Ecclesiastes 5:6

Bible in Basic English (1941)

Because much talk comes from dreams and things of no purpose. But let the fear of God be in you.

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Referenced Verses

  • Mal 2:7 : 7 For it is right for the priest's lips to keep knowledge, and for men to be waiting for the law from his mouth: for he is the servant sent from the Lord of armies.
  • Mal 3:1 : 1 See, I am sending my servant, and he will make ready the way before me; and the Lord, whom you are looking for, will suddenly come to his Temple; and the angel of the agreement, in whom you have delight, see, he is coming, says the Lord of armies.
  • Acts 7:30-35 : 30 At the end of forty years, an angel came to him in the waste land of Sinai, in the flame of a burning thorn-tree. 31 And Moses, seeing it, was full of wonder, and when he came up to have a nearer view of it, the voice of the Lord came to him, saying, 32 I am the God of your fathers, the God of Abraham and of Isaac and of Jacob. And Moses, shaking with fear, kept his eyes from looking at it. 33 And the Lord said, Take off the shoes from your feet, for the place where you are is holy. 34 Truly, I have seen the sorrows of my people in Egypt, and their cries have come to my ears, and I have come down to make them free: and now, come, I will send you to Egypt. 35 This Moses, whom they would not have, saying, Who made you a ruler and a judge? him God sent to be a ruler and a saviour, by the hand of the angel whom he saw in the thorn-tree.
  • 1 Cor 3:13-15 : 13 Every man's work will be made clear in that day, because it will be tested by fire; and the fire itself will make clear the quality of every man's work. 14 If any man's work comes through the test, he will have a reward. 15 If the fire puts an end to any man's work, it will be his loss: but he will get salvation himself, though as by fire.
  • 1 Cor 11:10 : 10 For this reason it is right for the woman to have a sign of authority on her head, because of the angels.
  • 1 Tim 5:21 : 21 I give you orders before God and Christ Jesus and the angels of God's selection, to keep these orders without giving thought to one side more than another.
  • Heb 1:14 : 14 Are they not all helping spirits, who are sent out as servants to those whose heritage will be salvation?
  • Jas 1:26 : 26 If a man seems to have religion and has no control over his tongue but lets himself be tricked by what is false, this man's religion is of no value.
  • Jas 3:2 : 2 For we all go wrong in a number of things. If a man never makes a slip in his talk, then he is a complete man and able to keep all his body in control.
  • 2 John 1:8 : 8 Keep watch over yourselves, so that you do not make our work of no effect, but may get your full reward.
  • Gen 48:16 : 16 The angel who has been my saviour from all evil, send his blessing on these children: and let my name and the name of my fathers, Abraham and Isaac, be given to them; and let them become a great nation in the earth.
  • Lev 5:4-6 : 4 Or if anyone, without thought, takes an oath to do evil or to do good, whatever he says without thought, with an oath, having no knowledge of what he is doing; when it becomes clear to him, he will be responsible for any of these things. 5 And whoever is responsible for any such sin, let him make a statement openly of his wrongdoing; 6 And take to the Lord the offering for the wrong which he has done, a female from the flock, a lamb or a goat, for a sin-offering, and the priest will take away his sin.
  • Lev 27:9-9 : 9 And if it is a beast of which men make offerings to the Lord, whatever any man gives of such to the Lord will be holy. 10 It may not be changed in any way, a good given for a bad, or a bad for a good; if one beast is changed for another, the two will be holy.
  • Num 15:25 : 25 So the priest will make the people free from sin, and they will have forgiveness; for it was an error, and they have given their offering made by fire to the Lord, and their sin-offering before the Lord, on account of their error:
  • Eccl 5:1-2 : 1 Be not unwise with your mouth, and let not your heart be quick to say anything before God, because God is in heaven and you are on the earth--so let not the number of your words be great. 2 As a dream comes from much business, so the voice of a foolish man comes with words in great number.
  • Hos 12:4-5 : 4 In the body of his mother he took his brother by the foot, and in his strength he was fighting with God; 5 He had a fight with the angel and overcame him; he made request for grace to him with weeping; he came face to face with him in Beth-el and there his words came to him;
  • Hag 1:9-9 : 9 You were looking for much, and it came to little; and when you got it into your house, I took it away with a breath. Why? says the Lord of armies. Because of my house which is a waste, while every man takes care of the house which is his. 10 For this cause the heaven over you is kept from giving dew, and the earth from giving her fruit. 11 And by my order no rain came on the land or on the mountains or the grain or the wine or the oil or the produce of the earth or on men or cattle or on any work of man's hands.
  • Hag 2:14-17 : 14 Then Haggai said, So is this people and so is this nation before me, says the Lord; and so is every work of their hands; and the offering they give there is unclean. 15 And now, give thought, looking back from this day to the time before one stone was put on another in the Temple of the Lord: 16 How, when anyone came to a store of twenty measures, there were only ten: when anyone went to the wine-store to get fifty vessels full, there were only twenty. 17 And I sent burning and wasting and a rain of ice-drops on all the works of your hands; but still you were not turned to me, says the Lord.

Similar Verses (AI)

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  • Eccl 5:1-2
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    1 Be not unwise with your mouth, and let not your heart be quick to say anything before God, because God is in heaven and you are on the earth--so let not the number of your words be great.

    2 As a dream comes from much business, so the voice of a foolish man comes with words in great number.

  • Eccl 5:4-5
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    4 It is better not to take an oath than to take an oath and not keep it.

    5 Let not your mouth make your flesh do evil. And say not before the angel, It was an error. So that God may not be angry with your words and put an end to the work of your hands.

  • Job 15:13
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    13 So that you are turning your spirit against God, and letting such words go out of your mouth?

  • Eccl 5:7
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    7 If you see the poor under a cruel yoke, and law and right being violently overturned in a country, be not surprised, because one authority is keeping watch on another and there are higher than they.

  • Job 15:4-6
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    4 Truly, you make the fear of God without effect, so that the time of quiet worship before God is made less by your outcry.

    5 For your mouth is guided by your sin, and you have taken the tongue of the false for yourself.

    6 It is by your mouth, even yours, that you are judged to be in the wrong, and not by me; and your lips give witness against you.

  • Lev 5:4
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    4 Or if anyone, without thought, takes an oath to do evil or to do good, whatever he says without thought, with an oath, having no knowledge of what he is doing; when it becomes clear to him, he will be responsible for any of these things.

  • Prov 30:6
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    6 Make no addition to his words, or he will make clear your error, and you will be seen to be false.

  • Ps 50:19
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    19 You have given your mouth to evil, your tongue to words of deceit.

  • Eccl 7:21
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    21 Do not give ear to all the words which men say, for fear of hearing the curses of your servant.

  • Jer 25:6-7
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    6 Do not go after other gods to be their servants and to give them worship, and do not make me angry with the work of your hands, causing evil to yourselves.

    7 But you have not given ear to me, says the Lord; so that you have made me angry with the work of your hands, causing evil to yourselves.

  • Job 31:30
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    30 (For I did not let my mouth give way to sin, in putting a curse on his life;)

  • Prov 30:32
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    32 If you have done foolishly in lifting yourself up, or if you have had evil designs, put your hand over your mouth.

  • Ps 34:13
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    13 Keep your tongue from evil, and your lips from words of deceit.

  • Jas 5:12
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    12 But most of all, my brothers, do not take oaths, not by the heaven, or by the earth, or by any other thing: but let your Yes be Yes, and your No be No: so that you may not be judged.

  • Prov 24:18
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    18 For fear that the Lord may see it, and it may be evil in his eyes, and his wrath may be turned away from him.

  • Prov 30:10
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    10 Do not say evil of a servant to his master, or he will put a curse on you, and you will get into trouble.

  • Job 35:6
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    6 If you have done wrong, is he any the worse for it? and if your sins are great in number, what is it to him?

  • Eph 4:26
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    26 Be angry without doing wrong; let not the sun go down on your wrath;

  • Job 36:18
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    18 ...

  • Job 11:14
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    14 If you put far away the evil of your hands, and let no wrongdoing have a place in your tent;

  • Ps 37:8
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    8 Put an end to your wrath and be no longer bitter; do not give way to angry feeling which is a cause of sin.

  • Deut 5:11
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    11 You are not to make use of the name of the Lord your God for an evil purpose; whoever takes the Lord's name on his lips for an evil purpose will be judged as a sinner by the Lord.

  • Eccl 7:17
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    17 Be not evil overmuch, and be not foolish. Why come to your end before your time?

  • Ps 6:1
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    1 <To the chief music-maker on corded instruments, on the Sheminith. A Psalm. Of David.> O Lord, do not be bitter with me in your wrath; do not send punishment on me in the heat of your passion.

  • Job 27:4
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    4 Truly, there is no deceit in my lips, and my tongue does not say what is false.

  • Lev 6:3
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    3 And the priest is to put on his linen robes and his linen trousers, and take up what is over of the offering after it has been burned on the altar, and put it by the side of the altar.

  • Ps 39:1
    70%

    1 <To the chief music-maker. Of Jeduthun. A Psalm. Of David.> I said, I will give attention to my ways, so that my tongue may do no wrong; I will keep my mouth under control, while the sinner is before me.

  • Lev 5:1
    70%

    1 And if anyone does wrong by saying nothing when he is put under oath as a witness of something he has seen or had knowledge of, then he will be responsible:

  • Prov 6:2
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    2 You are taken as in a net by the words of your mouth, the sayings of your lips have overcome you.

  • Prov 27:2
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    2 Let another man give you praise, and not your mouth; one who is strange to you, and not your lips.

  • Prov 5:9
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    9 For fear that you may give your honour to others, and your wealth to strange men:

  • Deut 23:22-23
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    22 But if you take no oath, there will be no sin.

    23 Whatever your lips have said, see that you do it; for you gave your word freely to the Lord your God.

  • Exod 20:7
    70%

    7 You are not to make use of the name of the Lord your God for an evil purpose; whoever takes the Lord's name on his lips for an evil purpose will be judged a sinner by the Lord

  • Prov 10:19
    70%

    19 Where there is much talk there will be no end to sin, but he who keeps his mouth shut does wisely.

  • Matt 5:33
    69%

    33 Again, you have knowledge that it was said in old times, Do not take false oaths, but give effect to your oaths to the Lord:

  • Num 30:2
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    2 And Moses said to the heads of the tribes of the children of Israel, This is the order of the Lord.

  • Prov 24:28
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    28 Do not be a violent witness against your neighbour, or let your lips say what is false.

  • Matt 5:23
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    23 If then you are making an offering at the altar and there it comes to your mind that your brother has something against you,

  • Prov 21:23
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    23 He who keeps watch over his mouth and his tongue keeps his soul from troubles.

  • Matt 5:36
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    36 You may not take an oath by your head, because you are not able to make one hair white or black.

  • Job 11:5
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    5 But if only God would take up the word, opening his lips in argument with you;

  • Prov 4:24
    69%

    24 Put away from you an evil tongue, and let false lips be far from you.

  • 2 Chr 6:22
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    22 If a man does wrong to his neighbour and has to take an oath, and comes before your altar to take his oath in this house:

  • Matt 12:36
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    36 And I say to you that in the day when they are judged, men will have to give an account of every foolish word they have said.