Proverbs 23:2

Geneva Bible (1560)

And put the knife to thy throte, if thou be a man giuen to the appetite.

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Referenced Verses

  • Matt 18:8-9 : 8 Wherefore, if thy hand or thy foote cause thee to offend, cut them off, and cast them from thee: it is better for thee to enter into life, halt, or maimed, then hauing two hands, or two feete, to be cast into euerlasting fire. 9 And if thine eye cause thee to offende, plucke it out, and cast it from thee: it is better for thee to enter into life with one eye, then hauing two eyes to be cast into hell fire.
  • 1 Cor 9:27 : 27 But I beate downe my body, & bring it into subiection, lest by any meanes after that I haue preached to other, I my selfe should be reproued.
  • Phil 3:19 : 19 Whose ende is damnation, whose God is their bellie, and whose glorie is to their shame, which minde earthly things.

Similar Verses (AI)

These verses are found using AI-powered semantic similarity based on meaning and context. Results may occasionally include unexpected connections.

  • Prov 23:1
    80%

    1When thou sittest to eate with a ruler, consider diligently what is before thee,

  • Prov 23:3
    79%

    3Be not desirous of his deintie meates: for it is a deceiuable meate.

  • Prov 23:6-8
    3 verses
    74%

    6Eate thou not the bread of him that hath an euil eye, neither desire his deintie meates.

    7For as though he thought it in his heart, so will hee say vnto thee, Eate and drinke: but his heart is not with thee.

    8Thou shalt vomit thy morsels that thou hast eaten, and thou shalt lose thy sweete wordes.

  • Prov 23:19-21
    3 verses
    73%

    19O thou my sonne, heare, and bee wise, and guide thine heart in the way.

    20Keepe not company with drunkards, nor with gluttons.

    21For the drunkard and the glutton shall bee poore, and the sleeper shalbe clothed with ragges.

  • Prov 13:2-3
    2 verses
    71%

    2A man shall eate good things by the fruite of his mouth: but the soule of the trespassers shall suffer violence.

    3Hee that keepeth his mouth, keepeth his life: but he that openeth his lips, destruction shal be to him.

  • Ps 141:4
    70%

    4Incline not mine heart to euill, that I should commit wicked workes with men that worke iniquitie: and let me not eate of their delicates.

  • 1 Sam 2:16
    69%

    16And if any man saide vnto him, Let them burne the fatte according to the custome, then take as much as thine heart desireth: then hee would answere, No, but thou shalt giue it nowe: and if thou wilt not, I will take it by force.

  • Mic 6:14
    69%

    14Thou shalt eate and not be satisfied, and thy casting downe shall be in the mids of thee, and thou shalt take holde, but shalt not deliuer: and that which thou deliuerest, will I giue vp to the sworde.

  • Prov 25:16
    69%

    16If thou haue found hony, eate that is sufficient for thee, least thou be ouerfull, & vomit it.

  • Ezek 2:8
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    8But thou sonne of man, heare what I say vnto thee: be not thou rebellious, like this rebellious house: open thy mouth, and eate that I giue thee.

  • Prov 13:25
    69%

    25The righteous eateth to the contentation of his minde: but the belly of the wicked shall want.

  • Deut 12:23
    69%

    23Onely bee sure that thou eate not the blood: for the blood is the life, and thou maiest not eate the life with the flesh.

  • Prov 4:24
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    24Put away from thee a froward mouth, and put wicked lippes farre from thee.

  • Prov 30:32
    68%

    32If thou hast bene foolish in lifting thy selfe vp, and if thou hast thought wickedly, lay thine hand vpon thy mouth.

  • Eccl 6:7
    68%

    7All the labour of man is for his mouth: yet the soule is not filled.

  • Deut 12:25
    68%

    25Thou shalt not eat it, that it may go wel with thee; and with thy children after thee, when thou shalt doe that which is right in the sight of the Lord:

  • Isa 1:20
    68%

    20But if ye refuse and be rebellious, ye shalbe deuoured with the sword: for the mouth of the Lord hath spoken it.

  • Ezek 24:22
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    22And ye shall doe as I haue done: ye shall not couer your lippes, neither shall ye eate the bread of men.

  • Prov 6:30
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    30Men do not despise a thiefe, when he stealeth, to satisfie his soule, because he is hungrie.

  • Prov 25:21
    68%

    21If hee that hateth thee be hungry, giue him bread to eate, and if he be thirstie, giue him water to drinke.

  • Eccl 4:5
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    5The foole foldeth his hands, and eateth vp his owne flesh.

  • Prov 30:8
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    8Remooue farre from me vanitie and lyes: giue me not pouertie, nor riches: feede me with foode conuenient for me,

  • Prov 22:18
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    18For it shalbe pleasant, if thou keepe them in thy bellie, and if they be directed together in thy lippes.

  • Prov 6:26
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    26For because of the whorish woman a man is brought to a morsell of bread, and a woman wil hunt for the precious life of a man.

  • Prov 18:21
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    21Death & life are in the power of ye tongue, and they that loue it, shal eate the fruite thereof.

  • Job 22:7
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    7To such as were wearie, thou hast not giuen water to drinke, and hast withdrawen bread from the hungrie.

  • Ps 34:13
    67%

    13Keepe thy tongue from euill, and thy lips, that they speake no guile.

  • 1 Sam 12:25
    67%

    25But if ye doe wickedly, ye shal perish, both yee, and your King.

  • Prov 24:11
    67%

    11Deliuer them that are drawen to death: wilt thou not preserue them that are led to be slaine?

  • Exod 21:14
    67%

    14But if a man come presumptuously vpon his neighbour to slay him with guile, thou shalt take him from mine altar, that he may die.

  • Deut 12:20
    67%

    20When the Lorde thy God shall enlarge thy border, as hee hath promised thee, and thou shalt say, I wil eate flesh, (because thine heart longeth to eate flesh) thou maiest eate flesh, whatsoeuer thine heart desireth.

  • Prov 28:21
    67%

    21To haue respect of persons is not good: for that man will transgresse for a piece of bread.

  • Job 36:17
    67%

    17But thou art ful of the iudgement of the wicked, though iudgement and equitie maintaine all things.

  • Prov 1:10
    67%

    10My sonne, if sinners doe intise thee, consent thou not.

  • Prov 25:6
    67%

    6Boast not thy selfe before the King, and stand not in the place of great men.

  • Prov 6:21
    67%

    21Binde them alway vpon thine heart, and tye them about thy necke.

  • Prov 20:17
    67%

    17The bread of deceit is sweete to a man: but afterward his mouth shalbe filled with grauel.

  • Prov 4:17
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    17For they eate the breade of wickednesse, and drinke the wine of violence.

  • Prov 30:22
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    22For a seruant when he reigneth, & a foole when he is filled with meate,

  • Eccl 8:2
    67%

    2I aduertise thee to take heede to ye mouth of the King, and to the worde of the othe of God.

  • Prov 5:2
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    2That thou maiest regarde counsell, and thy lippes obserue knowledge.

  • Prov 20:13
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    13Loue not sleepe least thou come vnto pouertie: open thine eyes, and thou shalt be satisfied with bread.

  • Deut 8:12
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    12Lest when thou hast eaten and filled thy selfe, and hast built goodly houses & dwelt therein,

  • Ps 52:2
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    2Thy tongue imagineth mischiefe, and is like a sharpe rasor, that cutteth deceitfully.