◄ Deuteronomy 23:23 ►
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Good News Translation
but if you make one voluntarily, be sure that you keep it.

New Revised Standard Version
Whatever your lips utter you must diligently perform, just as you have freely vowed to the LORD your God with your own mouth.

Contemporary English Version
You must keep whatever promises you make to the LORD. After all, you are the one who chose to make the promises.

New American Bible
But whatever your tongue utters you must be careful to do, just as you freely vowed to the LORD, your God, with your own mouth.

Douay-Rheims Bible
But that which is once gone out of thy lips, thou shalt observe, and shalt do as thou hast promised to the Lord thy God, and hast spoken with thy own will and with thy own mouth.

Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

But that which is once gone out of thy lips, thou shalt observe, and shalt do as thou hast promised to the Lord thy God, and hast spoken with thy own will and with thy own mouth.

That which

Numbers 30:2 If any man make a vow to the Lord, or bind himself by an oath: he shall not make his word void but shall fulfil all that he promised.

Judges 11:30,31,35 He made a vow to the Lord, saying: If thou wilt deliver the children of Ammon into my hands, . . .

1 Samuel 1:11 And she made a vow, saying: O Lord of hosts, if thou wilt look down, and wilt be mindful of me, and not forget thy handmaid, and wilt give to thy servant a manchild: I will give him to the Lord all the days of his life, and no razor shall come upon his head.

Psalm 66:13,14 I will go into thy house with burnt offerings: I will pay thee my vows, . . .

Psalm 116:18 I will pay my vows to the Lord in the sight of all his people:

Proverbs 20:25 It is ruin to a man to devour holy ones, and after vows to retract.

Ecclesiastes 5:4,5 If thou hast vowed any thing to God, defer not to pay it: for an unfaithful and foolish promise displeaseth him: but whatsoever thou hast vowed, pay it. . . .

has vowed

1 Samuel 14:24 And the men of Israel were joined together that day: and Saul adjured the people, saying: Cursed be the man that shall eat food till evening, till I be revenged of my enemies. So none of the people tasted any food.

Jeremiah 44:25-27 Thus saith the Lord of hosts the God of Israel, saying: You and your wives have spoken with your mouth, and fulfilled with your hands, saying: Let us perform our vows which we have made, to offer sacrifice to the queen of heaven, and to pour out drink offerings to her: you have fulfilled your vows, and have performed them indeed. . . .

Mark 6:22,23 And when the daughter of the same Herodias had come in, and had danced, and pleased Herod, and them that were at table with him, the king said to the damsel: Ask of me what thou wilt, and I will give it thee. . . .

Context
Miscellaneous Laws
…22If thou wilt not promise, that shalt be without sin. 23But that which is once gone out of thy lips, thou shalt observe, and shalt do as thou hast promised to the Lord thy God, and hast spoken with thy own will and with thy own mouth.24Going into thy neighbour's vineyard, thou mayst eat as many grapes as thou pleasest: but must carry none out with thee:…
Cross References
Matthew 5:33
Again you have heard that it was said to them of old, thou shalt not forswear thyself: but thou shalt perform thy oaths to the Lord.

Deuteronomy 23:22
If thou wilt not promise, that shalt be without sin.

Deuteronomy 23:24
Going into thy neighbour's vineyard, thou mayst eat as many grapes as thou pleasest: but must carry none out with thee:

Jeremiah 44:17
But we will certainly do every word that shall proceed out of our own mouth, to sacrifice to the queen of heaven, and to pour out drink offerings to her, as we and our fathers have done, our kings, and our princes in the cities of Juda, and in the streets of Jerusalem: and we were filled with bread, and it was well with us, and we saw no evil.

Deuteronomy 23:22
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