Ecclesiastes 5:6

WEB

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?

KJV

⁶Suffer 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?

BSB

⁶Do not let your mouth cause your flesh to sin, and do not tell the messenger ^[+] that your vow was a mistake. Why should God be angry with your words and destroy the work of your hands?

FBV

⁶Don't let your mouth cause you to sin. And don't tell the priest^[+] that your vow was a mistake, for why would you antagonize God by breaking your promise?^[+] He could bring your own curse down on you.

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Extra References

2 John 1:8

⁸Watch yourselves, that we don’t lose the things which we have accomplished, but that we receive a full reward.

James 1:26

²⁶If 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.

James 3:2

²For we all stumble in many things. Anyone who doesn’t stumble in word is a perfect person, able to bridle the whole body also.

Malachi 2:7

⁷For 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 Armies.

Ecclesiastes 5:1-2

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.

Leviticus 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 will 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; ⁶and he shall bring his trespass offering to the LORD 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.

Genesis 48:16

¹⁶the 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 upon the earth.”

Numbers 15:25

²⁵The 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 the LORD, and their sin offering before the LORD, for their error.

1 Corinthians 3:13-15

¹³each 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. ¹⁴If any man’s work remains which he built on it, he will receive a reward. ¹⁵If any man’s work is burned, he will suffer loss, but he himself will be saved, but as through fire.

Hebrews 1:14

¹⁴Aren’t they all serving spirits, sent out to do service for the sake of those who will inherit salvation?