Proverbs 9:17

Bible in Basic English (1941)

Drink taken without right is sweet, and food in secret is pleasing.

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Referenced Verses

  • Prov 20:17 : 17 Bread of deceit is sweet to a man; but after, his mouth will be full of sand.
  • Prov 23:31-32 : 31 Keep your eyes from looking on the wine when it is red, when its colour is bright in the cup, when it goes smoothly down: 32 In the end, its bite is like that of a snake, its wound like the wound of a poison-snake.
  • Prov 30:20 : 20 This is the way of a false wife; she takes food, and, cleaning her mouth, says, I have done no wrong.
  • Rom 7:8 : 8 But sin, taking its chance through that which was ordered by the law, was working in me every form of desire: because without the law sin is dead.
  • Eph 5:12 : 12 For the things which are done by them in secret it is shame even to put into words.
  • Jas 1:14-15 : 14 But every man is tested when he is turned out of the right way by the attraction of his desire. 15 Then when its time comes, desire gives birth to sin; and sin, when it is of full growth, gives birth to death.
  • Gen 3:6 : 6 And when the woman saw that the tree was good for food, and a delight to the eyes, and to be desired to make one wise, she took of its fruit, and gave it to her husband.
  • 2 Kgs 5:24-27 : 24 When he came to the hill, he took them from their hands, and put them away in the house; and he sent the men away, and they went. 25 Then he came in and took his place before his master. And Elisha said to him, Where have you come from, Gehazi? And he said, Your servant went nowhere. 26 And he said to him, Did not my heart go with you, when the man got down from his carriage and went back to you? Is this a time for getting money, and clothing, and olive-gardens and vine-gardens, and sheep and oxen, and men-servants and women-servants? 27 Because of what you have done, the disease of Naaman the leper will take you in its grip, and your seed after you, for ever. And he went out from before him a leper as white as snow.
  • Prov 7:18-20 : 18 Come, let us take our pleasure in love till the morning, having joy in love's delights. 19 For the master of the house is away on a long journey: 20 He has taken a bag of money with him; he is coming back at the full moon.

Similar Verses (AI)

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

  • Prov 9:18
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    18But he does not see that the dead are there, that her guests are in the deep places of the underworld.

  • Prov 9:16
    76%

    16Whoever is simple, let him come in here: and to him who is without sense, she says:

  • Prov 9:4-5
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    4Whoever is simple, let him come in here; and to him who has no sense, she says:

    5Come, take of my bread, and of my wine which is mixed.

  • Prov 27:7
    74%

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

  • Prov 6:30
    73%

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

  • Job 20:12
    72%

    12Though evil-doing is sweet in his mouth, and he keeps it secretly under his tongue;

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

  • Prov 23:3
    72%

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

  • Prov 24:13
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    13My son, take honey, for it is good; and the flowing honey, which is sweet to your taste:

  • Prov 6:26
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    26For a loose woman is looking for a cake of bread, but another man's wife goes after one's very life.

  • Prov 23:6-8
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    70%

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

    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.

  • Ps 119:103
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    103How sweet are your sayings to my taste! truly, they are sweeter than honey in my mouth!

  • Prov 25:16
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    16If 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.

  • Prov 30:20
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    20This is the way of a false wife; she takes food, and, cleaning her mouth, says, I have done no wrong.

  • Prov 5:3-4
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    3For honey is dropping from the lips of the strange woman, and her mouth is smoother than oil;

    4But her end is bitter as wormwood, and sharp as a two-edged sword;

  • Ps 19:10
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    10More to be desired are they than gold, even than much shining gold; sweeter than the dropping honey.

  • Prov 5:15
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    15Let water from your store and not that of others be your drink, and running water from your fountain.

  • Job 31:27
    69%

    27A secret feeling of worship came into my heart, and my hand gave kisses from my mouth;

  • Prov 13:2
    69%

    2A man will get good from the fruit of his lips, but the desire of the false is for violent acts.

  • Prov 1:13
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    13Goods of great price will be ours, our houses will be full of wealth;

  • Prov 3:17
    68%

    17Her ways are ways of delight, and all her goings are peace.

  • Prov 2:10
    68%

    10For wisdom will come into your heart, and knowledge will be pleasing to your soul;

  • Prov 16:24
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    24Pleasing words are like honey, sweet to the soul and new life to the bones.

  • Prov 13:19
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    19To get one's desire is sweet to the soul, but to give up evil is disgusting to the foolish.

  • Prov 18:4
    68%

    4The words of a man's mouth are like deep waters: the fountain of wisdom is like a flowing stream.

  • Prov 5:19-20
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    68%

    19As a loving hind and a gentle doe, let her breasts ever give you rapture; let your passion at all times be moved by her love.

    20Why let yourself, my son, go out of the way with a strange woman, and take another woman in your arms?

  • Prov 1:11
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    11If they say, Come with us; let us make designs against the good, waiting secretly for the upright, without cause;

  • Prov 17:23
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    23A sinner takes an offering out of his robe, to get a decision for himself in a cause.

  • Job 34:3
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    3For words are tested by the ear, as food is tasted by the mouth.

  • Prov 22:18
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    18For it is a delight to keep them in your heart, to have them ready on your lips.

  • Job 24:19
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    19Snow waters become dry with the heat: so do sinners go down into the underworld.

  • Prov 7:18
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    18Come, let us take our pleasure in love till the morning, having joy in love's delights.

  • Prov 1:19
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    19Such is the fate of everyone who goes in search of profit; it takes away the life of its owners.

  • Eccl 11:1
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    1Put out your bread on the face of the waters; for after a long time it will come back to you again.

  • Prov 21:17
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    17The lover of pleasure will be a poor man: the lover of wine and oil will not get wealth.

  • Prov 21:14
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    14By a secret offering wrath is turned away, and the heat of angry feelings by money in the folds of the robe.

  • Prov 29:24
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    24A man who takes part with a thief has hate for his soul; he is put under oath, but says nothing.

  • Prov 19:8
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    8He who gets wisdom has love for his soul: he who keeps good sense will get what is truly good.

  • Prov 17:1
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    1Better a bit of dry bread in peace, than a house full of feasting and violent behaviour.

  • Prov 27:16
    67%

    16He who keeps secret the secret of his friend, will get himself a name for good faith.

  • Job 22:7
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    7You do not give water to the tired traveller, and from him who has no food you keep back bread.

  • Obad 1:6
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    6How are the things of Esau searched out! how are his secret stores looked for!

  • Prov 2:16
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    16To take you out of the power of the strange woman, who says smooth words with her tongue;