# Of The Swearing Of Oaths.

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For the confirmation of a cause which was just
and true in itself, the Old Testament fathers were
permitted to swear by the name of God. Deut.
6:13; Matt. 5:33.

But the Son of the living God, the King and Lawgiver
of the New Testament, whose command we
are bound, through a voice from God out of heaven,
to obey, has forbidden Christians all swearing, as
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does, likewise, the apostle James; therefore, the
swearing of oaths is forbidden to the believers of the
New Testament. Matt. 3:17; 17:5; 5:34; James
5:12.



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