Proverbs 23:1

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When you sit down to dine with a ruler, carefully consider what is before you.

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  • Gen 43:32-34 : 32 They served Joseph separately, the brothers separately, and the Egyptians who ate with him separately, because Egyptians could not eat with Hebrews, for that was detestable to them. 33 The men were seated before him in order of their ages, from the firstborn to the youngest, and they looked at each other in astonishment. 34 Joseph sent portions from his table to them, but Benjamin's portion was five times as much as anyone else's. So they feasted and drank freely with him.
  • Jude 1:12 : 12 These are hidden reefs in your love feasts, feasting with you fearlessly, shepherding only themselves. They are waterless clouds, carried along by the winds; autumn trees without fruit, twice dead, uprooted.

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  • Prov 23:2-3
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    2Place a knife to your throat if you are a person given to appetite.

    3Do not crave his delicacies, for they are deceptive food.

  • Prov 23:6-8
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    73%

    6Do not eat the bread of a stingy person, nor crave his delicacies.

    7For as he thinks within himself, so is he. He says to you, 'Eat and drink,' but his heart is not with you.

    8You will vomit up the morsel you have eaten and waste your pleasant words.

  • Luke 14:7-10
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    72%

    7When Jesus noticed how the guests chose the places of honor, he told them this parable:

    8'When you are invited to a wedding feast, do not sit in the place of honor, in case someone more distinguished than you has been invited by the host.'

    9'Then the host who invited both of you will come and say to you, ‘Give this person your seat.’ And humiliated, you will have to take the least important place.'

    10'But when you are invited, go and sit in the lowest place, so that when your host comes, he will say to you, ‘Friend, move up to a better place.’ Then you will be honored in the presence of all the other guests.'

  • Prov 25:6-8
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    6Do not exalt yourself in the king's presence or stand in the place of the great.

    7For it is better to be told, 'Come up here,' than to be humiliated in the presence of a nobleman whom your eyes have seen.

    8Do not go hastily to court, lest you do something in the end that leaves you humiliated when your neighbor puts you to shame.

  • Prov 30:22
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    22A servant who becomes king, a fool who is filled with food,

  • Eccl 8:2-3
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    2I advise you to obey the king's command and stay true to your oath made before God.

    3Do not be quick to leave the king’s presence, and do not insist on an evil matter, for the king will do whatever he pleases.

  • Prov 23:19-20
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    19Listen, my son, and be wise, and guide your heart on the right path.

    20Do not be among heavy drinkers of wine or gluttons of meat.

  • Eccl 10:16-17
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    16Woe to you, O land, whose king is a youth and whose princes feast in the morning.

    17Blessed are you, O land, whose king is the son of nobles, and whose princes eat at the proper time—for strength and not for drunkenness.

  • Deut 12:25
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    25Do not eat it, so that it may go well with you and your children after you, because you will be doing what is right in the eyes of the Lord.

  • Prov 28:21
    69%

    21To show partiality is not good, yet for a piece of bread, a man will transgress.

  • Deut 8:12
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    12Otherwise, when you have eaten and are satisfied, and have built fine houses and settled in them,

  • Prov 27:23
    68%

    23Know well the condition of your flocks, and give attention to your herds.

  • Prov 22:29
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    29Do you see someone skilled in their work? They will serve before kings; they will not serve before obscure people.

  • Prov 24:23
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    23These also belong to the wise: showing partiality in judgment is not good.

  • Eccl 7:21
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    21Do not pay attention to every word people say, or you may hear your servant cursing you.

  • Deut 8:10
    68%

    10You will eat and be satisfied, and you will bless the Lord your God for the good land He has given you.

  • Prov 24:21
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    21Fear the LORD, my son, as well as the king, and do not associate with rebels.

  • Isa 21:5
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    5Prepare the table, set a watchman in the watchtower, eat and drink. Rise up, you princes, and anoint the shield!

  • Luke 22:27
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    27For who is greater, the one who reclines at the table or the one who serves? Is it not the one who reclines at the table? But I am among you as the one who serves.

  • Eccl 5:1
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    1Do not be hasty with your mouth, and do not let your heart rush to speak anything before God, for God is in heaven and you are on earth. Therefore, let your words be few.

  • 2 Chr 19:6
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    6He said to the judges, 'Consider carefully what you do, because you are not judging for mere mortals, but for the LORD, who is with you whenever you give a judgment.'

  • Exod 25:30
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    30Place the bread of the Presence on the table before Me continually.

  • Prov 29:12
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    12If a ruler listens to falsehood, all his officials become wicked.

  • Prov 19:10
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    10Luxury is not fitting for a fool, much less for a servant to rule over princes.

  • Luke 22:30
    67%

    30so that you may eat and drink at my table in my kingdom and sit on thrones, judging the twelve tribes of Israel.

  • Dan 1:13
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    13Then compare our appearance with that of the other youths who are eating the royal food, and deal with your servants according to what you see.

  • Deut 12:18-19
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    18Instead, you are to eat these in the presence of the Lord your God, at the place the Lord your God will choose—you, your son and daughter, your male and female servants, and the Levite within your gates. Rejoice before the Lord your God in everything you undertake.

    19Be careful not to neglect the Levite as long as you live in your land.

  • Jer 16:8
    66%

    8Do not enter a house where feasting is taking place to sit with them, to eat and drink.

  • 1 Cor 11:33
    66%

    33So then, my brothers and sisters, when you gather to eat, wait for one another.

  • Jer 22:15
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    15Do you think you are a king because you compete in cedar? Your father ate and drank, but he practiced justice and righteousness, and it went well with him.

  • Luke 14:15
    66%

    15When one of those reclining at the table with him heard this, he said to Jesus, 'Blessed is the one who will eat at the feast in the kingdom of God.'

  • Eccl 10:4-5
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    4If the anger of a ruler rises against you, do not abandon your post, for calmness can lay great offenses to rest.

    5There is an evil I have seen under the sun, an error that proceeds from a ruler:

  • 1 Cor 10:27
    66%

    27If an unbeliever invites you to a meal and you want to go, eat whatever is placed before you without raising questions of conscience.

  • Luke 17:8
    66%

    8Instead, won't he say to him, ‘Prepare my dinner, make yourself ready and serve me while I eat and drink; after that, you may eat and drink’?