Suffer not your mouth to cause your flesh to sin; neither say you before the angel, that it was an error: why should God be angry at your voice, and destroy the work of your hands? Treasury of Scripture thy mouth Ecclesiastes 5:1,2 Keep your foot when you go to the house of God, and be more ready to hear, than to give the sacrifice of fools... James 1:26 If any man among you seem to be religious, and bridles not his tongue, but deceives his own heart, this man's religion is vain. James 3:2 For in many things we offend all. If any man offend not in word, the same is a perfect man, and able also to bridle the whole body. before Leviticus 5:4,5 Or if a soul swear, pronouncing with his lips to do evil, or to do good, whatever it be that a man shall pronounce with an oath... Genesis 48:16 The Angel which redeemed me from all evil, bless the lads; and let my name be named on them... Hosea 12:4,5 Yes, he had power over the angel, and prevailed: he wept, and made supplication to him: he found him in Bethel... Malachi 2:7 For the priest's lips should keep knowledge, and they should seek the law at his mouth: for he is the messenger of the LORD of hosts. Malachi 3:1 Behold, I will send my messenger, and he shall prepare the way before me: and the LORD, whom you seek... Acts 7:30-35 And when forty years were expired... 1 Corinthians 11:10 For this cause ought the woman to have power on her head because of the angels. 1 Timothy 5:21 I charge you before God, and the Lord Jesus Christ, and the elect angels... Hebrews 1:14 Are they not all ministering spirits, sent forth to minister for them who shall be heirs of salvation? it was Leviticus 4:5-6 And the priest that is anointed shall take of the bullock's blood, and bring it to the tabernacle of the congregation... Leviticus 27:9,10 And if it be a beast, whereof men bring an offering to the LORD, all that any man gives of such to the LORD shall be holy... destroy Haggai 1:9-11 You looked for much, and, see it came to little; and when you brought it home, I did blow on it. Why? said the LORD of hosts... Haggai 2:14-17 Then answered Haggai, and said, So is this people, and so is this nation before me, said the LORD; and so is every work of their hands... 1 Corinthians 3:13-15 Every man's work shall be made manifest: for the day shall declare it, because it shall be revealed by fire... Isaiah 50:10,11 Who is among you that fears the LORD, that obeys the voice of his servant, that walks in darkness, and has no light...
Context Approaching God with Awe
1Keep your foot when you go to the house of God, and be more ready to hear, than to give the sacrifice of fools: for they consider not that they do evil. 2Be not rash with your mouth, and let not your heart be hasty to utter any thing before God: for God is in heaven, and you on earth: therefore let your words be few. 3For a dream comes through the multitude of business; and a fool's voice is known by multitude of words. 4When you vow a vow to God, defer not to pay it; for he has no pleasure in fools: pay that which you have vowed. 5Better is it that you should not vow, than that you should vow and not pay. 6Suffer not your mouth to cause your flesh to sin; neither say you before the angel, that it was an error: why should God be angry at your voice, and destroy the work of your hands? 7For in the multitude of dreams and many words there are also divers vanities: but fear you God. Parallel Verses American Standard Version Suffer not thy mouth to cause thy flesh to sin; neither say thou before the angel, that is was an error: wherefore should God be angry at thy voice, and destroy the work of thy hands?
Douay-Rheims Bible Give not thy mouth to cause thy flesh to sin: and say not before the angel: There is no providence: lest God be angry at thy words, and destroy all the works of thy hands.
Darby Bible Translation Suffer not thy mouth to cause thy flesh to sin; neither say thou before the angel, that it was an inadvertence. Wherefore should God be wroth at thy voice, and destroy the work of thy hands?
King James Bible 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?
Young's Literal Translation Suffer not thy mouth to cause thy flesh to sin, nor say before the messenger, that 'it is an error,' why is God wroth because of thy voice, and hath destroyed the work of thy hands?
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