Font Size
Ecclesiastes 5:4-6
International Standard Version
Ecclesiastes 5:4-6
International Standard Version
Keep Your Promises to God
4 When you make a promise to God, don’t fail to keep it, since he isn’t pleased with fools. Keep what you promise— 5 it’s better that you don’t promise than that you do promise and not follow through.[a] 6 Never let your mouth cause you[b] to sin and don’t proclaim in the presence of the angel,[c] “My promise[d] was a mistake,” for why should God be angry at your excuse[e] and destroy what you’ve undertaken?
Read full chapterFootnotes
- Ecclesiastes 5:5 Or not pay
- Ecclesiastes 5:6 Lit. cause your body
- Ecclesiastes 5:6 LXX reads of God
- Ecclesiastes 5:6 Lit. It
- Ecclesiastes 5:6 Lit. voice
International Standard Version (ISV)
Copyright © 1995-2014 by ISV Foundation. ALL RIGHTS RESERVED INTERNATIONALLY. Used by permission of Davidson Press, LLC.