Deuteronomy 23:22

New Revised Standard Version Updated Edition 2021

But if you refrain from vowing, you will not incur guilt.

Cross References

Psalm 50:14

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

Psalm 66:13

I will come into your house with burnt offerings; I will pay you my vows,

Proverbs 20:25

It is a snare for one to say rashly, “It is holy,” and begin to reflect only after making a vow.

Ecclesiastes 5:5

It is better that you should not vow than that you should vow and not fulfill it.

Leviticus 27:2

“Speak to the Israelites and say to them: When a person makes an explicit vow to the Lord concerning the equivalent for a human being,

Deuteronomy 23:21

“If you make a vow to the Lord your God, do not postpone fulfilling it, for the Lord your God will surely require it of you, and you would incur guilt.

Deuteronomy 23:23

Whatever your lips utter you must diligently perform, just as you have freely vowed to the Lord your God with your own mouth.

Joshua 9:18

But the Israelites did not attack them because the leaders of the congregation had sworn to them by the Lord, the God of Israel. Then all the congregation murmured against the leaders.