Ecclesiastes 5:4

Modern English Version

When you make a vow to God, do not delay in fulfilling it, because He has no pleasure in fools. Fulfill what you have vowed.

Cross References

Genesis 28:20

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

Genesis 35:1

Then God said to Jacob, “Arise, go up to Bethel, dwell there, and there make an altar to God, who appeared to you when you fled from the face of Esau your brother.”

Genesis 35:3

Let us arise and go up to Bethel, and there I will make an altar to God, who answered me in the day of my distress and has been with me wherever I have gone.”

Psalm 116:14

I will pay my vows to the Lord, now in the presence of all His people.

Psalm 119:106

I have sworn and I will confirm it, that I will keep Your righteous judgments.

Psalm 22:25

My praise will be from You in the great congregation; I will pay my vows before those who fear Him.

Psalm 50:14

“Offer to God a sacrifice of thanksgiving, and pay your vows to the Most High.

Psalm 76:11

Make your vows to the Lord your God and fulfill them; let all who are around Him bring tribute to Him who is to be feared.

Proverbs 20:25

It is a snare for a man to devote rashly a thing as holy, and after making vows to reconsider his consecration.

Isaiah 19:21

The Lord shall be known to Egypt, and the Egyptians shall know the Lord in that day, and shall worship with sacrifice and offering, they shall make a vow to the Lord and perform it.

Jonah 2:9

But I will sacrifice to You with the voice of thanksgiving; I will pay what I have vowed. Salvation is of the Lord!”

Malachi 1:10

Who is there among you who would shut the doors, that you might not kindle fire on My altar in vain? I have no pleasure in you, says the Lord of Hosts, nor will I accept an offering from your hand.

Numbers 30:2

If a man vows a vow to the Lord, or swears an oath to bind himself with a bond, he will not break his word. He will do according to all that proceeds out of his mouth.

Matthew 5:33

“Again, you have heard that it was said by the ancients, ‘You shall not swear falsely, but shall fulfill your oaths to the Lord.’

Hebrews 10:6

In burnt offerings and sacrifices for sin You have had no pleasure.

Judges 11:35

When he saw her, he ripped up his clothes and said, “Alas, my daughter! You have brought utter disaster to me. You are my undoing, for I have given my word to the Lord, and I cannot take it back.”