Ecclesiastes 5:6

World English Bible (2000)

Don't allow your mouth to lead you into sin. Don't protest before the messenger that this was a mistake. 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 Yahweh of Armies.
  • Mal 3:1 : 1 "Behold, I send my messenger, and he will prepare the way before me; and the Lord, whom you seek, will suddenly come to his temple; and the messenger of the covenant, whom you desire, behold, he comes!" says Yahweh of Armies.
  • Acts 7:30-35 : 30 "When forty years were fulfilled, 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 wondered at the sight. As he came close to see, a voice of the Lord came to him, 32 'I am the God of your fathers, the God of Abraham, the God of Isaac, and the God of Jacob.' Moses trembled, and dared not look. 33 The Lord said to him, 'Take your sandals off of your feet, for the place where you stand is holy ground. 34 I have surely seen the affliction of my people that is in Egypt, and have heard their groaning. I have come down to deliver them. Now come, I will send you into Egypt.' 35 "This Moses, whom they refused, saying, 'Who made you a ruler and a judge?'--God has sent him as both 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 man's work will be revealed. For the Day will declare it, because it is revealed in fire; and the fire itself will test what sort of work each man's work is. 14 If any man's work remains which he built on it, he will receive a reward. 15 If any man's work is burned, he will suffer loss, but he himself will be saved, but as through fire.
  • 1 Cor 11:10 : 10 For this cause the woman ought to have authority on her head, because of the angels.
  • 1 Tim 5:21 : 21 I command you in the sight of God, and Christ Jesus, and the chosen angels, that you observe these things without prejudice, doing nothing by partiality.
  • Heb 1:14 : 14 Aren't they all serving spirits, sent out to do service for the sake of those who will inherit salvation?
  • Jas 1:26 : 26 If anyone among you thinks himself to be religious while he doesn't bridle his tongue, but deceives his heart, this man's religion is worthless.
  • Jas 3:2 : 2 For in many things we all stumble. If anyone doesn't stumble in word, the same is a perfect man, able to bridle the whole body also.
  • 2 John 1:8 : 8 Watch yourselves, that we don't lose the things which we have accomplished, but that we receive a full reward.
  • Gen 48:16 : 16 the angel who has 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. Let them grow into a multitude in the midst of the earth."
  • Lev 5:4-6 : 4 "'Or if anyone swears rashly with his lips to do evil, or to do good, whatever it is that a man might utter rashly with an oath, and it is hidden from him; when he knows of it, then he shall be guilty of one of these. 5 It shall be, when he is guilty of one of these, he shall confess that in which he has sinned: 6 and he shall bring his trespass offering to Yahweh for his sin which he has sinned, a female from the flock, a lamb or a goat, for a sin offering; and the priest shall make atonement for him concerning his sin.
  • Lev 27:9-9 : 9 "'If it is an animal, of which men offer an offering to Yahweh, all that any man gives of such to Yahweh becomes 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 animal for animal, then both it and that for which it is changed shall be holy.
  • Num 15:25 : 25 The priest shall make atonement for all the congregation of the children of Israel, and they shall be forgiven; for it was an error, and they have brought their offering, an offering made by fire to Yahweh, and their sin offering before Yahweh, for their error:
  • Eccl 5:1-2 : 1 Guard your steps when you go to God's house; for to draw near to listen is better than to give the sacrifice of fools, for they don't know that they do evil. 2 Don't be rash with your mouth, and don't let your heart be hasty to utter anything before God; for God is in heaven, and you on earth. Therefore let your words be few.
  • Hos 12:4-5 : 4 Indeed, he struggled with the angel, and prevailed; he wept, and made supplication to him. He found him at Bethel, and there he spoke with us, 5 even Yahweh, the God of Armies; Yahweh is his name of renown!
  • Hag 1:9-9 : 9 "You looked for much, and, behold, it came to little; and when you brought it home, I blew it away. Why?" says Yahweh of Armies, "Because of my house that lies waste, while each of you is busy with his own house. 10 Therefore for your sake the heavens withhold the dew, and the earth withholds its fruit. 11 I called for a drought on the land, on the mountains, on the grain, on the new wine, on the oil, on that which the ground brings forth, on men, on livestock, and on all the labor of the hands."
  • Hag 2:14-17 : 14 Then Haggai answered, "'So is this people, and so is this nation before me,' says Yahweh; 'and so is every work of their hands. That which they offer there is unclean. 15 Now, please consider from this day and backward, before a stone was laid on a stone in the temple of Yahweh. 16 Through all that time, when one came to a heap of twenty measures, there were only ten. When one came to the wine vat to draw out fifty, there were only twenty. 17 I struck you with blight, mildew, and hail in all the work of your hands; yet you didn't turn to me,' says Yahweh.

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    1 Guard your steps when you go to God's house; for to draw near to listen is better than to give the sacrifice of fools, for they don't know that they do evil.

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  • Eccl 5:4-5
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    4 When you vow a vow to God, don't defer to pay it; for he has no pleasure in fools. Pay that which you vow.

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  • Job 15:13
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    13 That you turn your spirit against God, and let such words go out of your mouth?

  • Eccl 5:7
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    7 For in the multitude of dreams there are vanities, as well as in many words: but you must fear God.

  • Job 15:4-6
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    4 Yes, you do away with fear, and hinder devotion before God.

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  • Lev 5:4
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  • Prov 30:6
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    6 Don't you add to his words, lest he reprove you, and you be found a liar.

  • Ps 50:19
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    19 "You give your mouth to evil. Your tongue frames deceit.

  • Eccl 7:21
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    21 Also don't take heed to all words that are spoken, lest you hear your servant curse you;

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

    7 Yet you have not listened to me, says Yahweh; that you may provoke me to anger with the work of your hands to your own hurt.

  • Job 31:30
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    30 (yes, I have not allowed my mouth to sin by asking his life with a curse);

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

  • Ps 34:13
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    13 Keep your tongue from evil, and your lips from speaking lies.

  • Jas 5:12
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    12 But above all things, my brothers, don't swear, neither by heaven, nor by the earth, nor by any other oath; but let your "yes" be "yes," and your "no," "no;" so that you don't fall into hypocrisy.

  • Prov 24:18
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    18 lest Yahweh see it, and it displease him, and he turn away his wrath from him.

  • Prov 30:10
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    10 "Don't slander a servant to his master, lest he curse you, and you be held guilty.

  • Job 35:6
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    6 If you have sinned, what effect do you have against him? If your transgressions are multiplied, what do you do to him?

  • Eph 4:26
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    26 "Be angry, and don't sin." Don't let the sun go down on your wrath,

  • Job 36:18
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    18 Don't let riches entice you to wrath, neither let the great size of a bribe turn you aside.

  • Job 11:14
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    14 If iniquity is in your hand, put it far away. Don't let unrighteousness dwell in your tents.

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    8 Cease from anger, and forsake wrath. Don't fret, it leads only to evildoing.

  • Deut 5:11
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    11 "You shall not take the name of Yahweh your God in vain: for Yahweh will not hold him guiltless who takes his name in vain.

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    17 Don't be too wicked, neither be foolish. Why should you die before your time?

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    1 Yahweh, don't rebuke me in your anger, neither discipline me in your wrath.

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    4 surely my lips shall not speak unrighteousness, neither shall my tongue utter deceit.

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    1 I said, "I will watch my ways, so that I don't sin with my tongue. I will keep my mouth with a bridle while the wicked is before me."

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    1 "'If anyone sins, in that he hears the voice of adjuration, he being a witness, whether he has seen or known, if he doesn't report it, then he shall bear his iniquity.

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    2 You are trapped by the words of your mouth. You are ensnared with the words of your mouth.

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

  • Prov 5:9
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    9 lest you give your honor to others, and your years to the cruel one;

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    22 But if you shall forbear to vow, it shall be no sin in you.

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  • Exod 20:7
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    7 "You shall not take the name of Yahweh your God in vain, for Yahweh will not hold him guiltless who takes his name in vain.

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    19 In the multitude of words there is no lack of disobedience, but he who restrains his lips does wisely.

  • Matt 5:33
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    33 "Again you have heard that it was said to them of old time, 'You shall not make false vows, but shall perform to the Lord your vows,'

  • Num 30:2
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    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.

  • Prov 24:28
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    28 Don't be a witness against your neighbor without cause. Don't deceive with your lips.

  • Matt 5:23
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    23 "If therefore you are offering your gift at the altar, and there remember that your brother has anything against you,

  • Prov 21:23
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    23 Whoever guards his mouth and his tongue keeps his soul from troubles.

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    36 Neither shall you swear by your head, for you can't make one hair white or black.

  • Job 11:5
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    5 But oh that God would speak, and open his lips against you,

  • Prov 4:24
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    24 Put away from yourself a perverse mouth. Put corrupt lips far from you.

  • 2 Chr 6:22
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    22 "If a man sin against his neighbor, and an oath is laid on him to cause him to swear, and he comes and swears before your altar in this house;

  • Matt 12:36
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    36 I tell you that every idle word that men speak, they will give account of it in the day of judgment.