Bible Verses About Contracts
Ranked by the OpenBible.info topical community
These are the Bible verses most often cited for contracts, ranked by the OpenBible.info topical community across 964 votes, led by Galatians 3:15. Each passage links to its verse page or the interactive map; scripture is the King James Version.
Top verses about Contracts
Galatians 3:15100 votes
Brethren, I speak after the manner of men; Though it be but a man’s covenant, yet if it be confirmed, no man disannulleth, or addeth thereto.
Proverbs 22:2655 votes
Be not thou one of them that strike hands, or of them that are sureties for debts.
Matthew 5:3755 votes
But let your communication be, Yea, yea; Nay, nay: for whatsoever is more than these cometh of evil.
Numbers 30:251 votes
If a man vow a vow unto the Lord, or swear an oath to bind his soul with a bond; he shall not break his word, he shall do according to all that proceedeth out of his mouth.
Hebrews 6:1743 votes
Wherein God, willing more abundantly to shew unto the heirs of promise the immutability of his counsel, confirmed it by an oath:
Leviticus 6:241 votes
If a soul sin, and commit a trespass against the Lord, and lie unto his neighbour in that which was delivered him to keep, or in fellowship, or in a thing taken away by violence, or hath deceived his neighbour;
Proverbs 6:16-1933 votes
These six things doth the Lord hate: yea, seven are an abomination unto him:
Joshua 9:1531 votes
And Joshua made peace with them, and made a league with them, to let them live: and the princes of the congregation sware unto them.
Colossians 2:1431 votes
Blotting out the handwriting of ordinances that was against us, which was contrary to us, and took it out of the way, nailing it to his cross;
Genesis 31:44-5430 votes
Now therefore come thou, let us make a covenant, I and thou; and let it be for a witness between me and thee.
Hebrews 6:1630 votes
For men verily swear by the greater: and an oath for confirmation is to them an end of all strife.
Jeremiah 32:10-1528 votes
And I subscribed the evidence, and sealed it, and took witnesses, and weighed him the money in the balances.
Colossians 3:9-1024 votes
Lie not one to another, seeing that ye have put off the old man with his deeds;
Romans 12:17-2123 votes
Recompense to no man evil for evil. Provide things honest in the sight of all men.
Ezekiel 17:1821 votes
Seeing he despised the oath by breaking the covenant, when, lo, he had given his hand, and hath done all these things, he shall not escape.
Numbers 18:1919 votes
All the heave offerings of the holy things, which the children of Israel offer unto the Lord, have I given thee, and thy sons and thy daughters with thee, by a statute for ever: it is a covenant of salt for ever before the Lord unto thee and to thy seed with thee.
Proverbs 6:118 votes
My son, if thou be surety for thy friend, if thou hast stricken thy hand with a stranger,
Genesis 26:3117 votes
And they rose up betimes in the morning, and sware one to another: and Isaac sent them away, and they departed from him in peace.
Joshua 9:2017 votes
This we will do to them; we will even let them live, lest wrath be upon us, because of the oath which we sware unto them.
1 Kings 5:9-1117 votes
My servants shall bring them down from Lebanon unto the sea: and I will convey them by sea in floats unto the place that thou shalt appoint me, and will cause them to be discharged there, and thou shalt receive them: and thou shalt accomplish my desire, in giving food for my household.
Leviticus 6:4-716 votes
Then it shall be, because he hath sinned, and is guilty, that he shall restore that which he took violently away, or the thing which he hath deceitfully gotten, or that which was delivered him to keep, or the lost thing which he found,
1 Kings 9:1116 votes
(Now Hiram the king of Tyre had furnished Solomon with cedar trees and fir trees, and with gold, according to all his desire,) that then king Solomon gave Hiram twenty cities in the land of Galilee.
Proverbs 17:1816 votes
A man void of understanding striketh hands, and becometh surety in the presence of his friend.
Genesis 31:715 votes
And your father hath deceived me, and changed my wages ten times; but God suffered him not to hurt me.
Matthew 20:1-1615 votes
For the kingdom of heaven is like unto a man that is an householder, which went out early in the morning to hire labourers into his vineyard.
What does the Bible say about contracts?
Readers most often cite Galatians 3:15 on the subject of contracts. Across 964 votes, 25 passages are commonly cited for this topic, including Proverbs 22:26, Matthew 5:37, Numbers 30:2. This page lists all 25 in ranked order, quoted in the King James Version, with each linked to its cross-references.