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 →

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.

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.

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 →

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 →

“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 →

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

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

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

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

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.”

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

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

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

“‘Or if anyone swears rashly with his lips to do evil, or to do good, whatever it is that a man might utter rashly with an oath, and it is hidden from him; when he knows of it, then he shall be guilty of one of these. — read the full passage →

Behold, on the mountains the feet of him who brings good news, who publishes peace! Keep your feasts, Judah! Perform your vows, for the wicked one will no more pass through you. He is utterly cut off.

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

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

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 →

which my lips promised, and my mouth spoke, when I was in distress.

I will pay my vows to Yahweh, yes, in the presence of all his people. — read the full passage →

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

Two are better than one, because they have a good reward for their labor. — 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.

“‘You shall offer these to Yahweh in your set feasts, besides your vows, and your freewill offerings, for your burnt offerings, and for your meal offerings, and for your drink offerings, and for your peace offerings.’”

Therefore a man will leave his father and his mother, and will join with his wife, and they will be one flesh.

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

You husbands, in the same way, live with your wives according to knowledge, giving honor to the woman, as to the weaker vessel, as being also joint heirs of the grace of life; that your prayers may not be hindered.

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

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

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.

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 →

“Sacrifices of peace offerings are with me. This day I have paid my vows.

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.

“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,’

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,

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.

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.

I am the God of Bethel, where you anointed a pillar, where you vowed a vow to me. Now arise, get out from this land, and return to the land of your birth.’”

Nevertheless each of you must also love his own wife even as himself; and let the wife see that she respects her husband.

Let all that you do be done in love.

But, because of sexual immoralities, let each man have his own wife, and let each woman have her own husband.

And above all things be earnest in your love among yourselves, for love covers a multitude of sins.

“It was also said, ‘Whoever shall put away his wife, let him give her a writing of divorce,’ — read the full passage →

besides the Sabbaths of Yahweh, and besides your gifts, and besides all your vows, and besides all your freewill offerings, which you give to Yahweh.

If I speak with the languages of men and of angels, but don’t have love, I have become sounding brass, or a clanging cymbal. — read the full passage →

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

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

“I made a covenant with my eyes, how then should I look lustfully at a young woman?

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,

“Be careful that you don’t do your charitable giving before men, to be seen by them, or else you have no reward from your Father who is in heaven. — read the full passage →

Then Jesus was led up by the Spirit into the wilderness to be tempted by the devil. — 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 →

And whatever you do, work heartily, as for the Lord, and not for men,

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

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

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

The man Elkanah, and all his house, went up to offer to Yahweh the yearly sacrifice, and his vow.

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.

He said to them, “Whoever divorces his wife, and marries another, commits adultery against her.

“It was also said, ‘Whoever shall put away his wife, let him give her a writing of divorce,’

The heavens, the earth, and all their vast array were finished. — read the full passage →

Call on me in the day of trouble. I will deliver you, and you will honor me.”

“‘You shall not swear by my name falsely, and profane the name of your God. I am Yahweh.

“‘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:

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 →

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.”

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

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,

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

Jesus said to him, “I am the way, the truth, and the life. No one comes to the Father, except through me.

When it was day, some of the Jews banded together, and bound themselves under a curse, saying that they would neither eat nor drink until they had killed Paul. — read the full passage →

For your servant vowed a vow while I stayed at Geshur in Syria, saying, ‘If Yahweh shall indeed bring me again to Jerusalem, then I will serve Yahweh.’”

Pharisees came to him testing him, and asked him, “Is it lawful for a man to divorce his wife?” — read the full passage →

Above all these things, walk in love, which is the bond of perfection.

Anxiety in a man’s heart weighs it down, but a kind word makes it glad.

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

But you say, ‘If a man tells his father or his mother, “Whatever profit you might have received from me is Corban, that is to say, given to God”;’ — 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: — read the full passage →

I tell you that every idle word that men speak, they will give account of it in the day of judgment. — read the full passage →

The children of Israel grieved for Benjamin their brother, and said, “There is one tribe cut off from Israel this day.

with all lowliness and humility, with patience, bearing with one another in love;

“This is my commandment, that you love one another, even as I have loved you.

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

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.

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

“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 →

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

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.”

“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.”

Don’t let kindness and truth forsake you. Bind them around your neck. Write them on the tablet of your heart. — read the full passage →

“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,

“‘If a man dedicates to Yahweh part of the field of his possession, then your valuation shall be according to the seed for it. The sowing of a homer of barley shall be valued at fifty shekels of silver. — read the full passage →

“‘When a man dedicates his house to be holy to Yahweh, then the priest shall evaluate it, whether it is good or bad: as the priest shall evaluate it, so shall it stand.

For everything spoken by God is possible.”

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

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.

For I know the thoughts that I think toward you, says Yahweh, thoughts of peace, and not of evil, to give you hope and a future.

so that I come again to my father’s house in peace, and Yahweh will be my God,