Proverbs 23:6

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

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Referenced Verses

  • Ps 141:4 : 4 Do not let me have evil desires, or participate in sinful activities with men who behave wickedly. I will not eat their delicacies.
  • Deut 15:9 : 9 Be careful lest you entertain the wicked thought that the seventh year, the year of cancellation of debts, has almost arrived, and your attitude be wrong toward your impoverished fellow Israelite and you do not lend him anything; he will cry out to the LORD against you and you will be regarded as having sinned.
  • Prov 23:3 : 3 Do not crave that ruler’s delicacies, for that food is deceptive.
  • Dan 1:8-9 : 8 But Daniel made up his mind that he would not defile himself with the royal delicacies or the royal wine. He therefore asked the overseer of the court officials for permission not to defile himself. 9 Then God made the overseer of the court officials sympathetic to Daniel. 10 But he responded to Daniel,“I fear my master the king. He is the one who has decided your food and drink. What would happen if he saw that you looked malnourished in comparison to the other young men your age? If that happened, you would endanger my life with the king!”
  • Prov 22:9 : 9 A generous person will be blessed, for he has given some of his food to the poor.
  • Deut 28:56 : 56 Likewise, the most tender and delicate of your women, who would never think of putting even the sole of her foot on the ground because of her daintiness, will turn against her beloved husband, her sons and daughters,
  • Matt 20:15 : 15 Am I not permitted to do what I want with what belongs to me? Or are you envious because I am generous?’
  • Mark 7:22 : 22 adultery, greed, evil, deceit, debauchery, envy, slander, pride, and folly.
  • Prov 28:22 : 22 The stingy person hastens after riches and does not know that poverty will overtake him.

Similar Verses (AI)

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  • Prov 23:1-5
    5 verses
    83%

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

    2and put a knife to your throat if you possess a large appetite.

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

    4Do not wear yourself out to become rich; be wise enough to restrain yourself.

    5When you gaze upon riches, they are gone, for they surely make wings for themselves, and fly off into the sky like an eagle!

  • Prov 28:21-22
    2 verses
    78%

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

    22The stingy person hastens after riches and does not know that poverty will overtake him.

  • Prov 23:7-8
    2 verses
    78%

    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 22:9
    76%

    9A generous person will be blessed, for he has given some of his food to the poor.

  • Prov 24:1
    75%

    1Do not envy evil people, do not desire to be with them;

  • Ps 141:4
    74%

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

  • Deut 12:25
    73%

    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.

  • Prov 6:30
    72%

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

  • Prov 6:25
    72%

    25Do not lust in your heart for her beauty, and do not let her captivate you with her alluring eyes;

  • Deut 15:9
    72%

    9Be careful lest you entertain the wicked thought that the seventh year, the year of cancellation of debts, has almost arrived, and your attitude be wrong toward your impoverished fellow Israelite and you do not lend him anything; he will cry out to the LORD against you and you will be regarded as having sinned.

  • Prov 20:13
    72%

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

  • Lev 25:37
    72%

    37You must not lend him your money at interest and you must not sell him food for profit.

  • Eccl 6:2
    72%

    2God gives a man riches, property, and wealth so that he lacks nothing that his heart desires, yet God does not enable him to enjoy the fruit of his labor– instead, someone else enjoys it! This is fruitless and a grave misfortune.

  • Matt 6:23
    71%

    23But if your eye is diseased, your whole body will be full of darkness. If then the light in you is darkness, how great is the darkness!

  • Prov 24:18-19
    2 verses
    71%

    18lest the LORD see it, and be displeased, and turn his wrath away from him.

    19Do not fret because of evil people or be envious of wicked people,

  • Prov 21:10
    71%

    10The appetite of the wicked has desired evil; his neighbor is shown no favor in his eyes.

  • Prov 3:31
    71%

    31Do not envy a violent man, and do not choose any of his ways;

  • Prov 30:8
    71%

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

  • Prov 21:26
    71%

    26All day long he has craved greedily, but the righteous gives and does not hold back.

  • Prov 28:27
    70%

    27The one who gives to the poor will not lack, but whoever shuts his eyes to them will receive many curses.

  • Ezek 18:15
    70%

    15He does not eat pagan sacrifices on the mountains, does not pray to the idols of the house of Israel, does not defile his neighbor’s wife,

  • Lev 22:25
    70%

    25Even from a foreigner you must not present the food of your God from such animals as these, for they are ruined and flawed; they will not be acceptable for your benefit.’”

  • Prov 25:17
    70%

    17Don’t set foot too frequently in your neighbor’s house, lest he become weary of you and hate you.

  • Prov 4:17
    70%

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

  • Prov 13:25
    70%

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

  • Hab 2:9
    70%

    9The one who builds his house by unjust gain is as good as dead. He does this so he can build his nest way up high and escape the clutches of disaster.

  • Job 33:20
    70%

    20so that his life loathes food, and his soul rejects appetizing fare.

  • Deut 8:12
    70%

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

  • Prov 23:20
    70%

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

  • Job 22:7
    70%

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

  • Ezek 24:22
    70%

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

  • Prov 20:17
    70%

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

  • Exod 23:8
    69%

    8“You must not accept a bribe, for a bribe blinds those who see and subverts the words of the righteous.

  • Ps 73:7
    69%

    7Their prosperity causes them to do wrong; their thoughts are sinful.

  • Deut 28:54
    69%

    54The man among you who is by nature tender and sensitive will turn against his brother, his beloved wife, and his remaining children.

  • Deut 14:3
    69%

    3You must not eat any forbidden thing.

  • Rom 14:16
    69%

    16Therefore do not let what you consider good be spoken of as evil.

  • Matt 6:19
    69%

    19Lasting Treasure“Do not accumulate for yourselves treasures on earth, where moth and devouring insect destroy and where thieves break in and steal.

  • Exod 23:3
    69%

    3and you must not show partiality to a poor man in his lawsuit.

  • Isa 55:2
    69%

    2Why pay money for something that will not nourish you? Why spend your hard-earned money on something that will not satisfy? Listen carefully to me and eat what is nourishing! Enjoy fine food!