Proverbs 20:25

Y'all Version Bible

It is a snare for a person to blurt out, “Holy!”, then later to consider their vows.

Cross References

Matthew 5:33

“Again you have heard that it was said to the ancients, ‘You must not make false vows, but fulfill to the Lord [YHWH] your vows,’

Leviticus 5:15

“If anyone commits a trespass, and sins unwittingly regarding YHWH’s holy things, then he is to bring his trespass offering to YHWH: a ram without defect from the flock, according to your estimation in silver by shekels, according to the shekel of the sanctuary, for a trespass offering.

Proverbs 18:7

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

Proverbs 18:13

He who answers before he hears, that is folly and shame to him.

Ecclesiastes 5:2

Don’t be rash with your mouth, and don’t let your heart be hasty to utter anything before God; for God is in heaven, and you on earth. Therefore let your words be few.

Deuteronomy 23:22

But if you refrain from making a vow, it would not be sin in you.

Deuteronomy 23:23

You are to observe and do that which has gone out of your lips. Whatever you have vowed to YHWH your God as a free will offering, which you have promised with your mouth, you must do.

Deuteronomy 23:24

When you come into your neighbor’s vineyard, then you may eat your fill of grapes at your own pleasure; but you must not put any in your container.

Judges 21:22

When their fathers or their brothers come to complain to us, we will say to them, ‘Y’all be gracious to them, because we didn’t take a woman for each man in battle. Y’all didn’t give them to them, otherwise y’all would now be guilty.’”