Proverbs 9:17

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Stolen water is sweet, and food eaten in secret is delicious.

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  • Prov 20:17 : 17 Food gained by deceit is sweet to a person, but afterward their mouth is full of gravel.
  • Prov 23:31-32 : 31 Do not look at wine when it is red, when it sparkles in the cup and goes down smoothly. 32 In the end, it bites like a snake and poisons like a viper.
  • Prov 30:20 : 20 This is the way of an adulterous woman: she eats, wipes her mouth, and says, 'I have done nothing wrong.'
  • Rom 7:8 : 8 But sin, seizing the opportunity provided by the commandment, produced in me every kind of coveting. For apart from the law, sin was dead.
  • Eph 5:12 : 12 For it is shameful even to speak of what they do in secret.
  • Jas 1:14-15 : 14 But each person is tempted when they are drawn away and enticed by their own desire. 15 Then, after desire has conceived, it gives birth to sin; and when sin is fully grown, it gives birth to death.
  • Gen 3:6 : 6 So when the woman saw that the tree was good for food, and that it was a delight to the eyes, and the tree was desirable to make one wise, she took of its fruit and ate. She also gave some to her husband, who was with her, and he ate.
  • 2 Kgs 5:24-27 : 24 When Gehazi came to the hill, he took the gifts from the servants and stored them inside the house. Then he sent the men away, and they left. 25 When Gehazi went inside and stood before his master, Elisha asked him, 'Where have you been, Gehazi?' He answered, 'Your servant didn’t go anywhere.' 26 But Elisha said to him, 'Was my spirit not with you when the man got down from his chariot to meet you? Is this the time to take money or accept clothes, olive groves, vineyards, sheep, cattle, male servants, and female servants?' 27 Naaman’s leprosy will cling to you and to your descendants forever.' Then Gehazi went out from Elisha's presence, leprous, as white as snow.
  • Prov 7:18-20 : 18 'Come, let us drink our fill of love until morning; let us delight ourselves with loving caresses.' 19 'For my husband is not at home; he has gone on a long journey.' 20 'He took a bag of silver with him and will not return home until the full moon.'

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

  • Prov 9:18
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    18But they do not know that the dead are there, that her guests are in the depths of Sheol.

  • Prov 9:16
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  • Prov 9:4-5
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    4"Whoever is simple, let them turn in here! To those who lack understanding, she says:

    5Come, eat my bread and drink the wine I have mixed.

  • Prov 27:7
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    7A satisfied soul tramples on honey, but to a hungry soul, every bitter thing is sweet.

  • Prov 6:30
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    30Men do not despise a thief if he steals to satisfy his hunger when he is starving.

  • Job 20:12
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    12Though evil tastes sweet in his mouth and he hides it under his tongue,

  • Prov 4:17
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    17They eat the bread of wickedness and drink the wine of violence.

  • Prov 23:3
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    3Do not crave his delicacies, for they are deceptive food.

  • Prov 24:13
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    13Eat honey, my son, for it is good; and the honeycomb, which is sweet to your taste.

  • 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 23:6-8
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    6Do not eat the bread of a stingy person, nor crave his delicacies.

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

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

  • Prov 30:20
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    20This is the way of an adulterous woman: she eats, wipes her mouth, and says, 'I have done nothing wrong.'

  • Prov 5:3-4
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    3For the lips of a forbidden woman drip honey, and her speech is smoother than oil.

    4But in the end, she is as bitter as wormwood, sharp as a double-edged sword.

  • Ps 19:10
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    10The fear of the LORD is pure, enduring forever; the judgments of the LORD are true, and altogether righteous.

  • Prov 5:15
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    15Drink water from your own cistern, flowing water from your own well.

  • Job 31:27
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    27and my heart was secretly enticed, and my hand offered them a kiss in worship,

  • Prov 13:2
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    2From the fruit of their lips, people enjoy good things, but the appetite of the treacherous desires violence.

  • Prov 1:13
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    13We will find all kinds of precious wealth; we will fill our houses with plunder.

  • Prov 3:17
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    17Her ways are ways of pleasantness, and all her paths are peace.

  • Prov 2:10
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    10For wisdom will enter your heart, and knowledge will be pleasant to your soul.

  • Prov 16:24
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    24Pleasant words are a honeycomb, sweet to the soul and healing to the bones.

  • Prov 13:19
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    19A longing fulfilled is sweet to the soul, but fools detest turning from evil.

  • Prov 18:4
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    4The words of a person's mouth are like deep waters; the fountain of wisdom is like a flowing stream.

  • Prov 5:19-20
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    19A loving doe, a graceful deer—may her breasts satisfy you always, and may you always be captivated by her love.

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    23The wicked accept a bribe in secret to pervert the ways of justice.

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    18'Come, let us drink our fill of love until morning; let us delight ourselves with loving caresses.'

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    19Such are the ways of everyone who gains unjust profit; it takes away the life of its owners.

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    1Send your bread upon the waters, for in many days you will find it again.

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    17Whoever loves pleasure will become poor; whoever loves wine and oil will not become rich.

  • Prov 21:14
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    16Trying to restrain her is like restraining the wind or grasping oil with the hand.

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    6How Esau has been pillaged; his hidden treasures sought out!

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    16It will save you from the wayward woman, from the foreign woman with her flattering words,