Proverbs 23:6

Bible in Basic English (1941)

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

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  • 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.
  • Deut 15:9 : 9 And see that there is no evil thought in your heart, moving you to say to yourself, The seventh year, the year of forgiveness is near; and so looking coldly on your poor countryman you give him nothing; and he will make an outcry to the Lord against you, and it will be judged as sin in you.
  • Prov 23:3 : 3 Have no desire for his delicate food, for it is the bread of deceit.
  • Dan 1:8-9 : 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. 9 And God put into the heart of the captain of the unsexed servants kind feelings and pity for Daniel. 10 And the captain of the unsexed servants said to Daniel, I am in fear of my lord the king, who has given orders about your food and your drink; what if he sees you looking less happy than the other young men of your generation? then you would have put my head in danger from the king.
  • Prov 22:9 : 9 He who is kind will have a blessing, for he gives of his bread to the poor.
  • Deut 28:56 : 56 The most soft and delicate of your women, who would not so much as put her foot on the earth, so delicate is she, will be hard-hearted to her husband and to her son and to her daughter;
  • Matt 20:15 : 15 Have I not the right to do as seems good to me in my house? or is your eye evil, because I am good?
  • Mark 7:22 : 22 The taking of goods and of life, broken faith between husband and wife, the desire of wealth, wrongdoing, deceit, sins of the flesh, an evil eye, angry words, pride, foolish acts:
  • Prov 28:22 : 22 He who is ever desiring wealth goes running after money, and does not see that need will come on him.

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  • Prov 23:1-5
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    1When you take your seat at the feast with a ruler, give thought with care to what is before you;

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

    3Have no desire for his delicate food, for it is the bread of deceit.

    4Take no care to get wealth; let there be an end to your desire for money.

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

  • Prov 28:21-22
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    78%

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

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

  • Prov 23:7-8
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    78%

    7For 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.

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

  • Prov 22:9
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    9He who is kind will have a blessing, for he gives of his bread to the poor.

  • Prov 24:1
    75%

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

  • Ps 141:4
    74%

    4Keep 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.

  • Deut 12:25
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    25Do 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.

  • Prov 6:30
    72%

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

  • Prov 6:25
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    25Let not your heart's desire go after her fair body; let not her eyes take you prisoner.

  • Deut 15:9
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    9And see that there is no evil thought in your heart, moving you to say to yourself, The seventh year, the year of forgiveness is near; and so looking coldly on your poor countryman you give him nothing; and he will make an outcry to the Lord against you, and it will be judged as sin in you.

  • Prov 20:13
    72%

    13Do not be a lover of sleep, or you will become poor: keep your eyes open, and you will have bread enough.

  • Lev 25:37
    72%

    37Do not take interest on the money which you let him have or on the food which you give him.

  • Eccl 6:2
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    2A man to whom God gives money, wealth, and honour so that he has all his desires but God does not give him the power to have joy of it, and a strange man takes it. This is to no purpose and an evil disease.

  • Matt 6:23
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    23But if your eye is evil, all your body will be dark. If then the light which is in you is dark, how dark it will be!

  • Prov 24:18-19
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    71%

    18For fear that the Lord may see it, and it may be evil in his eyes, and his wrath may be turned away from him.

    19Do not be troubled because of evil-doers, or have envy of sinners:

  • Prov 21:10
    71%

    10The desire of the evil-doer is fixed on evil: he has no kind feeling for his neighbour.

  • Prov 3:31
    71%

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

  • Prov 30:8
    71%

    8Put 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:

  • Prov 21:26
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    26All the day the sinner goes after his desire: but the upright man gives freely, keeping nothing back.

  • Prov 28:27
    70%

    27He who gives to the poor will never be in need, but great curses will be on him who gives no attention to them.

  • Ezek 18:15
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    15Who has not taken the flesh with the blood for food, or given worship to the images of the children of Israel, and has not had connection with his neighbour's wife,

  • Lev 22:25
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    25And from one who is not an Israelite you may not take any of these for an offering to the Lord; for they are unclean, there is a mark on them, and the Lord will not be pleased with them.

  • Prov 25:17
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    17Let 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 4:17
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    17The bread of evil-doing is their food, the wine of violent acts their drink.

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

  • Hab 2:9
    70%

    9A curse on him who gets evil profits for his family, so that he may put his resting-place on high and be safe from the hand of the wrongdoer!

  • Job 33:20
    70%

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

  • Deut 8:12
    70%

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

  • Prov 23:20
    70%

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

  • Job 22:7
    70%

    7You do not give water to the tired traveller, and from him who has no food you keep back bread.

  • Ezek 24:22
    70%

    22And you will do as I have done, not covering your lips or taking the food of those in grief.

  • Prov 20:17
    70%

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

  • Exod 23:8
    69%

    8Take no rewards in a cause: for rewards make blind those who have eyes to see, and make the decisions of the upright false.

  • Ps 73:7
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    7Their eyes are bursting with fat; they have more than their heart's desire.

  • Deut 28:54
    69%

    54That man among you who is soft and used to comfort will be hard and cruel to his brother, and to his dear wife, and to of those his children who are still living;

  • Deut 14:3
    69%

    3No disgusting thing may be your food.

  • Rom 14:16
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    16Let it not be possible for men to say evil about your good:

  • Matt 6:19
    69%

    19Make no store of wealth for yourselves on earth, where it may be turned to dust by worms and weather, and where thieves may come in by force and take it away.

  • Exod 23:3
    69%

    3But, on the other hand, do not be turned from what is right in order to give support to a poor man's cause.

  • Isa 55:2
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    2Why 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.