Ecclesiastes 5:2

American King James Version (1999)

Be not rash with your mouth, and let not your heart be hasty to utter any thing before God: for God is in heaven, and you on earth: therefore let your words be few.

Cross References

Matthew 6:7

But when you pray, use not vain repetitions, as the heathen do: for they think that they shall be heard for their much speaking.

Proverbs 10:19

In the multitude of words there wants not sin: but he that refrains his lips is wise.

Isaiah 55:9

For as the heavens are higher than the earth, so are my ways higher than your ways, and my thoughts than your thoughts.

Matthew 6:9

After this manner therefore pray you: Our Father which are in heaven, Hallowed be your name.

Ecclesiastes 5:7

For in the multitude of dreams and many words there are also divers vanities: but fear you God.

Genesis 18:27

And Abraham answered and said, Behold now, I have taken on me to speak to the LORD, which am but dust and ashes:

James 3:2

For in many things we offend all. If any man offend not in word, the same is a perfect man, and able also to bridle the whole body.

Ecclesiastes 5:3

For a dream comes through the multitude of business; and a fool's voice is known by multitude of words.

Proverbs 20:25

It is a snare to the man who devours that which is holy, and after vows to make enquiry.

Genesis 28:20

And Jacob vowed a vow, saying, If God will be with me, and will keep me in this way that I go, and will give me bread to eat, and raiment to put on,

Psalm 115:3

But our God is in the heavens: he has done whatever he has pleased.

Genesis 18:32

And he said, Oh let not the LORD be angry, and I will speak yet but this once: Peradventure ten shall be found there. And he said, I will not destroy it for ten's sake.

Genesis 18:30

And he said to him, Oh let not the LORD be angry, and I will speak: Peradventure there shall thirty be found there. And he said, I will not do it, if I find thirty there.

Judges 11:30

And Jephthah vowed a vow to the LORD, and said, If you shall without fail deliver the children of Ammon into my hands,

Mark 6:23

And he swore to her, Whatever you shall ask of me, I will give it you, to the half of my kingdom.

Genesis 28:22

And this stone, which I have set for a pillar, shall be God's house: and of all that you shall give me I will surely give the tenth to you.

Leviticus 5:4

Or if a soul swear, pronouncing with his lips to do evil, or to do good, whatever it be that a man shall pronounce with an oath, and it be hid from him; when he knows of it, then he shall be guilty in one of these.

Ecclesiastes 10:12

The words of a wise man's mouth are gracious; but the lips of a fool will swallow up himself.

Ecclesiastes 10:13

The beginning of the words of his mouth is foolishness: and the end of his talk is mischievous madness.