Ecclesiastes 5:6

Do 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?

Cross References (18)

  • James 1:26 (11)

    If anyone considers himself religious and yet does not bridle his tongue, he deceives his heart and his religion is wort

  • 2 John 1:8 (10)

    Watch yourselves, so that you do not lose what we have worked for, but that you may be fully rewarded.

  • James 3:2 (8)

    We all stumble in many ways. If anyone is never at fault in what he says, he is a perfect man, able to control his whole

  • Malachi 2:7 (7)

    For the lips of a priest should preserve knowledge, and people should seek instruction from his mouth, because he is the

  • Ecclesiastes 5:1–2 (6)

    Guard your steps when you go to the house of God. Draw near to listen rather than to offer the sacrifice of fools, who d

  • Leviticus 5:4–6 (4)

    Or if someone swears thoughtlessly with his lips to do anything good or evil—in whatever matter a man may rashly pronoun

  • Genesis 48:16 (3)

    the angel who has redeemed me from all harm—may He bless these boys. And may they be called by my name and the names of

  • 1 Corinthians 3:13–15 (2)

    his workmanship will be evident, because the Day will bring it to light. It will be revealed with fire, and the fire wil

  • Numbers 15:25 (2)

    The priest is to make atonement for the whole congregation of Israel, so that they may be forgiven; for the sin was unin

  • Hebrews 1:14 (1)

    Are not the angels ministering spirits sent to serve those who will inherit salvation?

  • 1 Corinthians 11:10 (0)

    For this reason a woman ought to have a sign of authority on her head, because of the angels.

  • Malachi 3:1 (0)

    “Behold, I will send My messenger, who will prepare the way before Me. Then the Lord whom you seek will suddenly come to

  • 1 Timothy 5:21 (0)

    I solemnly charge you before God and Christ Jesus and the elect angels to maintain these principles without bias, and to

  • Hosea 12:4–5 (0)

    Yes, he struggled with the angel and prevailed; he wept and sought His favor; he found Him at Bethel and spoke with Him

  • Leviticus 27:9–10 (0)

    If he vows an animal that may be brought as an offering to the LORD, any such animal given to the LORD shall be holy.

  • Haggai 1:9–11 (0)

    You expected much, but behold, it amounted to little. And what you brought home, I blew away. Why? declares the LORD of

  • Haggai 2:14–17 (0)

    Then Haggai replied, “So it is with this people and this nation before Me, declares the LORD, and so it is with every wo

  • Acts 7:30–35 (0)

    After forty years had passed, an angel appeared to Moses in the flames of a burning bush in the desert near Mount Sinai.