Bible Verses About Keeping Promises
Ranked by the OpenBible.info topical community
These are the Bible verses most often cited for keeping promises, ranked by the OpenBible.info topical community across 8,750 votes, led by Numbers 30:2. Each passage links to its verse page or the interactive map; scripture is the King James Version.
Top verses about Keeping Promises
Numbers 30:2764 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.
Psalms 89:34517 votes
My covenant will I not break, nor alter the thing that is gone out of my lips.
Ecclesiastes 5:4-5435 votes
When thou vowest a vow unto God, defer not to pay it; for he hath no pleasure in fools: pay that which thou hast vowed.
2 Peter 3:9404 votes
The Lord is not slack concerning his promise, as some men count slackness; but is longsuffering to us-ward, not willing that any should perish, but that all should come to repentance.
Matthew 5:37360 votes
But let your communication be, Yea, yea; Nay, nay: for whatsoever is more than these cometh of evil.
James 5:12261 votes
But above all things, my brethren, swear not, neither by heaven, neither by the earth, neither by any other oath: but let your yea be yea; and your nay, nay; lest ye fall into condemnation.
Numbers 23:19226 votes
God is not a man, that he should lie; neither the son of man, that he should repent: hath he said, and shall he not do it? or hath he spoken, and shall he not make it good?
Joshua 21:45187 votes
There failed not ought of any good thing which the Lord had spoken unto the house of Israel; all came to pass.
Matthew 5:33-37182 votes
Again, ye have heard that it hath been said by them of old time, Thou shalt not forswear thyself, but shalt perform unto the Lord thine oaths:
Matthew 5:33173 votes
Again, ye have heard that it hath been said by them of old time, Thou shalt not forswear thyself, but shalt perform unto the Lord thine oaths:
Joshua 23:14171 votes
And, behold, this day I am going the way of all the earth: and ye know in all your hearts and in all your souls, that not one thing hath failed of all the good things which the Lord your God spake concerning you; all are come to pass unto you, and not one thing hath failed thereof.
2 Corinthians 1:20163 votes
For all the promises of God in him are yea, and in him Amen, unto the glory of God by us.
Hebrews 10:23163 votes
Let us hold fast the profession of our faith without wavering; (for he is faithful that promised;)
Deuteronomy 23:21-23152 votes
When thou shalt vow a vow unto the Lord thy God, thou shalt not slack to pay it: for the Lord thy God will surely require it of thee; and it would be sin in thee.
Numbers 30:1-2138 votes
And Moses spake unto the heads of the tribes concerning the children of Israel, saying, This is the thing which the Lord hath commanded.
Romans 10:9115 votes
That if thou shalt confess with thy mouth the Lord Jesus, and shalt believe in thine heart that God hath raised him from the dead, thou shalt be saved.
Leviticus 5:4102 votes
Or if a soul swear, pronouncing with his lips to do evil, or to do good, whatsoever it be that a man shall pronounce with an oath, and it be hid from him; when he knoweth of it, then he shall be guilty in one of these.
Matthew 7:799 votes
Ask, and it shall be given you; seek, and ye shall find; knock, and it shall be opened unto you:
Psalms 15:497 votes
In whose eyes a vile person is contemned; but he honoureth them that fear the Lord. He that sweareth to his own hurt, and changeth not.
Proverbs 20:2596 votes
It is a snare to the man who devoureth that which is holy, and after vows to make enquiry.
1 John 1:995 votes
If we confess our sins, he is faithful and just to forgive us our sins, and to cleanse us from all unrighteousness.
1 Kings 8:5692 votes
Blessed be the Lord, that hath given rest unto his people Israel, according to all that he promised: there hath not failed one word of all his good promise, which he promised by the hand of Moses his servant.
Isaiah 41:1087 votes
Fear thou not; for I am with thee: be not dismayed; for I am thy God: I will strengthen thee; yea, I will help thee; yea, I will uphold thee with the right hand of my righteousness.
Psalms 91:1-1685 votes
He that dwelleth in the secret place of the most High shall abide under the shadow of the Almighty.
Jeremiah 29:1182 votes
For I know the thoughts that I think toward you, saith the Lord, thoughts of peace, and not of evil, to give you an expected end.
What does the Bible say about keeping promises?
Readers most often cite Numbers 30:2 on the subject of keeping promises. Across 8,750 votes, 25 passages are commonly cited for this topic, including Psalms 89:34, Ecclesiastes 5:4-5, 2 Peter 3:9. This page lists all 25 in ranked order, quoted in the King James Version, with each linked to its cross-references.