Bible Verses About Keeping Your Word
Ranked by the OpenBible.info topical community
These are the Bible verses most often cited for keeping your word, ranked by the OpenBible.info topical community across 109,765 votes, led by Matthew 5:37. Each passage links to its verse page or the interactive map; scripture is the King James Version.
Top verses about Keeping Your Word
Matthew 5:372,441 votes
But let your communication be, Yea, yea; Nay, nay: for whatsoever is more than these cometh of evil.
Ecclesiastes 5:4-72,357 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.
1 John 2:52,263 votes
But whoso keepeth his word, in him verily is the love of God perfected: hereby know we that we are in him.
Matthew 5:332,184 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:
Numbers 30:1-22,086 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.
Matthew 5:33-372,039 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:
Deuteronomy 23:232,011 votes
That which is gone out of thy lips thou shalt keep and perform; even a freewill offering, according as thou hast vowed unto the Lord thy God, which thou hast promised with thy mouth.
James 5:121,949 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.
Leviticus 5:4-51,741 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.
Psalms 119:111,714 votes
Thy word have I hid in mine heart, that I might not sin against thee.
Psalms 15:1-41,634 votes
Lord, who shall abide in thy tabernacle? who shall dwell in thy holy hill?
Proverbs 6:1-31,611 votes
My son, if thou be surety for thy friend, if thou hast stricken thy hand with a stranger,
Numbers 32:241,610 votes
Build you cities for your little ones, and folds for your sheep; and do that which hath proceeded out of your mouth.
Psalms 119:91,582 votes
Wherewithal shall a young man cleanse his way? by taking heed thereto according to thy word.
Numbers 30:21,564 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.
John 1:11,552 votes
In the beginning was the Word, and the Word was with God, and the Word was God.
Ecclesiastes 5:21,514 votes
Be not rash with thy mouth, and let not thine heart be hasty to utter any thing before God: for God is in heaven, and thou upon earth: therefore let thy words be few.
Psalms 119:1051,480 votes
Thy word is a lamp unto my feet, and a light unto my path.
Hebrews 4:121,466 votes
For the word of God is quick, and powerful, and sharper than any twoedged sword, piercing even to the dividing asunder of soul and spirit, and of the joints and marrow, and is a discerner of the thoughts and intents of the heart.
Matthew 4:41,464 votes
But he answered and said, It is written, Man shall not live by bread alone, but by every word that proceedeth out of the mouth of God.
Acts 5:1-101,455 votes
But a certain man named Ananias, with Sapphira his wife, sold a possession,
Proverbs 20:251,400 votes
It is a snare to the man who devoureth that which is holy, and after vows to make enquiry.
Luke 1:371,289 votes
For with God nothing shall be impossible.
Proverbs 11:31,267 votes
The integrity of the upright shall guide them: but the perverseness of transgressors shall destroy them.
Revelation 1:11,233 votes
The Revelation of Jesus Christ, which God gave unto him, to shew unto his servants things which must shortly come to pass; and he sent and signified it by his angel unto his servant John:
What does the Bible say about keeping your word?
Readers most often cite Matthew 5:37 on the subject of keeping your word. Across 109,765 votes, 25 passages are commonly cited for this topic, including Ecclesiastes 5:4-7, 1 John 2:5, Matthew 5:33. This page lists all 25 in ranked order, quoted in the King James Version, with each linked to its cross-references.