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Ecc 5:6 — 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?

Phrase of Scripture		Correlating Passages

thy mouth		Ecc 5:1,2; Jam 1:26; Jam 3:2
before		"Or, ""before the messenger,"" hammalach, the priest whose business it was to take cognizance of vows and offerings. Lev 5:4,5; Gen 48:16; Hsa 12:4,5; Mal 2:7; Mal 3:1; Act 7:30-35; 1Cr 11:10; 1Ti 5:21; Hbr 1:14"
it was		Lev 5:4-6; Lev 27:9,10
destroy		Hag 1:9-11; Hag 2:14-17; 1Cr 3:13-15; 2Jo 1:8

Correlating Passages

thy mouth

	Ecc 5:1	Keep thy foot when thou goest to the house of God, and be more ready to hear, than to give the sacrifice of fools: for they consider not that they do evil.
	Ecc 5:2	Be not rash with thy mouth, and let not thine heart be hasty to utter [any] thing before God: for God [is] in heaven, and thou upon earth: therefore let thy words be few.
	Jam 1:26	If any man among you seem to be religious, and bridleth not his tongue, but deceiveth his own heart, this man's religion [is] vain.
	Jam 3:2	For in many things we offend all. If any man offend not in word, the same [is] a perfect man, [and] able also to bridle the whole body.

before

	Lev 5:4	Or if a soul swear, pronouncing with [his] lips to do evil, or to do good, whatsoever [it be] that a man shall pronounce with an oath, and it be hid from him; when he knoweth [of it], then he shall be guilty in one of these.
	Lev 5:5	And it shall be, when he shall be guilty in one of these [things], that he shall confess that he hath sinned in that [thing]:
	Gen 48:16	The Angel which 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.
	Hsa 12:4	Yea, he had power over the angel, and prevailed: he wept, and made supplication unto him: he found him [in] Bethel, and there he spake with us;
	Hsa 12:5	Even the LORD God of hosts; the LORD [is] his memorial.
	Mal 2:7	For the priest's lips should keep knowledge, and they should seek the law at his mouth: for he [is] the messenger of the LORD of hosts.
	Mal 3:1	Behold, I will send my messenger, and he shall prepare the way before me: and the Lord, whom ye seek, shall suddenly come to his temple, even the messenger of the covenant, whom ye delight in: behold, he shall come, saith the LORD of hosts.
	Act 7:30	And when forty years were expired, there appeared to him in the wilderness of mount Sina an angel of the Lord in a flame of fire in a bush.
	Act 7:31	When Moses saw [it], he wondered at the sight: and as he drew near to behold [it], the voice of the Lord came unto him,
	Act 7:32	[Saying], I [am] the God of thy fathers, the God of Abraham, and the God of Isaac, and the God of Jacob. Then Moses trembled, and durst not behold.
	Act 7:33	Then said the Lord to him, Put off thy shoes from thy feet: for the place where thou standest is holy ground.
	Act 7:34	I have seen, I have seen the affliction of my people which is in Egypt, and I have heard their groaning, and am come down to deliver them. And now come, I will send thee into Egypt.
	Act 7:35	This Moses whom they refused, saying, Who made thee a ruler and a judge? the same did God send [to be] a ruler and a deliverer by the hand of the angel which appeared to him in the bush.
	1Cr 11:10	For this cause ought the woman to have power on [her] head because of the angels.
	1Ti 5:21	I charge [thee] before God, and the Lord Jesus Christ, and the elect angels, that thou observe these things without preferring one before another, doing nothing by partiality.
	Hbr 1:14	Are they not all ministering spirits, sent forth to minister for them who shall be heirs of salvation?

it was

	Lev 5:4	Or if a soul swear, pronouncing with [his] lips to do evil, or to do good, whatsoever [it be] that a man shall pronounce with an oath, and it be hid from him; when he knoweth [of it], then he shall be guilty in one of these.
	Lev 5:5	And it shall be, when he shall be guilty in one of these [things], that he shall confess that he hath sinned in that [thing]:
	Lev 5:6	And he shall bring his trespass offering unto the LORD for his sin which he hath sinned, a female from the flock, a lamb or a kid of the goats, for a sin offering; and the priest shall make an atonement for him concerning his sin.
	Lev 27:9	And if [it be] a beast, whereof men bring an offering unto the LORD, all that [any man] giveth of such unto the LORD shall be holy.
	Lev 27:10	He shall not alter it, nor change it, a good for a bad, or a bad for a good: and if he shall at all change beast for beast, then it and the exchange thereof shall be holy.

destroy

	Hag 1:9	Ye looked for much, and, lo, [it came] to little; and when ye brought [it] home, I did blow upon it. Why? saith the LORD of hosts. Because of mine house that [is] waste, and ye run every man unto his own house.
	Hag 1:10	Therefore the heaven over you is stayed from dew, and the earth is stayed [from] her fruit.
	Hag 1:11	And I called for a drought upon the land, and upon the mountains, and upon the corn, and upon the new wine, and upon the oil, and upon [that] which the ground bringeth forth, and upon men, and upon cattle, and upon all the labour of the hands.
	Hag 2:14	Then answered Haggai, and said, So [is] this people, and so [is] this nation before me, saith the LORD; and so [is] every work of their hands; and that which they offer there [is] unclean.
	Hag 2:15	And now, I pray you, consider from this day and upward, from before a stone was laid upon a stone in the temple of the LORD:
	Hag 2:16	Since those [days] were, when [one] came to an heap of twenty [measures], there were [but] ten: when [one] came to the pressfat for to draw out fifty [vessels] out of the press, there were [but] twenty.
	Hag 2:17	I smote you with blasting and with mildew and with hail in all the labours of your hands; yet ye [turned] not to me, saith the LORD.
	1Cr 3:13	Every man's work shall be made manifest: for the day shall declare it, because it shall be revealed by fire; and the fire shall try every man's work of what sort it is.
	1Cr 3:14	If any man's work abide which he hath built thereupon, he shall receive a reward.
	1Cr 3:15	If any man's work shall be burned, he shall suffer loss: but he himself shall be saved; yet so as by fire.
	2Jo 1:8	Look to yourselves, that we lose not those things which we have wrought, but that we receive a full reward.

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Scott, Thomas. "Ecclesiastes 5:6," The Treasury of Scripture Knowledge. Blue Letter Bible. 1836. 9 Jul 2004. .
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