Making A Vow

When a man vows a vow to Yahweh, or swears an oath to bind his soul with a bond, he shall not break his word. He shall do according to all that proceeds out of his mouth.

When you vow a vow to Yahweh your God, you shall not be slack to pay it; for Yahweh your God will surely require it of you; and it would be sin in you. — read the full passage →

“Again you have heard that it was said to them of old time, ‘You shall not make false vows, but shall perform to the Lord your vows,’ — read the full passage →

Paul, having stayed after this many more days, took his leave of the brothers, and sailed from there for Syria, together with Priscilla and Aquila. He shaved his head in Cenchreae, for he had a vow.

But above all things, my brothers, don’t swear, neither by heaven, nor by the earth, nor by any other oath; but let your “yes” be “yes”, and your “no”, “no”; so that you don’t fall into hypocrisy.

Make vows to Yahweh your God, and fulfill them! Let all of his neighbors bring presents to him who is to be feared.

Moses spoke to the heads of the tribes of the children of Israel, saying, “This is the thing which Yahweh has commanded. — read the full passage →

She vowed a vow, and said, “Yahweh of Armies, if you will indeed look on the affliction of your handmaid, and remember me, and not forget your handmaid, but will give to your handmaid a boy, then I will give him to Yahweh all the days of his life, and no razor shall come on his head.”

When you vow a vow to God, don’t defer to pay it; for he has no pleasure in fools. Pay that which you vow. — read the full passage →

Jephthah vowed a vow to Yahweh, and said, “If you will indeed deliver the children of Ammon into my hand, — read the full passage →

“Speak to the children of Israel, and tell them: ‘When either man or woman shall make a special vow, the vow of a Nazirite, to separate himself to Yahweh, — read the full passage →

It is a snare to a man to make a rash dedication, then later to consider his vows.

When you vow a vow to God, don’t defer to pay it; for he has no pleasure in fools. Pay that which you vow. — read the full passage →

“Speak to the children of Israel, and say to them, ‘When a man consecrates a person to Yahweh in a vow, according to your valuation, — read the full passage →

Offer to God the sacrifice of thanksgiving. Pay your vows to the Most High.

Therefore do what we tell you. We have four men who have taken a vow. — read the full passage →

It is better that you should not vow, than that you should vow and not pay.

Then the men feared Yahweh exceedingly; and they offered a sacrifice to Yahweh, and made vows.

Jacob vowed a vow, saying, “If God will be with me, and will keep me in this way that I go, and will give me bread to eat, and clothing to put on, — read the full passage →

For you, God, have heard my vows. You have given me the heritage of those who fear your name.

I will come into your temple with burnt offerings. I will pay my vows to you, — read the full passage →

When you vow a vow to Yahweh your God, you shall not be slack to pay it; for Yahweh your God will surely require it of you; and it would be sin in you.

“Speak to the children of Israel, and say to them, ‘When a man consecrates a person to Yahweh in a vow, according to your valuation,

“If she has a husband, while her vows are on her, or the rash utterance of her lips, with which she has bound her soul, — read the full passage →

“If she vowed in her husband’s house, or bound her soul by a bond with an oath, — read the full passage →

For the woman that has a husband is bound by law to the husband while he lives, but if the husband dies, she is discharged from the law of the husband.

I will pay my vows to Yahweh, yes, in the presence of all his people.

Yahweh spoke to Moses, saying, — read the full passage →

I tell you that whoever divorces his wife, except for sexual immorality, and marries another, commits adultery; and he who marries her when she is divorced commits adultery.”

When you vow a vow to God, don’t defer to pay it; for he has no pleasure in fools. Pay that which you vow.

At the end of two months, she returned to her father, who did with her according to his vow which he had vowed. She was a virgin. It was a custom in Israel,

So I will sing praise to your name forever, that I may fulfill my vows daily.

Jephthah vowed a vow to Yahweh, and said, “If you will indeed deliver the children of Ammon into my hand, — read the full passage →

“Again you have heard that it was said to them of old time, ‘You shall not make false vows, but shall perform to the Lord your vows,’

Yahweh spoke to Moses, saying, — read the full passage →

But let your ‘Yes’ be ‘Yes’ and your ‘No’ be ‘No.’ Whatever is more than these is of the evil one.

Jephthah vowed a vow to Yahweh, and said, “If you will indeed deliver the children of Ammon into my hand, — read the full passage →

Moses spoke to the heads of the tribes of the children of Israel, saying, “This is the thing which Yahweh has commanded. — read the full passage →

Israel vowed a vow to Yahweh, and said, “If you will indeed deliver this people into my hand, then I will utterly destroy their cities.”

Of you comes my praise in the great assembly. I will pay my vows before those who fear him.

You shall observe and do that which has gone out of your lips. Whatever you have vowed to Yahweh your God as a freewill offering, which you have promised with your mouth, you must do.

“Speak to the children of Israel, and tell them: ‘When either man or woman shall make a special vow, the vow of a Nazirite, to separate himself to Yahweh,

Jacob vowed a vow, saying, “If God will be with me, and will keep me in this way that I go, and will give me bread to eat, and clothing to put on,

Praise waits for you, God, in Zion. To you shall vows be performed.

This is the Revelation of Jesus Christ, which God gave him to show to his servants the things which must happen soon, which he sent and made known by his angel to his servant, John,

Thus says Yahweh of Armies, the God of Israel, saying, You and your wives have both spoken with your mouths, and with your hands have fulfilled it, saying, We will surely perform our vows that we have vowed, to burn incense to the queen of the sky, and to pour out drink offerings to her: establish then your vows, and perform your vows. — read the full passage →

Your vows are on me, God. I will give thank offerings to you.

Whereas you don’t know what your life will be like tomorrow. For what is your life? For you are a vapor, that appears for a little time, and then vanishes away.

but I tell you, don’t swear at all: neither by heaven, for it is the throne of God; — read the full passage →

In whose eyes a vile man is despised, but who honors those who fear Yahweh; he who keeps an oath even when it hurts, and doesn’t change;

“But the vow of a widow, or of her who is divorced, everything with which she has bound her soul, shall stand against her.

“Also when a woman vows a vow to Yahweh, and binds herself by a bond, being in her father’s house, in her youth, — read the full passage →

Wives, be subject to your own husbands, as to the Lord.

“But the deceiver is cursed, who has in his flock a male, and vows, and sacrifices to the Lord a defective thing; for I am a great King,” says Yahweh of Armies, “and my name is awesome among the nations.”

But I will sacrifice to you with the voice of thanksgiving. I will pay that which I have vowed. Salvation belongs to Yahweh.”

If we confess our sins, he is faithful and righteous to forgive us the sins, and to cleanse us from all unrighteousness.

Be therefore imitators of God, as beloved children. — read the full passage →

Therefore do what we tell you. We have four men who have taken a vow.

but I tell you that whoever puts away his wife, except for the cause of sexual immorality, makes her an adulteress; and whoever marries her when she is put away commits adultery.

Don’t be rash with your mouth, and don’t let your heart be hasty to utter anything before God; for God is in heaven, and you on earth. Therefore let your words be few.

I will come into your temple with burnt offerings. I will pay my vows to you,

Jephthah vowed a vow to Yahweh, and said, “If you will indeed deliver the children of Ammon into my hand,

You shall not bring the hire of a prostitute, or the wages of a male prostitute, into the house of Yahweh your God for any vow; for both of these are an abomination to Yahweh your God.

“If she has a husband, while her vows are on her, or the rash utterance of her lips, with which she has bound her soul,

and her father hears her vow, and her bond with which she has bound her soul, and her father holds his peace at her; then all her vows shall stand, and every bond with which she has bound her soul shall stand.

Let each man give according as he has determined in his heart; not grudgingly, or under compulsion; for God loves a cheerful giver.

Everyone who divorces his wife, and marries another, commits adultery. He who marries one who is divorced from a husband commits adultery.

For I hate divorce”, says Yahweh, the God of Israel, “and him who covers his garment with violence!” says Yahweh of Armies. “Therefore take heed to your spirit, that you don’t deal treacherously.

There are six things which Yahweh hates; yes, seven which are an abomination to him: — read the full passage →

My son, if you have become collateral for your neighbor, if you have struck your hands in pledge for a stranger; — read the full passage →

I will pay my vows to Yahweh, yes, in the presence of all his people,

At the end of forty years, Absalom said to the king, “Please let me go and pay my vow, which I have vowed to Yahweh, in Hebron. — read the full passage →

Ruth said, “Don’t entreat me to leave you, and to return from following after you, for where you go, I will go; and where you lodge, I will lodge; your people shall be my people, and your God my God; — read the full passage →

for, behold, you shall conceive, and bear a son; and no razor shall come on his head; for the child shall be a Nazirite to God from the womb: and he shall begin to save Israel out of the hand of the Philistines.”

When he saw her, he tore his clothes, and said, “Alas, my daughter! You have brought me very low, and you are one of those who trouble me; for I have opened my mouth to Yahweh, and I can’t go back.” — read the full passage →

There you shall bring your burnt offerings, your sacrifices, your tithes, the wave offering of your hand, your vows, your freewill offerings, and the firstborn of your herd and of your flock.

“Also when a woman vows a vow to Yahweh, and binds herself by a bond, being in her father’s house, in her youth,

“Speak to the children of Israel, and tell them: ‘When either man or woman shall make a special vow, the vow of a Nazirite, to separate himself to Yahweh, — read the full passage →

“Speak to the children of Israel, and tell them: ‘When either man or woman shall make a special vow, the vow of a Nazirite, to separate himself to Yahweh, — read the full passage →

Yahweh spoke to Moses, saying, — read the full passage →

Whoever offers a sacrifice of peace offerings to Yahweh to accomplish a vow, or for a freewill offering, of the herd or of the flock, it shall be perfect to be accepted. It shall have no defect.

“Speak to Aaron, and to his sons, and to all the children of Israel, and say to them, ‘Whoever is of the house of Israel, or of the foreigners in Israel, who offers his offering, whether it be any of their vows, or any of their freewill offerings, which they offer to Yahweh for a burnt offering; — read the full passage →

“‘But if the sacrifice of his offering is a vow, or a freewill offering, it shall be eaten on the day that he offers his sacrifice; and on the next day what remains of it shall be eaten:

Let marriage be held in honor among all, and let the bed be undefiled: but God will judge the sexually immoral and adulterers.

Let all that you do be done in love.

So then if, while the husband lives, she is joined to another man, she would be called an adulteress. But if the husband dies, she is free from the law, so that she is no adulteress, though she is joined to another man.

But a certain man named Ananias, with Sapphira, his wife, sold a possession, — read the full passage →

They will eat, and not have enough. They will play the prostitute, and will not increase; because they have abandoned giving to Yahweh.

Set me as a seal on your heart, as a seal on your arm; for love is strong as death. Jealousy is as cruel as Sheol. Its flashes are flashes of fire, a very flame of Yahweh.

When you vow a vow to God, don’t defer to pay it; for he has no pleasure in fools. Pay that which you vow. — read the full passage →

You shall make your prayer to him, and he will hear you. You shall pay your vows.

Now there was a certain man of Ramathaim Zophim, of the hill country of Ephraim, and his name was Elkanah, the son of Jeroham, the son of Elihu, the son of Tohu, the son of Zuph, an Ephraimite: — read the full passage →

but he said to me, ‘Behold, you shall conceive, and bear a son; and now drink no wine nor strong drink, and eat not any unclean thing; for the child shall be a Nazirite to God from the womb to the day of his death.’”

Then the Spirit of Yahweh came on Jephthah, and he passed over Gilead and Manasseh, and passed over Mizpah of Gilead, and from Mizpah of Gilead he passed over to the children of Ammon. — read the full passage →

then it shall happen that to the place which Yahweh your God shall choose, to cause his name to dwell there, there you shall bring all that I command you: your burnt offerings, your sacrifices, your tithes, the wave offering of your hand, and all your choice vows which you vow to Yahweh.

Beloved, don’t believe every spirit, but test the spirits, whether they are of God, because many false prophets have gone out into the world.

Owe no one anything, except to love one another; for he who loves his neighbor has fulfilled the law.

But a certain man named Ananias, with Sapphira, his wife, sold a possession, — read the full passage →

For God so loved the world, that he gave his one and only Son, that whoever believes in him should not perish, but have eternal life. — read the full passage →

For everything spoken by God is possible.”