Ecclesiastes 5:5

Webster's Bible (1833)

It is better that you should not vow, than that you should vow and not pay.

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Referenced Verses

  • Prov 20:25 : 25 It is a snare to a man to make a rash dedication, Then later to consider his vows.
  • Acts 5:4 : 4 While you kept it, didn't it remain your own? After it was sold, wasn't it in your power? How is it that you have conceived this thing in your heart? You haven't lied to men, but to God."
  • Deut 23:22 : 22 But if you shall forbear to vow, it shall be no sin in you.

Similar Verses (AI)

These verses are found using AI-powered semantic similarity based on meaning and context. Results may occasionally include unexpected connections.

  • Eccl 5:1-4
    4 verses
    89%

    1Guard 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.

    2Don'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.

    3For as a dream comes with a multitude of cares, so a fool's speech with a multitude of words.

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

  • Eccl 5:6-7
    2 verses
    80%

    6Don'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?

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

  • Deut 23:21-23
    3 verses
    79%

    21When you shall vow a vow to Yahweh your God, you shall not be slack to pay it: for Yahweh your God will surely require it of you; and it would be sin in you.

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

    23That which is gone out of your lips you shall observe and do; according as you have vowed to Yahweh your God, a freewill-offering, which you have promised with your mouth.

  • Num 30:2-3
    2 verses
    75%

    2When 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.

    3Also when a woman vows a vow to Yahweh, and binds herself by a bond, being in her father's house, in her youth,

  • Jas 5:12
    74%

    12But 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.{TR reads "under judgment" instead of "into hypocrisy"}

  • Matt 5:33-34
    2 verses
    74%

    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,'

    34but I tell you, don't swear at all: neither by heaven, for it is the throne of God;

  • Lev 5:4-5
    2 verses
    74%

    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.

    5It shall be, when he is guilty of one of these, he shall confess that in which he has sinned:

  • Prov 20:25
    73%

    25It is a snare to a man to make a rash dedication, Then later to consider his vows.

  • Prov 22:25-27
    3 verses
    72%

    25Lest you learn his ways, And ensnare your soul.

    26Don't you be one of those who strike hands, Of those who are collateral for debts.

    27If you don't have means to pay, Why should he take away your bed from under you?

  • Deut 5:11
    72%

    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.

  • Job 22:27
    71%

    27You shall make your prayer to him, and he will hear you. You shall pay your vows.

  • Matt 5:36-37
    2 verses
    70%

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

    37But let your 'Yes' be 'Yes' and your 'No' be 'no.' Whatever is more than these is of the evil one.

  • Lev 6:5
    70%

    5or any thing about which he has sworn falsely; he shall restore it even in full, and shall add a fifth part more to it. To him to whom it belongs he shall give it, in the day of his being found guilty.

  • Prov 11:15
    69%

    15He who is collateral for a stranger will suffer for it, But he who refuses pledges of collateral is secure.

  • Matt 5:25-26
    2 verses
    69%

    25Agree with your adversary quickly, while you are with him in the way; lest perhaps the prosecutor deliver you to the judge, and the judge deliver you to the officer, and you be cast into prison.

    26Most assuredly I tell you, you shall by no means get out of there, until you have paid the last penny.{Literally, kodrantes. A kodrantes was a small copper coin worth about 2 lepta (widow's mites)--not enough to buy very much of anything.}

  • Prov 19:1
    69%

    1Better is the poor who walks in his integrity Than he who is perverse in his lips and is a fool.

  • Prov 6:1
    68%

    1My son, if you have become collateral for your neighbor, If you have struck your hands in pledge for a stranger;

  • Lev 5:1
    68%

    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.

  • Prov 5:9
    68%

    9Lest you give your honor to others, And your years to the cruel one;

  • Eccl 8:2
    68%

    2I say, "Keep the king's command!" because of the oath to God.

  • Exod 20:7
    68%

    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.

  • Prov 30:6
    68%

    6Don't you add to his words, Lest he reprove you, and you be found a liar.

  • Eccl 7:21
    68%

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

  • Lev 19:12
    67%

    12"'You shall not swear by my name falsely, and profane the name of your God. I am Yahweh.

  • Prov 25:8
    67%

    8Don't be hasty in bringing charges to court. What will you do in the end when your neighbor shames you?

  • Eccl 7:17
    67%

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

  • Eccl 7:5
    67%

    5It is better to hear the rebuke of the wise, than for a man to hear the song of fools.

  • Prov 3:28
    67%

    28Don't say to your neighbor, "Go, and come again, Tomorrow I will give it to you," When you have it by you.

  • Ps 50:14
    67%

    14Offer to God the sacrifice of thanksgiving. Pay your vows to the Most High.

  • Deut 5:18
    67%

    18"Neither shall you commit adultery.

  • Num 30:10
    67%

    10If she vowed in her husband's house, or bound her soul by a bond with an oath,

  • Ps 15:4
    67%

    4In whose eyes a vile man is despised, But who honors those who fear Yahweh; He who keeps an oath even when it hurts, and doesn't change;

  • Job 36:18
    67%

    18Don't let riches entice you to wrath, Neither let the great size of a bribe turn you aside.

  • Prov 18:5
    67%

    5To be partial to the faces of the wicked is not good, Nor to deprive the innocent of justice.

  • Num 30:6
    67%

    6If she be [married] to a husband, while her vows are on her, or the rash utterance of her lips, with which she has bound her soul,

  • Matt 15:5
    67%

    5But you say, 'Whoever may tell his father or his mother, "Whatever help you might otherwise have gotten from me is a gift devoted to God,"