Proverbs 23:3

Bible in Basic English (1941)

Have no desire for his delicate food, for it is the bread of deceit.

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Referenced Verses

  • Prov 23:6 : 6 Do not take the food of him who has an evil eye, or have any desire for his delicate meat:
  • Ps 141:4 : 4 Keep my heart from desiring any evil thing, or from taking part in the sins of the evil-doers with men who do wrong: and let me have no part in their good things.
  • Dan 1:8 : 8 And Daniel had come to the decision that he would not make himself unclean with the king's food or wine; so he made a request to the captain of the unsexed servants that he might not make himself unclean.
  • Luke 21:34 : 34 But give attention to yourselves, for fear that your hearts become over-full of the pleasures of food and wine, and the cares of this life, and that day may come on you suddenly, and take you as in a net:
  • Eph 4:22 : 22 That you are to put away, in relation to your earlier way of life, the old man, which has become evil by love of deceit;

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  • Prov 23:4-8
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    4 Take no care to get wealth; let there be an end to your desire for money.

    5 Are your eyes lifted up to it? it is gone: for wealth takes to itself wings, like an eagle in flight up to heaven.

    6 Do not take the food of him who has an evil eye, or have any desire for his delicate meat:

    7 For as the thoughts of his heart are, so is he: Take food and drink, he says to you; but his heart is not with you.

    8 The food which you have taken will come up again, and your pleasing words will be wasted.

  • Prov 23:1-2
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    1 When you take your seat at the feast with a ruler, give thought with care to what is before you;

    2 And put a knife to your throat, if you have a strong desire for food.

  • Prov 20:17
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    17 Bread of deceit is sweet to a man; but after, his mouth will be full of sand.

  • Ps 141:4
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    4 Keep my heart from desiring any evil thing, or from taking part in the sins of the evil-doers with men who do wrong: and let me have no part in their good things.

  • Prov 23:20
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    20 Do not be among those who give themselves to wine-drinking, or among those who make themselves full with meat:

  • Prov 30:8-9
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    8 Put far from me all false and foolish things: do not give me great wealth or let me be in need, but give me only enough food:

    9 For fear that if I am full, I may be false to you and say, Who is the Lord? or if I am poor, I may become a thief, using the name of my God wrongly.

  • Prov 24:1
    72%

    1 Have no envy for evil men, or any desire to be with them:

  • Prov 9:17
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    17 Drink taken without right is sweet, and food in secret is pleasing.

  • Ps 78:30
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    30 But they were not turned from their desires; and while the food was still in their mouths,

  • Prov 6:25-26
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    71%

    25 Let not your heart's desire go after her fair body; let not her eyes take you prisoner.

    26 For a loose woman is looking for a cake of bread, but another man's wife goes after one's very life.

  • Job 33:20
    71%

    20 He has no desire for food, and his soul is turned away from delicate meat;

  • Deut 12:25
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    25 Do not take it for food; so that it may be well for you and for your children after you, while you do what is right in the eyes of the Lord.

  • Isa 55:2
    70%

    2 Why do you give your money for what is not bread, and the fruit of your work for what will not give you pleasure? Give ear to me, so that your food may be good, and you may have the best in full measure.

  • Prov 25:16-17
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    16 If you have honey, take only as much as is enough for you; for fear that, being full of it, you may not be able to keep it down.

    17 Let not your foot be frequently in your neighbour's house, or he may get tired of you, and his feeling be turned to hate.

  • Prov 6:30
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    30 Men do not have a low opinion of a thief who takes food when he is in need of it:

  • Prov 28:21-22
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    21 It is not good to have respect for a man's position: for a man will do wrong for a bit of bread.

    22 He who is ever desiring wealth goes running after money, and does not see that need will come on him.

  • Prov 13:25
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    25 The upright man has food to the full measure of his desire, but there will be no food for the stomach of evil-doers.

  • Prov 3:31
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    31 Have no envy of the violent man, or take any of his ways as an example.

  • 1 Tim 6:9
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    9 But those who have a desire for wealth are falling into danger, and are taken as in a net by a number of foolish and damaging desires, through which men are overtaken by death and destruction.

  • Prov 21:6
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    6 He who gets stores of wealth by a false tongue, is going after what is only breath, and searching for death.

  • Rom 16:18
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    18 For such people are not servants of the Lord Christ, but of their stomachs; and by their smooth and well-said words the hearts of those who have no knowledge of evil are tricked.

  • Prov 21:25-26
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    25 The desire of the hater of work is death to him, for his hands will do no work.

    26 All the day the sinner goes after his desire: but the upright man gives freely, keeping nothing back.

  • Ps 36:3
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    3 In the words of his mouth are evil and deceit; he has given up being wise and doing good.

  • Job 15:31
    69%

    31 Let him not put his hope in what is false, falling into error: for he will get deceit as his reward.

  • Prov 27:7
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    7 The full man has no use for honey, but to the man in need of food every bitter thing is sweet.

  • Deut 14:3
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    3 No disgusting thing may be your food.

  • Deut 8:12
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    12 And when you have taken food and are full, and have made fair houses for yourselves and are living in them;

  • Prov 1:10
    68%

    10 My son, if sinners would take you out of the right way, do not go with them.

  • Prov 22:25
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    25 For fear of learning his ways and making a net ready for your soul.

  • Prov 25:27
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    27 It is not good to take much honey: so he who is not looking for honour will be honoured.

  • Prov 20:23
    68%

    23 Unequal weights are disgusting to the Lord, and false scales are not good.

  • Eccl 6:7
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    7 All the work of man is for his mouth, and still he has a desire for food.

  • Prov 13:23
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    23 There is much food in the ploughed land of the poor; but it is taken away by wrongdoing.

  • Prov 19:22
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    22 The ornament of a man is his mercy, and a poor man is better than one who is false.

  • Col 2:23
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    23 These things seem to have a sort of wisdom in self-ordered worship and making little of oneself, and being cruel to the body, not honouring it by giving it its natural use.

  • Prov 15:27
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    27 He whose desires are fixed on profit is a cause of trouble to his family; but he who has no desire for offerings will have life.

  • Ps 78:18
    68%

    18 Testing God in their hearts, requesting meat for their desire.

  • Prov 24:28
    68%

    28 Do not be a violent witness against your neighbour, or let your lips say what is false.