What does the Bible say about contracts?

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• Galatians 3:15

  Brothers, I speak like men. Though it is only a man's covenant, yet when it has been confirmed, no one makes it void, or adds to it.

• Matthew 5:37

  But let your 'Yes' be 'Yes' and your 'No' be 'no.' Whatever is more than these is of the evil one.

• Proverbs 22:26

  Don't you be one of those who strike hands, Of those who are collateral for debts.

• Numbers 30:2

  When a man vows a vow to Yahweh, or swears an oath to bind his soul with a bond, he shall not break his word; he shall do according to all that proceeds out of his mouth.

• Hebrews 6:17

  In this way God, being determined to show more abundantly to the heirs of the promise the immutability of his counsel, interposed with an oath;

• Leviticus 6:2

  "If anyone sins, and commits a trespass against Yahweh, and deals falsely with his neighbor in a matter of deposit, or of bargain, or of robbery, or has oppressed his neighbor,

• Proverbs 6:16-19

  [16] There are six things which Yahweh hates; Yes, seven which are an abomination to him: [17] Haughty eyes, a lying tongue, Hands that shed innocent blood; [18] A heart that devises wicked schemes, Feet that are swift in running to mischief, [19] A false witness who utters lies, And he who sows discord among brothers.

• Joshua 9:15

  Joshua made peace with them, and made a covenant with them, to let them live: and the princes of the congregation swore to them.

• Hebrews 6:16

  For men indeed swear by a greater one, and in every dispute of theirs the oath is final for confirmation.

• Genesis 31:44-54

  [44] Now come, let us make a covenant, you and I; and let it be for a witness between me and you." [45] Jacob took a stone, and set it up for a pillar. [46] Jacob said to his relatives, "Gather stones." They took stones, and made a heap. They ate there by the heap. [47] Laban called it Jegar Sahadutha, but Jacob called it Galeed. [48] Laban said, "This heap is witness between me and you this day." Therefore it was named Galeed [49] and Mizpah, for he said, "Yahweh watch between me and you, when we are absent one from another. [50] If you will afflict my daughters, and if you will take wives besides my daughters, no man is with us; behold, God is witness between me and you." [51] Laban said to Jacob, "See this heap, and see the pillar, which I have set between me and you. [52] May this heap be a witness, and the pillar be a witness, that I will not pass over this heap to you, and that you will not pass over this heap and this pillar to me, for harm. [53] The God of Abraham, and the God of Nahor, the God of their father, judge between us." Then Jacob swore by the fear of his father, Isaac. [54] Jacob offered a sacrifice in the mountain, and called his relatives to eat bread. They ate bread, and stayed all night in the mountain.

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