Ecclesiastes 5:7
There are certainly many dreams, questions of meaning, and lots of different ideas, but you are to follow God.
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For in the multitude of dreams and many words there are also divers vanities: but fear thou God.
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Ecclesiastes 3:14I also concluded that everything God does lasts forever: nothing can be added to it or taken away from it. God acts in this way so that people may stand in awe of him.
Ecclesiastes 5:3When you worry too much, you get nightmares; when you talk too much, you say foolish things.
Ecclesiastes 8:9I examined all these things, and thought about all that happens here on earth, and the damage that's caused when people dominate others.
Ecclesiastes 12:13To sum up now that everything has been discussed: Respect God by keeping his commandments, for that's what everyone should do.
Matthew 12:36I tell you, people will have to account for every careless thing they say on the Day of Judgment.
Matthew Henry on Ecclesiastes 5:5-9
The Obligation of a Vow. 4 When thou vowest a vow unto God, defer not to pay it; for he hath no pleasure in fools: pay that which thou hast vowed. 5 Better is it that thou shouldest not vow, than that thou shouldest vow and not pay. 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? 7 For in the multitude of dreams and many words there are also divers vanities: but fear thou God.… Read the whole commentary →