Proverbs 23:6

KJV1611 – Modern English

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

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  • Ps 141:4 : 4 Do 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.
  • Deut 15:9 : 9 Beware that there is not a wicked thought in your heart, saying, 'The seventh year, the year of release, is at hand,' and your eye be evil against your poor brother, and you give him nothing; and he cries to the LORD against you, and it be sin to you.
  • Prov 23:3 : 3 Do not desire his delicacies, for they are deceptive food.
  • Dan 1:8-9 : 8 But Daniel resolved in his heart that he would not defile himself with the portion of the king's delicacies, nor with the wine he drank; therefore he requested of the chief of the eunuchs that he might not defile himself. 9 Now God had brought Daniel into favor and tender love with the chief of the eunuchs. 10 And the chief of the eunuchs said to Daniel, "I fear my lord the king, who has appointed your food and drink. For why should he see your faces looking worse than the young men who are your age? Then you would endanger my head to the king."
  • Prov 22:9 : 9 He who has a bountiful eye shall be blessed, for he gives of his bread to the poor.
  • Deut 28:56 : 56 The tender and delicate woman among you, who would not venture to set the sole of her foot upon the ground for delicateness and tenderness, her eye shall be evil toward the husband of her bosom, and toward her son, and toward her daughter,
  • Matt 20:15 : 15 Is it not lawful for me to do what I will with my own? Is your eye evil, because I am good?
  • Mark 7:22 : 22 Thefts, covetousness, wickedness, deceit, lewdness, an evil eye, blasphemy, pride, foolishness:
  • Prov 28:22 : 22 He who hastens to be rich has an evil eye and does not consider that poverty shall come upon him.

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

    2And put a knife to your throat, if you are a man given to appetite.

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

    4Do not labor to be rich; cease from your own wisdom.

    5Will you set your eyes on that which is not? For riches certainly make themselves wings; they fly away as an eagle toward heaven.

  • Prov 28:21-22
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    21To show partiality is not good; for a piece of bread that man will transgress.

    22He who hastens to be rich has an evil eye and does not consider that poverty shall come upon him.

  • Prov 23:7-8
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    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 22:9
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    9He who has a bountiful eye shall be blessed, for he gives of his bread to the poor.

  • Prov 24:1
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    1Do not be envious of evil men, nor desire to be with them.

  • 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.

  • 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.

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

  • Prov 6:25
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    25Do not lust after her beauty in your heart; neither let her take you with her eyelids.

  • Deut 15:9
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    9Beware that there is not a wicked thought in your heart, saying, 'The seventh year, the year of release, is at hand,' and your eye be evil against your poor brother, and you give him nothing; and he cries to the LORD against you, and it be sin to you.

  • 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.

  • Lev 25:37
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    37You shall not give him your money upon usury, nor lend him your food for increase.

  • Eccl 6:2
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    2A man to whom God has given riches, wealth, and honor, so that he wants nothing for his soul of all he desires, yet God does not give him the power to eat of it, but a stranger eats it: this is vanity, and it is an evil disease.

  • Matt 6:23
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    23But if your eye is bad, your whole body will be full of darkness. If therefore the light that is in you is darkness, how great is that darkness!

  • Prov 24:18-19
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    18Lest the LORD see it, and it displease him, and he turn away his wrath from him.

    19Do not fret because of evil men, neither be envious of the wicked.

  • Prov 21:10
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    10The soul of the wicked desires evil; his neighbor finds no favor in his eyes.

  • Prov 3:31
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    31Do not envy the oppressor, and choose none of his ways.

  • 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 21:26
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    26He covets greedily all day long, but the righteous gives and does not hold back.

  • Prov 28:27
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    27He who gives to the poor shall not lack, but he who hides his eyes will have many curses.

  • Ezek 18:15
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    15Who has not eaten upon the mountains, nor lifted up his eyes to the idols of the house of Israel, has not defiled his neighbor's wife,

  • Lev 22:25
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    25Neither from a stranger's hand shall you offer the bread of your God of any of these; because their corruption is in them, and blemishes are in them: they shall not be accepted for you.

  • Prov 25:17
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    17Withdraw your foot from your neighbor's house, lest he become weary of you and so hate you.

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

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

  • Hab 2:9
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    9Woe to him who covets an evil covetousness to his house, that he may set his nest on high, that he may be delivered from the power of evil!

  • Job 33:20
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    20So that his life abhors bread, and his soul dainty food.

  • Deut 8:12
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    12Lest when you have eaten and are full, and have built beautiful houses, and dwelt therein;

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

  • 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.

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

  • Exod 23:8
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    8And you shall take no bribe, for a bribe blinds the discerning and perverts the words of the righteous.

  • Ps 73:7
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    7Their eyes bulge with abundance; they have more than heart could wish.

  • Deut 28:54
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    54So that the man who is tender among you, and very delicate, his eye shall be evil toward his brother, and toward the wife of his bosom, and toward the remnant of his children which he shall leave:

  • Deut 14:3
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    3You shall not eat any abominable thing.

  • Rom 14:16
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    16Therefore do not let your good be spoken of as evil.

  • Matt 6:19
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    19Do not lay up for yourselves treasures on earth, where moth and rust destroy and where thieves break in and steal,

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    3Nor shall you show favoritism to a poor man in his dispute.

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    2Why do you spend money on what is not bread, and your labor on what does not satisfy? Listen diligently to me, and eat what is good, and let your soul delight itself in abundance.