Bible Verses About Keeping Vows
Ranked by the OpenBible.info topical community
These are the Bible verses most often cited for keeping vows, ranked by the OpenBible.info topical community across 1,859 votes, led by Numbers 30:2. Each passage links to its verse page or the interactive map; scripture is the King James Version.
Top verses about Keeping Vows
Numbers 30:2261 votes
If a man vow a vow unto the Lord, or swear an oath to bind his soul with a bond; he shall not break his word, he shall do according to all that proceedeth out of his mouth.
Deuteronomy 23:21-23147 votes
When thou shalt vow a vow unto the Lord thy God, thou shalt not slack to pay it: for the Lord thy God will surely require it of thee; and it would be sin in thee.
Matthew 5:33-37145 votes
Again, ye have heard that it hath been said by them of old time, Thou shalt not forswear thyself, but shalt perform unto the Lord thine oaths:
Psalms 76:11139 votes
Vow, and pay unto the Lord your God: let all that be round about him bring presents unto him that ought to be feared.
Ecclesiastes 5:4-6111 votes
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.
Proverbs 20:25101 votes
It is a snare to the man who devoureth that which is holy, and after vows to make enquiry.
Psalms 50:1499 votes
Offer unto God thanksgiving; and pay thy vows unto the most High:
Acts 18:1888 votes
And Paul after this tarried there yet a good while, and then took his leave of the brethren, and sailed thence into Syria, and with him Priscilla and Aquila; having shorn his head in Cenchrea: for he had a vow.
Ecclesiastes 5:4-586 votes
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.
James 5:1279 votes
But above all things, my brethren, swear not, neither by heaven, neither by the earth, neither by any other oath: but let your yea be yea; and your nay, nay; lest ye fall into condemnation.
Deuteronomy 23:2172 votes
When thou shalt vow a vow unto the Lord thy God, thou shalt not slack to pay it: for the Lord thy God will surely require it of thee; and it would be sin in thee.
Acts 21:23-2464 votes
Do therefore this that we say to thee: We have four men which have a vow on them;
1 Samuel 1:1146 votes
And she vowed a vow, and said, O Lord of hosts, if thou wilt indeed look on the affliction of thine handmaid, and remember me, and not forget thine handmaid, but wilt give unto thine handmaid a man child, then I will give him unto the Lord all the days of his life, and there shall no razor come upon his head.
Judges 11:30-4044 votes
And Jephthah vowed a vow unto the Lord, and said, If thou shalt without fail deliver the children of Ammon into mine hands,
Judges 11:30-3941 votes
And Jephthah vowed a vow unto the Lord, and said, If thou shalt without fail deliver the children of Ammon into mine hands,
Psalms 66:13-1441 votes
I will go into thy house with burnt offerings: I will pay thee my vows,
Psalms 61:837 votes
So will I sing praise unto thy name for ever, that I may daily perform my vows.
Ecclesiastes 5:527 votes
Better is it that thou shouldest not vow, than that thou shouldest vow and not pay.
Acts 5:1-1127 votes
But a certain man named Ananias, with Sapphira his wife, sold a possession,
Deuteronomy 23:2322 votes
That which is gone out of thy lips thou shalt keep and perform; even a freewill offering, according as thou hast vowed unto the Lord thy God, which thou hast promised with thy mouth.
Leviticus 27:1-3421 votes
And the Lord spake unto Moses, saying,
Numbers 30:1-1620 votes
And Moses spake unto the heads of the tribes concerning the children of Israel, saying, This is the thing which the Lord hath commanded.
Matthew 12:3619 votes
But I say unto you, That every idle word that men shall speak, they shall give account thereof in the day of judgment.
Matthew 5:3318 votes
Again, ye have heard that it hath been said by them of old time, Thou shalt not forswear thyself, but shalt perform unto the Lord thine oaths:
Psalms 15:417 votes
In whose eyes a vile person is contemned; but he honoureth them that fear the Lord. He that sweareth to his own hurt, and changeth not.
What does the Bible say about keeping vows?
Readers most often cite Numbers 30:2 on the subject of keeping vows. Across 1,859 votes, 25 passages are commonly cited for this topic, including Deuteronomy 23:21-23, Matthew 5:33-37, Psalms 76:11. This page lists all 25 in ranked order, quoted in the King James Version, with each linked to its cross-references.