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◄ Ecclesiastes 5:6 ►

Do not let your mouth cause your body to sin, and do not tell the messenger that your vow was a mistake. Why should God be angry with your words and destroy the work of your hands?

Chapter Outline

1. vanities in divine service
8. in murmuring against oppression
9. and in riches
18. Joy in riches is the gift of God.

Timeline

950 BC

Ecclesiastes Words of the Preacher

Ecclesiastes 1 - 12

People

Solomon

Places

Jerusalem

Topics

Account, Allow, Angel, Angry, Bring, Cause, Destroy, Destroyed, Error, Evil, Flesh, Guilt, Hands, Inadvertence, Lead, Messenger, Mistake, Mouth, Presence, Protest, Sin, Speech, Suffer, Temple, Voice, Vow, Wherefore, Wroth

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Parallel Verses

NASB: Do not let your speech cause you to sin and do not say in the presence of the messenger of God that it was a mistake. Why should God be angry on account of your voice and destroy the work of your hands?

KJV: Suffer not thy mouth to cause thy flesh to sin; neither say thou before the angel, that it was an error: wherefore should God be angry at thy voice, and destroy the work of thine hands?

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