Proverbs 20:25

Tree of Life Version

It is a trap for one to say rashly, “It is holy!” and only afterward to consider his vows.

Cross References

Proverbs 18:13

One who answers before listening— that is his folly and his shame.

Proverbs 18:7

A fool’s mouth is his ruin, and his lips are a snare to his soul.

Ecclesiastes 5:2

As a dream comes with excessive burdens so a fool’s voice with too many words.

Leviticus 5:15

“If anyone commits a faithless act and sins unwittingly against the holy things of Adonai, then he is to bring his trespass offering to Adonai: a ram without blemish from the flock, according to your value in silver shekels after the shekel of the Sanctuary, for a trespass offering.

Matthew 5:33

“Again, you have heard that it was said to those of old, ‘You shall not swear falsely, but shall carry out your oaths to Adonai.’

Deuteronomy 23:22

“When you make a vow to Adonai your God, you are not to delay to make good on it—for Adonai your God will certainly require it of you, and you would have sin on you.

Deuteronomy 23:23

But if you refrain from making a vow, you would not have sin on you.

Deuteronomy 23:24

Whatever comes out of your lips you are to take care to do, since you have vowed to Adonai your God a freewill offering that you have promised with your mouth.

Judges 21:22

So it will be, if their fathers or brothers come to complain to us, that we will say to them, ‘Grant them graciously for us, because we did not provide each one of them his wife in battle—nor did you give the girls to them, else you would now be guilty.’”