Proverbs 20:25 - Revised Version with Apocrypha 1895

²⁵ It is a snare to a man rashly to say, It is holy, And after vows to make inquiry.

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King James Version (Oxford) 1769

²⁵ It is a snare to the man who devoureth that which is holy, And after vows to make enquiry.

Amplified Bible - Classic Edition

²⁵ It is a snare to a man to utter a vow [of consecration] rashly and [not until] afterward inquire [whether he can fulfill it].

American Standard Version (1901)

²⁵ It is a snare to a man rashly to say, It is holy, And after vows to make inquiry.

Common English Bible

²⁵ It is a snare to say rashly, “It is holy,” and only reflect after making the promise.

Catholic Public Domain Version

²⁵ It is ruin for a man to devour what is holy, or, after making vows, to retract them.

Douay-Rheims version of The Bible - 1752 version

²⁵ It is ruin to a man to devour holy ones, and after vows to retract.

Proverbs 20:25 Cross References

Proverbs 18:13

He that giveth answer before he heareth, It is folly and shame unto him.

Proverbs 18:7

A fool's mouth is his destruction, And his lips are the snare of his soul.

Ecclesiastes 5:2

Be not rash with thy month, and let not thine heart be hasty to utter any thing before God; for God is in heaven, and thou upon earth: therefore let thy words be few.

Leviticus 5:15

If any one commit a trespass, and sin unwittingly, in the holy things of the LORD; then he shall bring his guilt offering unto the LORD, a ram without blemish out of the flock, according to thy estimation in silver by shekels, after the shekel of the sanctuary, for a guilt offering:

Matthew 5:33

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

Deuteronomy 23:22

But if thou shalt forbear to vow, it shall be no sin in thee.

Deuteronomy 23:23

That which is gone out of thy lips thou shalt observe and do; according as thou hast vowed unto the LORD thy God, a freewill offering, which thou hast promised with thy mouth.

Deuteronomy 23:24

When thou comest into thy neighbour's vineyard, then thou mayest eat grapes thy fill at thine own pleasure; but thou shalt not put any in thy vessel.

Judges 21:22

And it shall be, when their fathers or their brethren come to complain unto us, that we will say unto them, Grant them graciously unto us: because we took not for each man of them his wife in battle: neither did ye give them unto them; else would ye now be guilty.