.
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Your hearts will pound with fear at everything you see. Every morning you will wish for evening; every evening you will wish for morning.
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The LORD will send you back to Egypt in ships, even though he said that you would never have to go there again. There you will try to sell yourselves to your enemies as slaves, but no one will want to buy you."
Deuteronomy 29:19-28
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Make sure that there is no one here today who hears these solemn demands and yet convinces himself that all will be well with him, even if he stubbornly goes his own way. That would destroy all of you, good and evil alike.
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The LORD will not forgive such a man. Instead, the LORD's burning anger will flame up against him, and all the disasters written in this book will fall on him until the LORD has destroyed him completely.
21
The LORD will make an example of him before all the tribes of Israel and will bring disaster on him in accordance with all the curses listed in the covenant that is written in this book of the LORD's teachings.
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"In future generations your descendants and foreigners from distant lands will see the disasters and sufferings that the LORD has brought on your land.
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The fields will be a barren waste, covered with sulfur and salt; nothing will be planted, and not even weeds will grow there. Your land will be like the cities of Sodom and Gomorrah, of Admah and Zeboiim, which the LORD destroyed when he was furiously angry.
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Then the whole world will ask, 'Why did the LORD do this to their land? What was the reason for his fierce anger?'
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And the answer will be, 'It is because the LORD's people broke the covenant they had made with him, the God of their ancestors, when he brought them out of Egypt.
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They served other gods that they had never worshiped before, gods that the LORD had forbidden them to worship.
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And so the LORD became angry with his people and brought on their land all the disasters written in this book.
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The LORD became furiously angry, and in his great anger he uprooted them from their land and threw them into a foreign land, and there they are today.'
Psalm 109:17-20
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He loved to curse---may he be cursed! He hated to give blessings---may no one bless him!
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He cursed as naturally as he dressed himself; may his own curses soak into his body like water and into his bones like oil!
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May they cover him like clothes and always be around him like a belt!
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LORD, punish my enemies in that way--- those who say such evil things against me!
Proverbs 3:33
The LORD puts a curse on the homes of the wicked, but blesses the homes of the righteous.
Isaiah 24:6
So God has pronounced a curse on the earth. Its people are paying for what they have done. Fewer and fewer remain alive.
Isaiah 43:28
and your rulers profaned my sanctuary. So I brought destruction on Israel; I let my own people be insulted."
Jeremiah 26:6
If you continue to disobey, then I will do to this Temple what I did to Shiloh, and all the nations of the world will use the name of this city as a curse."
Daniel 9:11
All Israel broke your laws and refused to listen to what you said. We sinned against you, and so you brought on us the curses that are written in the Law of Moses, your servant.
Malachi 3:9
A curse is on all of you because the whole nation is cheating me.
Malachi 4:6
He will bring fathers and children together again; otherwise I would have to come and destroy your country."
Matthew 25:41
"Then he will say to those on his left, 'Away from me, you that are under God's curse! Away to the eternal fire which has been prepared for the Devil and his angels!
Galatians 3:10-13
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Those who depend on obeying the Law live under a curse. For the scripture says, "Whoever does not always obey everything that is written in the book of the Law is under God's curse!"
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Now, it is clear that no one is put right with God by means of the Law, because the scripture says, "Only the person who is put right with God through faith shall live."
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But the Law has nothing to do with faith. Instead, as the scripture says, "Whoever does everything the Law requires will live."
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But by becoming a curse for us Christ has redeemed us from the curse that the Law brings; for the scripture says, "Anyone who is hanged on a tree is under God's curse."
Hebrews 6:6-8
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And then they abandoned their faith! It is impossible to bring them back to repent again, because they are again crucifying the Son of God and exposing him to public shame.
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God blesses the soil which drinks in the rain that often falls on it and which grows plants that are useful to those for whom it is cultivated.
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But if it grows thorns and weeds, it is worth nothing; it is in danger of being cursed by God and will be destroyed by fire.
Revelation 21:8
But cowards, traitors, perverts, murderers, the immoral, those who practice magic, those who worship idols, and all liars---the place for them is the lake burning with fire and sulfur, which is the second death."
Revelation 22:15
But outside the city are the perverts and those who practice magic, the immoral and the murderers, those who worship idols and those who are liars both in words and deeds.
the face
Luke 21:35
like a trap. For it will come upon all people everywhere on earth.
stealeth
Exodus 20:15
Proverbs 29:24
A thief 's partner is his own worst enemy. He will be punished if he tells the truth in court, and God will curse him if he doesn't.
Proverbs 30:9
If I have more, I might say that I do not need you. But if I am poor, I might steal and bring disgrace on my God.
Jeremiah 7:9
You steal, murder, commit adultery, tell lies under oath, offer sacrifices to Baal, and worship gods that you had not known before.
Hosea 4:2
They make promises and break them; they lie, murder, steal, and commit adultery. Crimes increase, and there is one murder after another.
Malachi 3:8-10
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I ask you, is it right for a person to cheat God? Of course not, yet you are cheating me. 'How?' you ask. In the matter of tithes and offerings.
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A curse is on all of you because the whole nation is cheating me.
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Bring the full amount of your tithes to the Temple, so that there will be plenty of food there. Put me to the test and you will see that I will open the windows of heaven and pour out on you in abundance all kinds of good things.
1 Corinthians 6:7-9
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The very fact that you have legal disputes among yourselves shows that you have failed completely. Would it not be better for you to be wronged? Would it not be better for you to be robbed?
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Instead, you yourselves wrong one another and rob one another, even other believers!
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Surely you know that the wicked will not possess God's Kingdom. Do not fool yourselves; people who are immoral or who worship idols or are adulterers or homosexual perverts
Ephesians 4:28
If you used to rob, you must stop robbing and start working, in order to earn an honest living for yourself and to be able to help the poor.
James 5:4
You have not paid any wages to those who work in your fields. Listen to their complaints! The cries of those who gather in your crops have reached the ears of God, the Lord Almighty.
sweareth
Zechariah 5:4
The LORD Almighty says that he will send this curse out, and it will enter the house of every thief and the house of everyone who tells lies under oath. It will remain in their houses and leave them in ruins."
Zechariah 8:17
Do not plan ways of harming one another. Do not give false testimony under oath. I hate lying, injustice, and violence."
Leviticus 19:12
Do not make a promise in my name if you do not intend to keep it; that brings disgrace on my name. I am the LORD your God.
Isaiah 48:1
Listen to this, people of Israel, you that are descended from Judah: You swear by the name of the LORD and claim to worship the God of Israel--- but you don't mean a word you say.
Jeremiah 5:2
Even though you claim to worship the LORD, you do not mean what you say.
Jeremiah 23:10
The land is full of people unfaithful to the LORD; they live wicked lives and misuse their power. Because of the LORD's curse the land mourns and the pastures are dry.
Ezekiel 17:13-16
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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.
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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!
16
"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.
Malachi 3:5
The LORD Almighty says, "I will appear among you to judge, and I will testify at once against those who practice magic, against adulterers, against those who give false testimony, those who cheat employees out of their wages, and those who take advantage of widows, orphans, and foreigners---against all who do not respect me.
Matthew 5:33-37
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"You have also heard that people were told in the past, 'Do not break your promise, but do what you have vowed to the Lord to do.'
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But now I tell you: do not use any vow when you make a promise. Do not swear by heaven, for it is God's throne;
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nor by earth, for it is the resting place for his feet; nor by Jerusalem, for it is the city of the great King.
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Do not even swear by your head, because you cannot make a single hair white or black.
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Just say 'Yes' or 'No'---anything else you say comes from the Evil One.
Matthew 23:16-22
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"How terrible for you, blind guides! You teach, 'If someone swears by the Temple, he isn't bound by his vow; but if he swears by the gold in the Temple, he is bound.'
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Blind fools! Which is more important, the gold or the Temple which makes the gold holy?
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You also teach, 'If someone swears by the altar, he isn't bound by his vow; but if he swears by the gift on the altar, he is bound.'
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How blind you are! Which is the more important, the gift or the altar which makes the gift holy?
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So then, when a person swears by the altar, he is swearing by it and by all the gifts on it;
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and when he swears by the Temple, he is swearing by it and by God, who lives there;
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and when someone swears by heaven, he is swearing by God's throne and by him who sits on it.
1 Timothy 1:9
It must be remembered, of course, that laws are made, not for good people, but for lawbreakers and criminals, for the godless and sinful, for those who are not religious or spiritual, for those who kill their fathers or mothers, for murderers,
James 5:12
Above all, my friends, do not use an oath when you make a promise. Do not swear by heaven or by earth or by anything else. Say only "Yes" when you mean yes, and "No" when you mean no, and then you will not come under God's judgment.