Cross references

Proverbs 20:25

It is a trap for a man to dedicate something rashly,

only later to reconsider his vows.

Proverbs 20:25 BSB

Proverbs 20:25 has 9 cross-references in the OpenBible.info data, 4 of them with at least 4 reader votes. The strongest point to Ecclesiastes 5:4–6 (8 votes) and Matthew 5:33 (6 votes). 10 other verses point back to it. It links with 10 other books, from Leviticus 5 to Acts 5.

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Which verses does Proverbs 20:25 point to?

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  1. When you make a vow to God, do not delay in fulfilling it, because He takes no pleasure in fools. Fulfill your vow. It is better not to vow than to make a vow and not fulfill it. …

  2. Again, you have heard that it was said to the ancients, ‘Do not break your oath, but fulfill your vows to the Lord.’

  3. If he vows an animal that may be brought as an offering to the LORD, any such animal given to the LORD shall be holy. He must not replace it or exchange it, either good for bad or bad for good. But if he does substitute one animal for another, both that animal and its substitute will be holy.

  4. If a man makes a vow to the LORD or swears an oath to obligate himself by a pledge, he must not break his word; he must do everything he has promised. And if a woman in her father’s house during her youth makes a vow to the LORD or obligates herself by a pledge, …

  5. “If someone acts unfaithfully and sins unintentionally against any of the LORD’s holy things, he must bring his guilt offering to the LORD: an unblemished ram from the flock, of proper value in silver shekels according to the sanctuary shekel; it is a guilt offering.

  6. No one outside a priest’s family may eat the sacred offering, nor may the guest of a priest or his hired hand eat it. But if a priest buys a slave with his own money, or if a slave is born in his household, that slave may eat his food. …

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

  8. Will a man rob God? Yet you are robbing Me! But you ask, ‘How do we rob You?’ In tithes and offerings. You are cursed with a curse, yet you—the whole nation—are still robbing Me. …

  9. Thus any tithe from the land, whether from the seed of the land or the fruit of the trees, belongs to the LORD; it is holy to the LORD. If a man wishes to redeem part of his tithe, he must add a fifth to its value.

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