Proverbs 20:25

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It is a trap for someone to dedicate something rashly and only later to reconsider their vows.

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  • Lev 5:15 : 15 When someone commits a sin by unintentionally misusing the holy things of the LORD, they must bring their guilt offering to the LORD: a ram without blemish from the flock, according to your valuation in silver shekels, based on the shekel of the sanctuary, as a guilt offering.
  • Lev 22:10-15 : 10 No outsider is to eat the holy food. A guest of the priest or a hired servant must not eat the holy food. 11 However, if a priest buys someone with his money as property, that person may eat from the priest's food, and those born in his household may also eat his food. 12 If a priest's daughter marries someone who is not a priest, she must not eat the sacred contributions from the holy things. 13 But if a priest's daughter becomes a widow or is divorced, has no children, and returns to her father's house as she was in her youth, she may eat her father's food again. But no outsider may eat of it. 14 If anyone eats a sacred offering unintentionally, they must add a fifth of its value to it and give it to the priest as compensation for the sacred thing. 15 The priests must not allow the sacred offerings of the people of Israel, which they present to the LORD, to be defiled.
  • Lev 27:9-9 : 9 If it is an animal that can be offered as an offering to the LORD, whatever is given to the LORD shall be holy. 10 It must not be exchanged or substituted, whether good for bad or bad for good. If it is exchanged, both the animal and its substitute shall become holy.
  • Lev 27:30-31 : 30 A tithe of everything from the land, whether grain from the soil or fruit from the trees, belongs to the LORD; it is holy to the LORD. 31 If anyone wishes to redeem any part of their tithe, they must add a fifth of its value to it.
  • Num 30:2-9 : 2 Moses spoke to the leaders of the tribes of Israel, saying, 'This is what the LORD has commanded:' 3 If a man makes a vow to the LORD or swears an oath to bind himself by a promise, he must not break his word; he must do everything he said. 4 If a young woman living in her father’s household makes a vow to the LORD or obligates herself by a pledge, 5 and her father hears about her vow or pledge but says nothing to her, all her vows and every binding obligation she has made will stand. 6 But if her father rules against her when he hears about it, none of her vows or pledges by which she has obligated herself will stand. The LORD will forgive her because her father has objected to it. 7 If she marries after making a vow or rashly uttering a binding obligation by which she binds herself, 8 and her husband hears about it but says nothing to her, her vows or obligations she has made will stand. 9 But if her husband voids them when he hears about them, nothing she has vowed or promised by binding obligation will stand; the LORD will forgive her. 10 A widow or a divorced woman is bound by all her vows and the obligations she places on herself. 11 If a woman living in her husband's household makes a vow or takes an oath to bind herself by a pledge, 12 But if her husband hears about her vow and says nothing to her, he has approved all her vows and every obligation she has taken upon herself. They will stand. 13 But if her husband annuls them on the day he hears of them, then none of the words from her lips concerning her vows or the obligations she has taken upon herself will stand. Her husband has annulled them, and the LORD will forgive her. 14 Any vow or binding oath to deny herself can be confirmed or annulled by her husband. 15 But if her husband says nothing to her from one day to the next, he confirms all her vows or binding obligations that are upon her. He confirms them by saying nothing to her when he hears of them. 16 If he annuls them after he hears of them, then he must bear the consequences of her wrongdoing.
  • Prov 18:7 : 7 The mouth of a fool is his ruin, and his lips are a snare for his soul.
  • Eccl 5:4-6 : 4 It is better not to make a vow than to make one and not fulfill it. 5 Do not let your mouth cause you to sin, and do not tell God’s messenger that it was a mistake. Why should God be angry at your words and destroy the work of your hands? 6 Much dreaming and many words are meaningless. Therefore, fear God.
  • Mal 3:8-9 : 8 Will a man rob God? Yet you are robbing me. But you ask, 'How have we robbed you?' In tithes and offerings. 9 You are under a curse—your whole nation—because you are robbing me. 10 Bring the whole tithe into the storehouse, that there may be food in my house. Test me in this, says the Lord of Hosts, and see if I will not open the floodgates of heaven and pour out so much blessing that there will not be room enough to store it.
  • Matt 5:33 : 33 Again, you have heard that it was said to those of old, 'Do not break your oaths, but fulfill your vows to the Lord.'

Similar Verses (AI)

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  • Eccl 5:4-6
    3 verses
    73%

    4It is better not to make a vow than to make one and not fulfill it.

    5Do not let your mouth cause you to sin, and do not tell God’s messenger that it was a mistake. Why should God be angry at your words and destroy the work of your hands?

    6Much dreaming and many words are meaningless. Therefore, fear God.

  • Num 30:2
    72%

    2Moses spoke to the leaders of the tribes of Israel, saying, 'This is what the LORD has commanded:'

  • Prov 22:25-26
    2 verses
    72%

    25Or you may learn their ways and set a trap for your soul.

    26Do not be one who shakes hands in pledge, or who puts up security for debts.

  • Lev 5:4
    71%

    4Or if someone makes a rash oath to do something evil or good, whatever they may rashly utter with an oath, and it is hidden from them, but they later realize it, they are guilty in one of these cases.

  • Lev 22:14-15
    2 verses
    71%

    14If anyone eats a sacred offering unintentionally, they must add a fifth of its value to it and give it to the priest as compensation for the sacred thing.

    15The priests must not allow the sacred offerings of the people of Israel, which they present to the LORD, to be defiled.

  • Prov 20:16-17
    2 verses
    71%

    16Take a garment as security from one who guarantees a stranger's debt; hold it in pledge if it is for a foreign woman.

    17Food gained by deceit is sweet to a person, but afterward their mouth is full of gravel.

  • Prov 20:24
    70%

    24A person's steps are directed by the Lord; how then can anyone understand their own way?

  • Deut 23:21-23
    3 verses
    70%

    21You may charge interest to a foreigner, but not to a fellow Israelite, so that the LORD your God may bless you in all your undertakings in the land you are about to enter and possess.

    22When you make a vow to the LORD your God, do not delay to fulfill it, for the LORD your God will surely demand it of you, and you will be guilty of sin.

    23But if you refrain from making a vow, you will not be guilty.

  • Prov 28:20-21
    2 verses
    70%

    20A faithful man will abound in blessings, but one in a hurry to get rich will not go unpunished.

    21To show partiality is not good, yet for a piece of bread, a man will transgress.

  • Prov 29:25
    69%

    25The fear of man brings a snare, but whoever trusts in the LORD will be kept safe.

  • Isa 29:21
    69%

    21Those who cause humanity to sin with a word, who set traps for the one who rebukes in the gate, and who twist justice by making the righteous nothing, will be judged.

  • Eccl 5:1-2
    2 verses
    69%

    1Do not be hasty with your mouth, and do not let your heart rush to speak anything before God, for God is in heaven and you are on earth. Therefore, let your words be few.

    2Dreams come from too much activity, and a fool’s voice is known by many words.

  • Exod 34:12
    69%

    12Be careful not to make a covenant with the inhabitants of the land where you are going, or they will become a snare in your midst.

  • Prov 20:2
    69%

    2The roar of a king is like the growl of a young lion; whoever provokes him to anger risks his life.

  • Prov 6:2
    69%

    2you have been trapped by the words of your mouth, caught by the words of your mouth.

  • Prov 11:15
    69%

    15Whoever puts up security for a stranger will suffer harm, but whoever hates striking hands in pledge is secure.

  • Prov 19:2-3
    2 verses
    68%

    2Enthusiasm without knowledge is not good, and one who hurries makes wrong choices.

    3A man’s foolishness twists his way, and his heart rages against the LORD.

  • Prov 20:21
    68%

    21An inheritance gained hastily at the beginning will not be blessed at the end.

  • Prov 5:21
    68%

    21For a man's ways are before the eyes of the Lord, and He examines all his paths.

  • Job 18:10
    68%

    10His rope lies hidden in the ground, and his trap is set along the path.

  • Prov 22:5
    68%

    5Thorns and snares are in the path of the crooked; whoever guards their soul will stay far from them.

  • Prov 20:14
    68%

    14'It’s no good, it’s no good!' says the buyer; then he goes away and boasts about the deal.

  • Prov 1:17
    68%

    17Surely in vain is the net spread in sight of any bird,

  • Prov 27:13
    68%

    13Take the garment of one who puts up security for a stranger; hold it in pledge if he does it for an outsider.

  • Exod 20:7
    68%

    7You shall not take the name of the LORD your God in vain, for the LORD will not hold anyone guiltless who misuses His name.

  • Prov 25:27
    68%

    27It is not good to eat too much honey, nor is it honorable to seek one’s own glory.

  • Prov 17:18
    68%

    18A person who lacks sense shakes hands in pledge and puts up security for their neighbor.

  • Prov 28:10
    67%

    10Whoever leads the upright along an evil path will fall into his own pit, but the blameless will inherit what is good.

  • Lev 6:3
    67%

    3The priest shall put on his linen garment and wear linen undergarments on his body. He shall remove the ashes of the burnt offering that the fire has consumed on the altar and place them beside the altar.

  • Prov 6:26
    67%

    26For a prostitute reduces you to a loaf of bread, but the wife of another man hunts a precious life.

  • Lev 5:19
    67%

    19It is a guilt offering; they have been guilty before the LORD.

  • Prov 20:26
    67%

    26A wise king winnows out the wicked; he drives the threshing wheel over them.

  • Matt 23:20
    67%

    20Therefore, whoever swears by the altar swears by it and everything on it.

  • Deut 12:25
    67%

    25Do not eat it, so that it may go well with you and your children after you, because you will be doing what is right in the eyes of the Lord.

  • Num 30:10
    67%

    10A widow or a divorced woman is bound by all her vows and the obligations she places on herself.

  • Matt 23:18
    67%

    18And you say, 'If anyone swears by the altar, it means nothing; but if anyone swears by the gift on it, he is obligated.'

  • Prov 1:19
    67%

    19Such are the ways of everyone who gains unjust profit; it takes away the life of its owners.

  • Job 22:15
    67%

    15Will you keep to the ancient path that wicked men have walked?

  • Eccl 8:2
    67%

    2I advise you to obey the king's command and stay true to your oath made before God.

  • Ezek 21:23
    67%

    23Then the word of the LORD came to me, saying: