Better is it that thou shouldest not vow, than that thou shouldest vow and not pay.


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Ecclesiastes 5 4 When thou vowest a vow unto God, defer not to pay it; for he hath no pleasure in fools: pay that which thou hast vowed.
Deuteronomy 23 21 When thou shalt vow a vow unto the LORD thy God, thou shalt not slack to pay it: for the LORD thy God will surely require it of thee; and it would be sin in thee.
Deuteronomy 23 22 But if thou shalt forbear to vow, it shall be no sin in thee.
Numbers 30 2 If a man vow a vow unto the LORD, or swear an oath to bind his soul with a bond; he shall not break his word, he shall do according to all that proceedeth out of his mouth.
Matthew 5 33 Again, ye have heard that it hath been said by them of old time, Thou shalt not forswear thyself, but shalt perform unto the Lord thine oaths:
Deuteronomy 24 6 No man shall take the nether or the upper millstone to pledge: for he taketh a man's life to pledge.
Deuteronomy 24 12 And if the man be poor, thou shalt not sleep with his pledge:
James 5 12 But above all things, my brethren, swear not, neither by heaven, neither by the earth, neither by any other oath: but let your yea be yea; and your nay, nay; lest ye fall into condemnation.
Leviticus 27 2 Speak unto the children of Israel, and say unto them, When a man shall make a singular vow, the persons shall be for the LORD by thy estimation.
Genesis 24 41 Then shalt thou be clear from this my oath, when thou comest to my kindred; and if they give not thee one, thou shalt be clear from my oath.
Deuteronomy 24 17 Thou shalt not pervert the judgment of the stranger, nor of the fatherless; nor take a widow's raiment to pledge:
Deuteronomy 23 18 Thou shalt not bring the hire of a whore, or the price of a dog, into the house of the LORD thy God for any vow: for even both these are abomination unto the LORD thy God.
Exodus 20 14 Thou shalt not commit adultery.
Numbers 30 13 Every vow, and every binding oath to afflict the soul, her husband may establish it, or her husband may make it void.
Exodus 22 26 If thou at all take thy neighbour's raiment to pledge, thou shalt deliver it unto him by that the sun goeth down:
Psalms 119 8 I will keep thy statutes: O forsake me not utterly.
Deuteronomy 29 12 That thou shouldest enter into covenant with the LORD thy God, and into his oath, which the LORD thy God maketh with thee this day:
Matthew 23 18 And, Whosoever shall swear by the altar, it is nothing; but whosoever sweareth by the gift that is upon it, he is guilty.
Deuteronomy 29 14 Neither with you only do I make this covenant and this oath;
Deuteronomy 24 10 When thou dost lend thy brother any thing, thou shalt not go into his house to fetch his pledge.
Deuteronomy 12 19 Take heed to thyself that thou forsake not the Levite as long as thou livest upon the earth.
Exodus 34 12 Take heed to thyself, lest thou make a covenant with the inhabitants of the land whither thou goest, lest it be for a snare in the midst of thee:
Deuteronomy 23 23 That which is gone out of thy lips thou shalt keep and perform; even a freewill offering, according as thou hast vowed unto the LORD thy God, which thou hast promised with thy mouth.
Leviticus 25 37 Thou shalt not give him thy money upon usury, nor lend him thy victuals for increase.
Psalms 119 72 The law of thy mouth is better unto me than thousands of gold and silver.
Ecclesiastes 8 2 I counsel thee to keep the king's commandment, and that in regard of the oath of God.
Deuteronomy 29 9 Keep therefore the words of this covenant, and do them, that ye may prosper in all that ye do.
Genesis 24 8 And if the woman will not be willing to follow thee, then thou shalt be clear from this my oath: only bring not my son thither again.
Numbers 30 8 But if her husband disallowed her on the day that he heard it; then he shall make her vow which she vowed, and that which she uttered with her lips, wherewith she bound her soul, of none effect: and the LORD shall forgive her.
Deuteronomy 17 11 According to the sentence of the law which they shall teach thee, and according to the judgment which they shall tell thee, thou shalt do: thou shalt not decline from the sentence which they shall shew thee, to the right hand, nor to the left.
Leviticus 19 11 Ye shall not steal, neither deal falsely, neither lie one to another.
Deuteronomy 26 16 This day the LORD thy God hath commanded thee to do these statutes and judgments: thou shalt therefore keep and do them with all thine heart, and with all thy soul.
Acts 15 29 That ye abstain from meats offered to idols, and from blood, and from things strangled, and from fornication: from which if ye keep yourselves, ye shall do well. Fare ye well.
Acts 21 23 Do therefore this that we say to thee: We have four men which have a vow on them;
1 Corinthians 7 8 I say therefore to the unmarried and widows, It is good for them if they abide even as I.
1 Corinthians 7 28 But and if thou marry, thou hast not sinned; and if a virgin marry, she hath not sinned. Nevertheless such shall have trouble in the flesh: but I spare you.
Romans 4 14 For if they which are of the law be heirs, faith is made void, and the promise made of none effect:
Job 34 33 Should it be according to thy mind? he will recompense it, whether thou refuse, or whether thou choose; and not I: therefore speak what thou knowest.
Exodus 22 11 Then shall an oath of the LORD be between them both, that he hath not put his hand unto his neighbour's goods; and the owner of it shall accept thereof, and he shall not make it good.
Psalms 65 1 Praise waiteth for thee, O God, in Sion: and unto thee shall the vow be performed.
Romans 13 8 Owe no man any thing, but to love one another: for he that loveth another hath fulfilled the law.
Leviticus 5 4 Or if a soul swear, pronouncing with his lips to do evil, or to do good, whatsoever it be that a man shall pronounce with an oath, and it be hid from him; when he knoweth of it, then he shall be guilty in one of these.
Deuteronomy 17 10 And thou shalt do according to the sentence, which they of that place which the LORD shall choose shall shew thee; and thou shalt observe to do according to all that they inform thee:
Hebrews 7 28 For the law maketh men high priests which have infirmity; but the word of the oath, which was since the law, maketh the Son, who is consecrated for evermore.
Numbers 30 3 If a woman also vow a vow unto the LORD, and bind herself by a bond, being in her father's house in her youth;
Leviticus 22 21 And whosoever offereth a sacrifice of peace offerings unto the LORD to accomplish his vow, or a freewill offering in beeves or sheep, it shall be perfect to be accepted; there shall be no blemish therein.
Matthew 23 23 Woe unto you, scribes and Pharisees, hypocrites! for ye pay tithe of mint and anise and cummin, and have omitted the weightier matters of the law, judgment, mercy, and faith: these ought ye to have done, and not to leave the other undone.
Leviticus 26 15 And if ye shall despise my statutes, or if your soul abhor my judgments, so that ye will not do all my commandments, but that ye break my covenant:
Exodus 23 6 Thou shalt not wrest the judgment of thy poor in his cause.
Colossians 3 23 And whatsoever ye do, do it heartily, as to the Lord, and not unto men;