Ecclesiastes 5:6

KJV1611 – Modern English

Do not let your mouth cause your flesh to sin, nor say before the angel that it was an error; why should God be angry at your voice and destroy the work of your 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 you seek, shall suddenly come to his temple, even the messenger of the covenant, whom you delight in: behold, he shall come, says the LORD of hosts.
  • Acts 7:30-35 : 30 And when forty years were complete, an angel of the Lord appeared to him in the wilderness of Mount Sinai in a flame of fire in a bush. 31 When Moses saw it, he marveled at the sight; and as he drew near to observe, the voice of the Lord came to him, 32 Saying, I am the God of your fathers, the God of Abraham, and the God of Isaac, and the God of Jacob. Then Moses trembled and did not dare to look. 33 Then the Lord said to him, Take off your sandals from your feet, for the place where you stand is holy ground. 34 I have surely seen the oppression of my people who are in Egypt, and I have heard their groaning, and have come down to deliver them. And now come, I will send you to Egypt. 35 This Moses, whom they refused, saying, Who made you a ruler and a judge? the same God sent to be a ruler and a deliverer by the hand of the angel who appeared to him in the bush.
  • 1 Cor 3:13-15 : 13 Each one's work will become clear: for the day will declare it, because it will be revealed by fire; and the fire will test each one's work, of what sort it is. 14 If anyone's work which he has built on it endures, he will receive a reward. 15 If anyone's work is burned, he will suffer loss: but he himself will be saved; yet so as through fire.
  • 1 Cor 11:10 : 10 For this reason the woman ought to have authority on her head, because of the angels.
  • 1 Tim 5:21 : 21 I charge you before God, and the Lord Jesus Christ, and the elect angels, that you observe these things without prejudice, doing nothing with partiality.
  • Heb 1:14 : 14 Are they not all ministering spirits, sent forth to minister for those who shall be heirs of salvation?
  • Jas 1:26 : 26 If anyone among you thinks he is religious, and does not bridle his tongue but deceives his own heart, this man's religion is useless.
  • Jas 3:2 : 2 For in many things we all stumble. If anyone does not stumble in word, the same is a perfect man, able also to bridle the whole body.
  • 2 John 1:8 : 8 Look to yourselves, that we do not lose those things we have worked for, but that we may receive a full reward.
  • Gen 48:16 : 16 The Angel who 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 person swears, speaking falsely with his lips to do evil or to do good, whatever it is that a person may pronounce with an oath, and it is hidden from him; when he becomes aware of it, then he shall be guilty in any of these matters. 5 And it shall be, when he is guilty in any of these matters, that he shall confess that he has sinned in that thing: 6 And he shall bring his trespass offering to the LORD for his sin which he has committed, a female from the flock, a lamb or a kid of the goats, for a sin offering; and the priest shall make atonement for him concerning his sin.
  • Lev 27:9-9 : 9 And if it is a beast, of which men bring an offering to the LORD, all that any man gives of such to 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 changes beast for beast, then both it and the exchange thereof shall be holy.
  • Num 15:25 : 25 And the priest shall make 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 to the LORD, and their sin offering before the LORD, for their ignorance:
  • Eccl 5:1-2 : 1 Keep your foot when you go to the house of God, and be more ready to hear than to offer the sacrifice of fools, for they do not know that they do evil. 2 Do not be rash with your mouth, and do not let your heart be hasty to utter anything before God, for God is in heaven, and you are on earth; therefore, let your words be few.
  • Hos 12:4-5 : 4 Yes, he had power over the angel, and prevailed; he wept and made supplication to him; he found him in Bethel, and there He spoke with us; 5 Even the LORD God of hosts; the LORD is His memorial.
  • Hag 1:9-9 : 9 You looked for much, but indeed it came to little; and when you brought it home, I blew it away. Why? says the LORD of hosts. Because of My house that is in ruins, while each of you runs to his own house. 10 Therefore the heavens above you withhold the dew, and the earth withholds its fruit. 11 For I called for a drought on the land and the mountains, on the grain and the new wine and the oil, on whatever the ground brings forth, on men and livestock, and on all the labor of your hands.
  • Hag 2:14-17 : 14 Then Haggai answered and said, So is this people, and so is this nation before Me, says the LORD; and so is every work of their hands; and what they offer there is unclean. 15 And now, I pray you, consider from this day onward, before a stone was laid upon a stone in the temple of the LORD: 16 Since those days were, when one came to a heap of twenty measures, there were but ten; when one came to the wine vat to draw fifty measures, there were but twenty. 17 I struck you with blight and mildew and hail in all the labors of your hands; yet you did not turn to Me, says the LORD.

Similar Verses (AI)

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  • Eccl 5:1-2
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    81%

    1Keep your foot when you go to the house of God, and be more ready to hear than to offer the sacrifice of fools, for they do not know that they do evil.

    2Do not be rash with your mouth, and do not let your heart be hasty to utter anything before God, for God is in heaven, and you are on earth; therefore, let your words be few.

  • Eccl 5:4-5
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    80%

    4When you vow a vow to God, do not delay to pay it, for He has no pleasure in fools; pay what you have vowed.

    5It is better not to vow than to vow and not pay.

  • Job 15:13
    75%

    13That you turn your spirit against God, and let such words go out of your mouth?

  • Eccl 5:7
    75%

    7For in the multitude of dreams and many words there are also various vanities; but fear God.

  • Job 15:4-6
    3 verses
    74%

    4Yes, you cast off fear, and restrain prayer before God.

    5For your mouth declares your iniquity, and you choose the tongue of the crafty.

    6Your own mouth condemns you, not I; yes, your own lips testify against you.

  • Lev 5:4
    74%

    4Or if a person swears, speaking falsely with his lips to do evil or to do good, whatever it is that a person may pronounce with an oath, and it is hidden from him; when he becomes aware of it, then he shall be guilty in any of these matters.

  • Prov 30:6
    73%

    6Do not add to His words, lest He rebuke you, and you be found a liar.

  • Ps 50:19
    73%

    19You give your mouth to evil, and your tongue frames deceit.

  • Eccl 7:21
    73%

    21Also, do not take to heart everything people say, lest you hear your servant curse you.

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

    7Yet you have not listened to Me, says the LORD; that you might provoke Me to anger with the works of your hands to your own harm.

  • Job 31:30
    72%

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

  • Prov 30:32
    72%

    32If you have acted foolishly in exalting yourself, or if you have thought evil, put your hand on your mouth.

  • Ps 34:13
    72%

    13Keep your tongue from evil, and your lips from speaking deceit.

  • Jas 5:12
    71%

    12But above all things, my brethren, do not swear, neither by heaven, nor by the earth, nor by any other oath: but let your 'yes' be 'yes,' and your 'no,' 'no'; lest you fall into condemnation.

  • Prov 24:18
    71%

    18Lest the LORD see it, and it displease him, and he turn away his wrath from him.

  • Prov 30:10
    71%

    10Do not accuse a servant to his master, lest he curse you, and you be found guilty.

  • Job 35:6
    71%

    6If you sin, what do you do against him? or if your transgressions are multiplied, what do you do to him?

  • Eph 4:26
    71%

    26Be angry, and do not sin: do not let the sun go down on your wrath,

  • Job 36:18
    71%

    18Because there is wrath, beware lest he takes you away with his stroke: then a great ransom cannot deliver you.

  • Job 11:14
    71%

    14If iniquity is in your hand, put it far away, and do not let wickedness dwell in your tents.

  • Ps 37:8
    71%

    8Cease from anger and forsake wrath; do not fret—it only leads to evil.

  • Deut 5:11
    70%

    11You shall not take the name of the LORD your God in vain: for the LORD will not hold him guiltless who takes his name in vain.

  • Eccl 7:17
    70%

    17Do not be overly wicked, nor be foolish; why should you die before your time?

  • Ps 6:1
    70%

    1O LORD, do not rebuke me in Your anger, nor chasten me in Your hot displeasure.

  • Job 27:4
    70%

    4My lips shall not speak wickedness, nor my tongue utter deceit.

  • Lev 6:3
    70%

    3Or if he has found what was lost and lies about it, and swears falsely; in any of these things a person may do, sinning therein:

  • Ps 39:1
    70%

    1I said, I will be careful of my ways, so that I do not sin with my tongue: I will keep my mouth with a bridle, while the wicked are before me.

  • Lev 5:1
    70%

    1And if a person sins, and hears the voice of swearing, and is a witness, whether he has seen or known of it; if he does not speak of it, then he shall bear his guilt.

  • Prov 6:2
    70%

    2You are snared by the words of your mouth, you are taken by the words of your mouth.

  • Prov 27:2
    70%

    2Let another man praise you, and not your own mouth; a stranger, and not your own lips.

  • Prov 5:9
    70%

    9Lest you give your honor to others, and your years to the cruel:

  • Deut 23:22-23
    2 verses
    70%

    22But if you refrain from vowing, it shall not be sin in you.

    23That which has gone out of your lips you shall keep and perform; even a freewill offering, according as you have vowed to the LORD your God, which you have promised with your mouth.

  • Exod 20:7
    70%

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

  • Prov 10:19
    70%

    19In the multitude of words, there is no lack of sin, but he who restrains his lips is wise.

  • Matt 5:33
    69%

    33Again, you have heard that it was said to those of old, 'You shall not swear falsely, but shall perform your oaths to the Lord:'

  • Num 30:2
    69%

    2If a man makes a vow to the LORD, 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.

  • Prov 24:28
    69%

    28Do not be a witness against your neighbor without cause, and do not deceive with your lips.

  • Matt 5:23
    69%

    23Therefore if you bring your gift to the altar, and there remember that your brother has something against you,

  • Prov 21:23
    69%

    23Whoever guards his mouth and his tongue keeps his soul from troubles.

  • Matt 5:36
    69%

    36Nor shall you swear by your head, because you cannot make one hair white or black.

  • Job 11:5
    69%

    5Oh, that God would speak and open His lips against you,

  • Prov 4:24
    69%

    24Put away from you a deceitful mouth, and put perverse lips far from you.

  • 2 Chr 6:22
    69%

    22If a man sins against his neighbor, and an oath is laid upon him to make him swear, and the oath comes before your altar in this house;

  • Matt 12:36
    69%

    36But I say to you, That every idle word that men shall speak, they shall give account for in the day of judgment.