Proverbs 23:2

NET Bible® (New English Translation)

and put a knife to your throat if you possess a large appetite.

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Referenced Verses

  • Matt 18:8-9 : 8 If your hand or your foot causes you to sin, cut it off and throw it away. It is better for you to enter life crippled or lame than to have two hands or two feet and be thrown into eternal fire. 9 And if your eye causes you to sin, tear it out and throw it away. It is better for you to enter into life with one eye than to have two eyes and be thrown into fiery hell.
  • 1 Cor 9:27 : 27 Instead I subdue my body and make it my slave, so that after preaching to others I myself will not be disqualified.
  • Phil 3:19 : 19 Their end is destruction, their god is the belly, they exult in their shame, and they think about earthly things.

Similar Verses (AI)

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  • Prov 23:1
    80%

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

  • Prov 23:3
    79%

    3Do not crave that ruler’s delicacies, for that food is deceptive.

  • Prov 23:6-8
    3 verses
    74%

    6Do not eat the food of a stingy person, do not crave his delicacies;

    7for he is like someone who has calculated the cost in his mind.“Eat and drink,” he says to you, but his heart is not with you;

    8you will vomit up the little bit you have eaten, and will have wasted your pleasant words.

  • Prov 23:19-21
    3 verses
    73%

    19Listen, my child, and be wise, and guide your heart on the right way.

    20Do not spend time among drunkards, among those who eat too much meat,

    21because drunkards and gluttons become impoverished, and drowsiness clothes them with rags.

  • Prov 13:2-3
    2 verses
    71%

    2From the fruit of his speech a person eats good things, but the treacherous desire the fruit of violence.

    3The one who guards his words guards his life; whoever is talkative will come to ruin.

  • Ps 141:4
    70%

    4Do not let me have evil desires, or participate in sinful activities with men who behave wickedly. I will not eat their delicacies.

  • 1 Sam 2:16
    69%

    16If the individual said to him,“They should certainly burn the fat away first, then take for yourself whatever you wish,” he would say,“No! Give it now! If not, I’ll take it by force!”

  • Mic 6:14
    69%

    14You will eat, but not be satisfied. Even if you have the strength to overtake some prey, you will not be able to carry it away; if you do happen to carry away something, I will deliver it over to the sword.

  • Prov 25:16
    69%

    16You have found honey–eat only what is sufficient for you, lest you become stuffed with it and vomit it up.

  • Ezek 2:8
    69%

    8As for you, son of man, listen to what I am saying to you: Do not rebel like that rebellious house! Open your mouth and eat what I am giving you.”

  • Prov 13:25
    69%

    25The righteous has enough food to satisfy his appetite, but the belly of the wicked will be empty.

  • Deut 12:23
    69%

    23However, by no means eat the blood, for the blood is life itself– you must not eat the life with the meat!

  • Prov 4:24
    69%

    24Remove perverse speech from your mouth; keep devious talk far from your lips.

  • Prov 30:32
    68%

    32If you have done foolishly by exalting yourself or if you have planned evil, put your hand over your mouth!

  • Eccl 6:7
    68%

    7All of man’s labor is for nothing more than to fill his stomach– yet his appetite is never satisfied!

  • Deut 12:25
    68%

    25You must not eat it so that it may go well with you and your children after you; you will be doing what is right in the LORD’s sight.

  • Isa 1:20
    68%

    20But if you refuse and rebel, you will be devoured by the sword.” Know for certain that the LORD has spoken.

  • Ezek 24:22
    68%

    22Then you will do as I have done: You will not cover your lip or eat food brought by others.

  • Prov 6:30
    68%

    30People do not despise a thief when he steals to fulfill his need when he is hungry.

  • Prov 25:21
    68%

    21If your enemy is hungry, give him food to eat, and if he is thirsty, give him water to drink,

  • Eccl 4:5
    68%

    5The fool folds his hands and does no work, so he has nothing to eat but his own flesh.

  • Prov 30:8
    68%

    8Remove falsehood and lies far from me; do not give me poverty or riches, feed me with my allotted portion of bread,

  • Prov 22:18
    68%

    18For it is pleasing if you keep these sayings within you, and they are ready on your lips.

  • Prov 6:26
    68%

    26for on account of a prostitute one is brought down to a loaf of bread, but the wife of another man preys on your precious life.

  • Prov 18:21
    68%

    21Death and life are in the power of the tongue, and those who love its use will eat its fruit.

  • Job 22:7
    67%

    7You gave the weary no water to drink and from the hungry you withheld food.

  • Ps 34:13
    67%

    13Then make sure you don’t speak evil words or use deceptive speech!

  • 1 Sam 12:25
    67%

    25But if you continue to do evil, both you and your king will be swept away.”

  • Prov 24:11
    67%

    11Deliver those being taken away to death, and hold back those slipping to the slaughter.

  • Exod 21:14
    67%

    14But if a man willfully attacks his neighbor to kill him cunningly, you will take him even from my altar that he may die.

  • Deut 12:20
    67%

    20The Sanctity of Blood When the LORD your God extends your borders as he said he would do and you say,“I want to eat meat just as I please,” you may do so as you wish.

  • Prov 28:21
    67%

    21To show partiality is terrible, for a person will transgress over the smallest piece of bread.

  • Job 36:17
    67%

    17But now you are preoccupied with the judgment due the wicked, judgment and justice take hold of you.

  • Prov 1:10
    67%

    10Admonition to Avoid Easy but Unjust Riches My child, if sinners try to entice you, do not consent!

  • Prov 25:6
    67%

    6Do not honor yourself before the king, and do not stand in the place of great men;

  • Prov 6:21
    67%

    21Bind them on your heart continually; fasten them around your neck.

  • Prov 20:17
    67%

    17Bread gained by deceit tastes sweet to a person, but afterward his mouth will be filled with gravel.

  • Prov 4:17
    67%

    17Indeed they have eaten bread gained from wickedness and drink wine obtained from violence.

  • Prov 30:22
    67%

    22under a servant who becomes king, under a fool who becomes stuffed with food,

  • Eccl 8:2
    67%

    2Obey the king’s command, because you took an oath before God to be loyal to him.

  • Prov 5:2
    67%

    2in order to safeguard discretion, and that your lips may guard knowledge.

  • Prov 20:13
    67%

    13Do not love sleep, lest you become impoverished; open your eyes so that you might be satisfied with food.

  • Deut 8:12
    67%

    12When you eat your fill, when you build and occupy good houses,

  • Ps 52:2
    67%

    2Your tongue carries out your destructive plans; it is as effective as a sharp razor, O deceiver.