Fulfill Your Vow to God

[a]Guard your steps when you go to the house of God. Go near to listen rather than to offer the sacrifice of fools, who do not know that they do wrong.

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Footnotes

  1. Ecclesiastes 5:1 In Hebrew texts 5:1 is numbered 4:17, and 5:2-20 is numbered 5:1-19.

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.

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but those who harvest it will eat(A) it
    and praise the Lord,(B)
and those who gather the grapes will drink it
    in the courts of my sanctuary.”(C)

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But they that have gathered it shall eat it, and praise the Lord; and they that have brought it together shall drink it in the courts of my holiness.

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12 “This is the law of the temple: All the surrounding area(A) on top of the mountain will be most holy.(B) Such is the law of the temple.

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12 This is the law of the house; Upon the top of the mountain the whole limit thereof round about shall be most holy. Behold, this is the law of the house.

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17 If anyone destroys God’s temple, God will destroy that person; for God’s temple is sacred, and you together are that temple.

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17 If any man defile the temple of God, him shall God destroy; for the temple of God is holy, which temple ye are.

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