Ecclesiastes 5:4

Wycliffe's Bible with Modern Spelling

If thou hast avowed anything to God, tarry thou not to yield it; for an unfaithful and fond promise displeaseth him; but yield thou whatever thing thou hast avowed;

Cross References

Genesis 28:20

Also Jacob avowed a vow, and said, If God is with me, and keepeth me in the way in which I go, and giveth to me loaves to eat, and clothes to be clothed with,

Genesis 35:1

In the meantime the Lord spake to Jacob, Rise thou, and go up to Bethel, and dwell there; and make thou an altar to the Lord, that appeared to thee when thou fleddest Esau, thy brother.

Genesis 35:3

rise ye, and go we up into Bethel, that we make there an altar to the Lord, which heard me in the day of my tribulation, and was fellow of my way.

Psalm 116:14

I shall yield my vows to the Lord before all his people;

Psalm 119:106

I swore, and purposed steadfastly; to keep the dooms of thy rightfulness [or rightwiseness].

Psalm 22:25

My praising is with thee in a great church; I shall yield my vows in the sight of men dreading him.

Psalm 50:14

Offer thou to God the sacrifice of praising; and yield thine avows [or vows] to the highest God.

Psalm 76:11

Make ye a vow, and yield ye to your Lord God; all that bring gifts in the compass of it. To God fearedful,

Proverbs 20:25

Falling of man is to make avow [or vow] to saints, and afterward to withdraw the vows.

Isaiah 19:21

And the Lord shall be known of Egypt, and [the] Egyptians shall know the Lord in that day; and they shall worship him in sacrifices and gifts, and they shall make vows to the Lord, and they shall pay.

Jonah 2:9

But I in voice of praising shall offer to thee; whatever things I vowed, I shall yield to the Lord, for mine health.

Malachi 1:10

Who is in you that closeth doors, and burneth mine altar of his own will, either freely? Will or Delight is not to me in you, saith the Lord of hosts; and I shall not receive a gift of your hand.

Numbers 30:2

If any of men maketh a vow to the Lord, either bindeth himself by an oath, he shall not make void, or false, his word, but he shall fulfill all thing that he promised.

Matthew 5:33

Again ye have heard, that it was said to old men, Thou shalt not forswear, but thou shalt yield thine oaths to the Lord.

Hebrews 10:6

[and] burnt sacrifices also for sin pleased not to thee.

Judges 11:35

And when he saw her, he rent his clothes, and said, Alas! my daughter, thou hast troubled me, and thou art troubled; for I opened my mouth to the Lord, and I may do none other thing.