Proverbs 23:2

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Place a knife to your throat if you are a person given to appetite.

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  • Matt 18:8-9 : 8 If your hand or your foot causes you to stumble, cut it off and throw it away. It is better for you to enter life crippled or lame than to have two hands or two feet and be thrown into eternal fire. 9 And if your eye causes you to stumble, gouge it out and throw it away. It is better for you to enter life with one eye than to have two eyes and be thrown into the fire of hell.
  • 1 Cor 9:27 : 27 Rather, I discipline my body and bring it under control, so that after preaching to others, I myself will not be disqualified.
  • Phil 3:19 : 19 Their end is destruction, their god is their appetite, and their glory is in their shame. Their minds are set on earthly things.

Similar Verses (AI)

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  • Prov 23:1
    80%

    1When you sit down to dine with a ruler, carefully consider what is before you.

  • Prov 23:3
    79%

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

  • Prov 23:6-8
    3 verses
    74%

    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.

  • Prov 23:19-21
    3 verses
    73%

    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.

    21For the drunkard and the glutton will become poor, and drowsiness will clothe them in rags.

  • Prov 13:2-3
    2 verses
    71%

    2From the fruit of their lips, people enjoy good things, but the appetite of the treacherous desires violence.

    3Whoever guards his mouth preserves his life; one who opens wide his lips comes to ruin.

  • Ps 141:4
    70%

    4Do not let my heart incline to an evil thing, to practice wicked deeds with those who do iniquity, and let me not eat of their delicacies.

  • 1 Sam 2:16
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    16And if the man said to him, ‘Let the fat be burned first, and then take whatever you want,’ the servant would reply, ‘No, give it to me now! If you don’t, I’ll take it by force.’

  • Mic 6:14
    69%

    14You will eat but not be satisfied, and your emptiness will remain within you. You will store up but not save, and what you do save, I will give over to the sword.

  • Prov 25:16
    69%

    16If you find honey, eat only as much as you need, lest you eat too much of it and vomit.

  • Ezek 2:8
    69%

    8But you, son of man, listen to what I say to you. Do not be rebellious like this rebellious house. Open your mouth and eat what I am giving you.

  • Prov 13:25
    69%

    25The righteous eat to their heart's content, but the stomach of the wicked goes hungry.

  • Deut 12:23
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    23But be sure you do not eat the blood, because the blood is the life, and you must not eat the life with the meat.

  • Prov 4:24
    69%

    24Put away from you a deceitful mouth, and keep corrupt speech far from you.

  • Prov 30:32
    68%

    32If you have acted foolishly by exalting yourself, or if you have devised evil, put your hand over your mouth.

  • Eccl 6:7
    68%

    7All human toil is for their mouth, yet their appetite is never satisfied.

  • Deut 12:25
    68%

    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.

  • Isa 1:20
    68%

    20But if you refuse and rebel, you will be devoured by the sword, for the mouth of the LORD has spoken.

  • Ezek 24:22
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    22You shall do as I have done; you shall not cover your lips nor eat the bread of mourning.

  • Prov 6:30
    68%

    30Men do not despise a thief if he steals to satisfy his hunger when he is starving.

  • Prov 25:21
    68%

    21If your enemy is hungry, give him food to eat; if he is thirsty, give him water to drink.

  • Eccl 4:5
    68%

    5The fool folds his hands and ruins himself.

  • Prov 30:8
    68%

    8Keep falsehood and lies far from me; give me neither poverty nor riches, but give me only my daily bread.

  • Prov 22:18
    68%

    18For it is pleasant when you keep them within you; they will be ready on your lips all together.

  • Prov 6:26
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    26For a prostitute reduces you to a loaf of bread, but the wife of another man hunts a precious life.

  • Prov 18:21
    68%

    21Death and life are in the power of the tongue, and those who love it will eat its fruit.

  • Job 22:7
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    7You have not given water to the weary to drink, and you have withheld bread from the hungry.

  • Ps 34:13
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    13Who is the person who desires life and loves many days to see good?

  • 1 Sam 12:25
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    25But if you persist in doing evil, both you and your king will be swept away.

  • Prov 24:11
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    11Rescue those being taken to death and hold back those stumbling toward slaughter, if you can.

  • Exod 21:14
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    14However, if someone schemes and acts deliberately to kill his neighbor, you shall take him even from my altar to be put to death.

  • Deut 12:20
    67%

    20When the Lord your God enlarges your territory as He has promised, and you say, 'I want to eat meat,' because you desire to eat it, you may eat it whenever you desire.

  • Prov 28:21
    67%

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

  • Job 36:17
    67%

    17But you are full of the judgment on the wicked; justice and judgment take hold of you.

  • Prov 1:10
    67%

    10My son, if sinners entice you, do not consent.

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

  • Prov 6:21
    67%

    21Bind them always upon your heart; tie them around your neck.

  • Prov 20:17
    67%

    17Food gained by deceit is sweet to a person, but afterward their mouth is full of gravel.

  • Prov 4:17
    67%

    17They eat the bread of wickedness and drink the wine of violence.

  • Prov 30:22
    67%

    22A servant who becomes king, a fool who is filled with food,

  • Eccl 8:2
    67%

    2I advise you to obey the king's command and stay true to your oath made before God.

  • Prov 5:2
    67%

    2So you may preserve discretion, and your lips may guard knowledge.

  • Prov 20:13
    67%

    13Do not love sleep, lest you become poor; open your eyes, and you will have plenty of bread.

  • Deut 8:12
    67%

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

  • Ps 52:2
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    2When Doeg the Edomite came and reported to Saul, saying, 'David has gone to the house of Ahimelech.'