Proverbs 23:2

KJV1611 – Modern English

And put a knife to your throat, if you are a man given to appetite.

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  • Matt 18:8-9 : 8 Therefore if your hand or your foot offends you, cut them off and cast them from you: it is better for you to enter into life crippled or maimed, rather than having two hands or two feet to be cast into everlasting fire. 9 And if your eye offends you, pluck it out and cast it from you: it is better for you to enter into life with one eye, rather than having two eyes to be cast into hell fire.
  • 1 Cor 9:27 : 27 But I discipline my body and bring it into subjection, lest when I have preached to others, I myself should be disqualified.
  • Phil 3:19 : 19 Whose end is destruction, whose god is their stomach, and whose glory is in their shame, who set their mind on earthly things.

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  • Prov 23:1
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    1When you sit to eat with a ruler, consider diligently what is before you:

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

  • Prov 23:6-8
    3 verses
    74%

    6Do not eat the bread of him who has an evil eye, nor desire his delicacies:

    7For as he thinks in his heart, so is he: "Eat and drink," he says to you; but his heart is not with you.

    8The morsel which you have eaten, you shall vomit up, and lose your sweet words.

  • Prov 23:19-21
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    73%

    19Hear, my son, and be wise, and guide your heart in the way.

    20Do not be among winebibbers, among gluttonous eaters of meat:

    21For the drunkard and the glutton shall come to poverty, and drowsiness shall clothe a man with rags.

  • Prov 13:2-3
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    2A man shall eat well by the fruit of his mouth, but the soul of the transgressors shall eat violence.

    3He who guards his mouth keeps his life, but he who opens wide his lips shall have destruction.

  • Ps 141:4
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    4Do not incline my heart to any evil thing, to practice wicked works with those who do iniquity; and let me not eat of their delicacies.

  • 1 Sam 2:16
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    16And if any man said to him, Let them burn the fat first and then take as much as you want; then he would answer him, No, but you shall give it to me now: and if not, I will take it by force.

  • Mic 6:14
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    14You shall eat, but not be satisfied; hunger shall be in your midst; you shall take hold, but shall not deliver; and what you deliver I will give up to the sword.

  • Prov 25:16
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    16Have you found honey? Eat only as much as you need, lest you be filled with it and vomit.

  • Ezek 2:8
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    8But you, son of man, hear what I say to you; Do not be rebellious like that rebellious house: open your mouth, and eat what I give you.

  • Prov 13:25
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    25The righteous eats to the satisfying of his soul, but the belly of the wicked shall lack.

  • Deut 12:23
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    23Only be sure that you do not eat the blood, for the blood is the life; and you may not eat the life with the meat.

  • Prov 4:24
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    24Put away from you a deceitful mouth, and put perverse lips far from you.

  • Prov 30:32
    68%

    32If you have acted foolishly in exalting yourself, or if you have thought evil, put your hand on your mouth.

  • Eccl 6:7
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    7All the labor of man is for his mouth, and yet his appetite is not satisfied.

  • Deut 12:25
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    25You shall not eat it, that it may go well with you and with your children after you, when you do what is right in the sight of the LORD.

  • Isa 1:20
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    20But if you refuse and rebel, you shall be devoured with the sword: for the mouth of the LORD has spoken it.

  • Ezek 24:22
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    22And you shall do as I have done: you shall not cover your lips, nor eat the bread of men.

  • Prov 6:30
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    30Men do not despise a thief, if he steals to satisfy himself when he is hungry;

  • Prov 25:21
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    21If your enemy is hungry, give him bread to eat; and if he is thirsty, give him water to drink;

  • Eccl 4:5
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    5The fool folds his hands together, and eats his own flesh.

  • Prov 30:8
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    8Remove far from me vanity and lies; give me neither poverty nor riches; feed me with food convenient for me:

  • Prov 22:18
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    18For it is a pleasant thing if you keep them within you; they shall all be ready on your lips.

  • Prov 6:26
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    26For by means of a harlot a man is brought to a piece of bread: and the adulteress will hunt for the precious life.

  • Prov 18:21
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    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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  • Ps 34:13
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    13Keep your tongue from evil, and your lips from speaking deceit.

  • 1 Sam 12:25
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    25But if you shall still do wickedly, you shall be consumed, both you and your king.

  • Prov 24:11
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    11If you hold back from rescuing those taken away to death, and those ready to be slain;

  • Exod 21:14
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    14But if a man acts presumptuously against his neighbor, to kill him with guile, you shall take him from my altar, that he may die.

  • Deut 12:20
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    20When the LORD your God enlarges your border, as He has promised you, and you say, I want to eat meat, because your soul desires to eat meat; you may eat meat, whatever your soul desires.

  • Prov 28:21
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    21To show partiality is not good; for a piece of bread that man will transgress.

  • Job 36:17
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    17But you have fulfilled the judgment of the wicked: judgment and justice take hold on you.

  • Prov 1:10
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    10My son, if sinners entice you, do not consent.

  • Prov 25:6
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    6Do not exalt yourself in the presence of the king, and do not stand in the place of great men;

  • Prov 6:21
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    21Bind them continually upon your heart, and tie them around your neck.

  • Prov 20:17
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    17Bread gained by deceit is sweet to a man, but afterward his mouth shall be filled with gravel.

  • Prov 4:17
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    17For they eat the bread of wickedness, and drink the wine of violence.

  • Prov 30:22
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    22For a servant when he reigns, and a fool when he is filled with food;

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    2I counsel you to keep the king's commandment, and that in regard to the oath of God.

  • Prov 5:2
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    2That you may keep discretion, and that your lips may preserve knowledge.

  • Prov 20:13
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    13Do not love sleep, lest you come to poverty; open your eyes, and you shall be satisfied with bread.

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    12Lest when you have eaten and are full, and have built beautiful houses, and dwelt therein;

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    2Your tongue devises mischiefs; like a sharp razor, working deceitfully.