Ecclesiastes 5:6

Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

Summary

Suffer not thy mouth to cause thy flesh to sin; neither say thou before the angel, that it was an error: wherefore should God be angry at thy voice, and destroy the work of thine hands?

Thy mouth

Ecclesiastes 5:1

James 1:26

James 3:2

Before

It was

Leviticus 5:4

Leviticus 27:9

Destroy

Bible References

Thy mouth

Keep thy foot when thou go to the house of God, for to draw near to hear is better than to give the sacrifice of fools. For they know not that they do evil.

If any man among you seems to be religious, not bridling his tongue but deceiving his heart, this man's religion is futile.

For we all stumble in many things. If any man does not stumble in word, this is a perfect man, able also to bridle the whole body.

Before

Or if a soul swears rashly with his lips to do evil, or to do good, whatever it be that a man shall utter rashly with an oath, and it be hid from him, when he realizes it, then he shall be guilty in one of these.

the [heavenly] agent who has redeemed me from all evil, bless the lads, and let my name be named on them, and the name of my fathers Abraham and Isaac, and let them grow into a multitude in the midst of the earth.

Yea, he had strength over the [heavenly] agent, and prevailed, [as] he wept, and made supplication to him. He found him at Bethel, and there he spoke with us.

For the priest's lips should keep knowledge, and they should seek the law at his mouth. For he is the messenger of LORD of hosts.

Behold, I send my messenger, and he shall prepare the way before me. And LORD, whom ye seek, will suddenly come to his temple. And the messenger of the covenant, whom ye desire, behold, he comes, says LORD of hosts.

And forty years having been fulfilled, an agent of Lord appeared to him in the wilderness of Mount Sinai in a flame of fire of a bush.

Because of this the woman ought to have authority over her head, because of the heavenly agents.

I solemnly testify before God, and Lord Jesus Christ, and the chosen agents, that thou keep these things without prejudice, doing nothing from partiality.

Are they not all ministering spirits sent forth for service for the sake of those who are going to inherit salvation?

It was

And if it be a beast, of which men offer an oblation to LORD, all that any man gives of such to LORD shall be holy.

Destroy

Ye looked for much, and, lo, it came to little, and when ye brought it home, I blew upon it. Why? says LORD of hosts. Because of my house that lays waste while ye run each man to his own house.

Then Haggai answered and said, So is this people, and so is this nation before me, says LORD, and so is every work of their hands. And that which they offer there is unclean.

each man's work will become manifest. For the day will make it known, because it is revealed by fire. And the fire will test each man's work of what kind it is.

Watch yourselves, so that we may not lose what we have wrought, but may receive a full reward.