Matthew 5:36

Matthew 5:36
You may not take an oath by your head, because you are not able to make one hair white or black.

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Deuteronomy 6:13
Let the fear of the Lord your God be in your hearts, and be his servants, taking your oaths by his name.

Zechariah 8:17
Let no one have any evil thought in his heart against his neighbour; and have no love for false oaths: for all these things are hated by me, says the Lord.

Malachi 3:5
And I will come near to you for judging; I will quickly be a witness against the wonder-workers, against those who have been untrue in married life, against those who take false oaths; against those who keep back from the servant his payment, and who are hard on the widow and the child without a father, who do not give his rights to the man from a strange country, and have no fear of me, says the Lord of armies.

Matthew 23:22
And he who takes an oath by heaven, takes it by the seat of God, and by him who is seated on it.

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Job 3:23
To a man whose way is veiled, and who is shut in by God?

Job 13:27
And you put chains on my feet, watching all my ways, and making a limit for my steps;

Job 19:8
My way is walled up by him so that I may not go by: he has made my roads dark.

Psalms 90:10
The measure of our life is seventy years; and if through strength it may be eighty years, its pride is only trouble and sorrow, for it comes to an end and we are quickly gone.

Psalms 139:5
I am shut in by you on every side, and you have put your hand on me.

Ecclesiastes 8:8
No man has authority over the wind, to keep the wind; or is ruler over the day of his death. In war no man's time is free, and evil will not keep the sinner safe.

Lamentations 3:7
He has put a wall round me, so that I am not able to go out; he has made great the weight of my chain.

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Luke 12:25
And which of you by taking thought is able to make himself any taller?

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