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Proverbs 20:25

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¶ [It is] a snare to the man [who] devoureth [that which is] holy, and after vows to make enquiry.

It is a snare {H4170} to the man {H120} who devoureth {H3216} that which is holy {H6944}, and after {H310} vows {H5088} to make enquiry {H1239}.

It is a snare to dedicate a gift to God rashly and reflect on the vows only afterwards.

It is a trap for a man to dedicate something rashly, only later to reconsider his vows.

It is a snare to a man rashly to say, It is holy, And after vows to make inquiry.

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Cross-References

  • Ecclesiastes 5:4 (7 votes)

    ¶ When thou vowest a vow unto God, defer not to pay it; for [he hath] no pleasure in fools: pay that which thou hast vowed.

  • Ecclesiastes 5:6 (7 votes)

    Suffer 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?

  • Matthew 5:33 (5 votes)

    Again, ye have heard that it hath been said by them of old time, Thou shalt not forswear thyself, but shalt perform unto the Lord thine oaths:

  • Numbers 30:2 (4 votes)

    If a man vow a vow unto the LORD, or swear an oath to bind his soul with a bond; he shall not break his word, he shall do according to all that proceedeth out of his mouth.

  • Numbers 30:16 (4 votes)

    These [are] the statutes, which the LORD commanded Moses, between a man and his wife, between the father and his daughter, [being yet] in her youth in her father's house.

  • Leviticus 5:15 (3 votes)

    If a soul commit a trespass, and sin through ignorance, in the holy things of the LORD; then he shall bring for his trespass unto the LORD a ram without blemish out of the flocks, with thy estimation by shekels of silver, after the shekel of the sanctuary, for a trespass offering:

  • Malachi 3:8 (3 votes)

    Will a man rob God? Yet ye have robbed me. But ye say, Wherein have we robbed thee? In tithes and offerings.