Ecclesiastes 5:6

Authorized King James Version (1611)

Suffer not thy mouth to cause thy flesh to sin; neither say thou before the angel, that it [was] an error: wherefore should God be angry at thy voice, and destroy the work of thine hands?

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  • Mal 2:7 : 7 For the priest's lips should keep knowledge, and they should seek the law at his mouth: for he [is] the messenger of the LORD of hosts.
  • Mal 3:1 : 1 ¶ Behold, I will send my messenger, and he shall prepare the way before me: and the Lord, whom ye seek, shall suddenly come to his temple, even the messenger of the covenant, whom ye delight in: behold, he shall come, saith the LORD of hosts.
  • Acts 7:30-35 : 30 ¶ And when forty years were expired, there appeared to him in the wilderness of mount Sina an angel of the Lord in a flame of fire in a bush. 31 When Moses saw [it], he wondered at the sight: and as he drew near to behold [it], the voice of the Lord came unto him, 32 [Saying], I [am] the God of thy fathers, the God of Abraham, and the God of Isaac, and the God of Jacob. Then Moses trembled, and durst not behold. 33 Then said the Lord to him, Put off thy shoes from thy feet: for the place where thou standest is holy ground. 34 I have seen, I have seen the affliction of my people which is in Egypt, and I have heard their groaning, and am come down to deliver them. And now come, I will send thee into Egypt. 35 This Moses whom they refused, saying, Who made thee a ruler and a judge? the same did God send [to be] a ruler and a deliverer by the hand of the angel which appeared to him in the bush.
  • 1 Cor 3:13-15 : 13 Every man's work shall be made manifest: for the day shall declare it, because it shall be revealed by fire; and the fire shall try every man's work of what sort it is. 14 If any man's work abide which he hath built thereupon, he shall receive a reward. 15 If any man's work shall be burned, he shall suffer loss: but he himself shall be saved; yet so as by fire.
  • 1 Cor 11:10 : 10 For this cause ought the woman to have power on [her] head because of the angels.
  • 1 Tim 5:21 : 21 I charge [thee] before God, and the Lord Jesus Christ, and the elect angels, that thou observe these things without preferring one before another, doing nothing by partiality.
  • Heb 1:14 : 14 Are they not all ministering spirits, sent forth to minister for them who shall be heirs of salvation?
  • Jas 1:26 : 26 If any man among you seem to be religious, and bridleth not his tongue, but deceiveth his own heart, this man's religion [is] vain.
  • Jas 3:2 : 2 For in many things we offend all. If any man offend not in word, the same [is] a perfect man, [and] able also to bridle the whole body.
  • 2 John 1:8 : 8 Look to yourselves, that we lose not those things which we have wrought, but that we receive a full reward.
  • Gen 48:16 : 16 The Angel which redeemed me from all evil, bless the lads; and let my name be named on them, and the name of my fathers Abraham and Isaac; and let them grow into a multitude in the midst of the earth.
  • Lev 5:4-6 : 4 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. 5 And it shall be, when he shall be guilty in one of these [things], that he shall confess that he hath sinned in that [thing]: 6 And he shall bring his trespass offering unto the LORD for his sin which he hath sinned, a female from the flock, a lamb or a kid of the goats, for a sin offering; and the priest shall make an atonement for him concerning his sin.
  • Lev 27:9-9 : 9 And if [it be] a beast, whereof men bring an offering unto the LORD, all that [any man] giveth of such unto the LORD shall be holy. 10 He shall not alter it, nor change it, a good for a bad, or a bad for a good: and if he shall at all change beast for beast, then it and the exchange thereof shall be holy.
  • Num 15:25 : 25 And the priest shall make an atonement for all the congregation of the children of Israel, and it shall be forgiven them; for it [is] ignorance: and they shall bring their offering, a sacrifice made by fire unto the LORD, and their sin offering before the LORD, for their ignorance:
  • Eccl 5:1-2 : 1 ¶ Keep thy foot when thou goest to the house of God, and be more ready to hear, than to give the sacrifice of fools: for they consider not that they do evil. 2 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.
  • Hos 12:4-5 : 4 Yea, he had power over the angel, and prevailed: he wept, and made supplication unto him: he found him [in] Bethel, and there he spake with us; 5 Even the LORD God of hosts; the LORD [is] his memorial.
  • Hag 1:9-9 : 9 Ye looked for much, and, lo, [it came] to little; and when ye brought [it] home, I did blow upon it. Why? saith the LORD of hosts. Because of mine house that [is] waste, and ye run every man unto his own house. 10 Therefore the heaven over you is stayed from dew, and the earth is stayed [from] her fruit. 11 And I called for a drought upon the land, and upon the mountains, and upon the corn, and upon the new wine, and upon the oil, and upon [that] which the ground bringeth forth, and upon men, and upon cattle, and upon all the labour of the hands.
  • Hag 2:14-17 : 14 Then answered Haggai, and said, So [is] this people, and so [is] this nation before me, saith the LORD; and so [is] every work of their hands; and that which they offer there [is] unclean. 15 And now, I pray you, consider from this day and upward, from before a stone was laid upon a stone in the temple of the LORD: 16 Since those [days] were, when [one] came to an heap of twenty [measures], there were [but] ten: when [one] came to the pressfat for to draw out fifty [vessels] out of the press, there were [but] twenty. 17 I smote you with blasting and with mildew and with hail in all the labours of your hands; yet ye [turned] not to me, saith the LORD.

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    2Be 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.

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    13That thou turnest thy spirit against God, and lettest [such] words go out of thy mouth?

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    7For in the multitude of dreams and many words [there are] also [divers] vanities: but fear thou God.

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    4Yea, thou castest off fear, and restrainest prayer before God.

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    4Or 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.

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    6Add thou not unto his words, lest he reprove thee, and thou be found a liar.

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    19Thou givest thy mouth to evil, and thy tongue frameth deceit.

  • Eccl 7:21
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  • Jer 25:6-7
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    6And go not after other gods to serve them, and to worship them, and provoke me not to anger with the works of your hands; and I will do you no hurt.

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    30Neither have I suffered my mouth to sin by wishing a curse to his soul.

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    32If thou hast done foolishly in lifting up thyself, or if thou hast thought evil, [lay] thine hand upon thy mouth.

  • Ps 34:13
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    13Keep thy tongue from evil, and thy lips from speaking guile.

  • Jas 5:12
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    12¶ 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.

  • Prov 24:18
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    18Lest the LORD see [it], and it displease him, and he turn away his wrath from him.

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    6If thou sinnest, what doest thou against him? or [if] thy transgressions be multiplied, what doest thou unto him?

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    26Be ye angry, and sin not: let not the sun go down upon your wrath:

  • Job 36:18
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    18Because [there is] wrath, [beware] lest he take thee away with [his] stroke: then a great ransom cannot deliver thee.

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    14If iniquity [be] in thine hand, put it far away, and let not wickedness dwell in thy tabernacles.

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    1¶ And if a soul sin, and hear the voice of swearing, and [is] a witness, whether he hath seen or known [of it]; if he do not utter [it], then he shall bear his iniquity.

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    2Thou art snared with the words of thy mouth, thou art taken with the words of thy mouth.

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    2¶ Let another man praise thee, and not thine own mouth; a stranger, and not thine own lips.

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    9Lest thou give thine honour unto others, and thy years unto the cruel:

  • Deut 23:22-23
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    22But if thou shalt forbear to vow, it shall be no sin in thee.

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    7Thou shalt not take the name of the LORD thy God in vain; for the LORD will not hold him guiltless that taketh his name in vain.

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    19¶ In the multitude of words there wanteth not sin: but he that refraineth his lips [is] wise.

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    33¶ ‹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:›

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    2If 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.

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    28¶ Be not a witness against thy neighbour without cause; and deceive [not] with thy lips.

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    23‹Therefore if thou bring thy gift to the altar, and there rememberest that thy brother hath ought against thee;›

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    23¶ Whoso keepeth his mouth and his tongue keepeth his soul from troubles.

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    36‹Neither shalt thou swear by thy head, because thou canst not make one hair white or black.›

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    5But oh that God would speak, and open his lips against thee;

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    24Put away from thee a froward mouth, and perverse lips put far from thee.

  • 2 Chr 6:22
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    22If a man sin against his neighbour, and an oath be laid upon him to make him swear, and the oath come before thine altar in this house;

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