Proverbs 23:6

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

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  • Ps 141:4 : 4 Do 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.
  • Deut 15:9 : 9 Be careful not to harbor this wicked thought in your heart: 'The seventh year, the year of release, is near,' and you look grudgingly on your poor brother and give him nothing. He will cry out to the Lord against you, and you will be guilty of sin.
  • Prov 23:3 : 3 Do not crave his delicacies, for they are deceptive food.
  • Dan 1:8-9 : 8 But Daniel resolved in his heart not to defile himself with the royal food or wine. So he requested permission from the chief official not to defile himself. 9 God caused the chief official to show favor and compassion toward Daniel. 10 But the chief official said to Daniel, 'I fear my lord the king, who has assigned your food and drink. Why should he see you looking worse than the other youths your age? You would endanger my life before the king.'
  • Prov 22:9 : 9 The generous person will be blessed, for they share their food with the poor.
  • Deut 28:56 : 56 The most tender and delicate woman among you, so refined that she would not venture to set the sole of her foot on the ground, will begrudge the husband she loves, her son, and her daughter.
  • Matt 20:15 : 15 'Don't I have the right to do what I want with my own money? Or are you envious because I am generous?'
  • Mark 7:22 : 22 adulteries, greed, wickedness, deceit, lewdness, envy, slander, arrogance, and foolishness.
  • Prov 28:22 : 22 A man with an evil eye hastens after wealth and does not consider that poverty will come upon him.

Similar Verses (AI)

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  • Prov 23:1-5
    5 verses
    83%

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

    2Place a knife to your throat if you are a person given to appetite.

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

    4Do not wear yourself out trying to become rich; stop relying on your own understanding.

    5Will you fix your eyes on wealth only for it to vanish? For it makes itself wings and flies away like an eagle toward the heavens.

  • Prov 28:21-22
    2 verses
    78%

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

    22A man with an evil eye hastens after wealth and does not consider that poverty will come upon him.

  • Prov 23:7-8
    2 verses
    78%

    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 22:9
    76%

    9The generous person will be blessed, for they share their food with the poor.

  • Prov 24:1
    75%

    1Do not envy wicked people or desire to be with them.

  • Ps 141:4
    74%

    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.

  • Deut 12:25
    73%

    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 6:30
    72%

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

  • Prov 6:25
    72%

    25Do not desire her beauty in your heart, and do not let her captivate you with her eyes.

  • Deut 15:9
    72%

    9Be careful not to harbor this wicked thought in your heart: 'The seventh year, the year of release, is near,' and you look grudgingly on your poor brother and give him nothing. He will cry out to the Lord against you, and you will be guilty of sin.

  • Prov 20:13
    72%

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

  • Lev 25:37
    72%

    37You must not lend them money at interest or sell them food for profit.

  • Eccl 6:2
    72%

    2God gives a man wealth, possessions, and honor, so that he lacks nothing his heart desires. Yet God does not enable him to enjoy them, but instead a foreigner eats them. This is meaningless and a grievous misfortune.

  • Matt 6:23
    71%

    23But if your eye is unhealthy, your whole body will be full of darkness. If then the light within you is darkness, how great is that darkness!

  • Prov 24:18-19
    2 verses
    71%

    18Otherwise, the LORD will see and disapprove, and He may turn His anger away from them.

    19Do not fret because of evildoers, and do not envy the wicked.

  • Prov 21:10
    71%

    10The soul of the wicked desires evil; his neighbor finds no favor in his eyes.

  • Prov 3:31
    71%

    31Do not envy a violent man or choose any of his ways.

  • Prov 30:8
    71%

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

  • Prov 21:26
    71%

    26All day long they crave and crave, but the righteous give and do not hold back.

  • Prov 28:27
    70%

    27Whoever gives to the poor will lack nothing, but one who hides his eyes will receive many curses.

  • Ezek 18:15
    70%

    15He does not eat at the mountain shrines or lift his eyes to the idols of Israel. He does not defile his neighbor’s wife.

  • Lev 22:25
    70%

    25You must not accept such animals from the hand of a foreigner to offer as the food of your God. They are deformed and have defects; they will not be accepted on your behalf.

  • Prov 25:17
    70%

    17Seldom set foot in your neighbor’s house, lest he become weary of you and hate you.

  • Prov 4:17
    70%

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

  • Prov 13:25
    70%

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

  • Hab 2:9
    70%

    9Woe to the one who gains unjust wealth for his house, to set his nest on high, to be safe from the reach of calamity!

  • Job 33:20
    70%

    20Their life begins to loathe food, and their soul rejects even the most desirable meal.

  • Deut 8:12
    70%

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

  • Prov 23:20
    70%

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

  • Job 22:7
    70%

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

  • Ezek 24:22
    70%

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

  • Prov 20:17
    70%

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

  • Exod 23:8
    69%

    8Do not accept a bribe, for a bribe blinds those who see and twists the words of the righteous.

  • Ps 73:7
    69%

    7Their eyes bulge from fatness; their imaginations overflow with malice.

  • Deut 28:54
    69%

    54Even the most tender and refined man among you will begrudge his brother, the wife he embraces, and the rest of his children who are still alive.

  • Deut 14:3
    69%

    3You shall not eat any detestable thing.

  • Rom 14:16
    69%

    16Therefore, do not let what you know is good be spoken of as evil.

  • Matt 6:19
    69%

    19Do not store up for yourselves treasures on earth, where moths and rust destroy, and where thieves break in and steal.

  • Exod 23:3
    69%

    3Do not show partiality to a poor person in his lawsuit.

  • Isa 55:2
    69%

    2Why spend money on what is not bread, and your labor on what does not satisfy? Listen carefully to me, and eat what is good, and your soul will delight in the richest of food.