Proverbs 23:2
put a knife to your throat, if you are a man given to appetite.
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Referenced Verses
- Matt 18:8-9 : 8 If your hand or your foot causes you to stumble, cut it off, and cast it from you. It is better for you to enter into life maimed or crippled, rather than having two hands or two feet to be cast into the eternal fire. 9 If your eye causes you to stumble, 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 the Gehenna of fire.
- 1 Cor 9:27 : 27 but I beat my body and bring it into submission, lest by any means, after I have preached to others, I myself should be rejected.
- Phil 3:19 : 19 whose end is destruction, whose god is the belly, and whose glory is in their shame, who think about earthly things.
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1 When you sit to eat with a ruler, consider diligently what is before you;
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3 Don't be desirous of his dainties, since they are deceitful food.
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6 Don't eat the food of him who has a stingy eye, and don't crave his delicacies:
7 for as he thinks about the cost, so he is. "Eat and drink!" he says to you, but his heart is not with you.
8 The morsel which you have eaten you shall vomit up, and lose your good words.
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19 Listen, my son, and be wise, and keep your heart on the right path!
20 Don't be among ones drinking too much wine, or those who gorge themselves on meat:
21 for the drunkard and the glutton shall become poor; and drowsiness clothes them in rags.
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2 By the fruit of his lips, a man enjoys good things; but the unfaithful crave violence.
3 He who guards his mouth guards his soul. One who opens wide his lips comes to ruin.
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4 Don't incline my heart to any evil thing, to practice deeds of wickedness with men who work iniquity. Don't let me eat of their delicacies.
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16 If the man said to him, "Let the fat be burned first, and then take as much as your soul desires;" then he would say, "No, but you shall give it to me now; and if not, I will take it by force."
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14 You shall eat, but not be satisfied. Your humiliation will be in your midst. You will store up, but not save; and that which you save I will give up to the sword.
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16 Have you found honey? Eat as much as is sufficient for you, lest you eat too much, and vomit it.
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8 But you, son of man, hear what I tell you; don't be rebellious like that rebellious house: open your mouth, and eat that which I give you.
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25 The righteous one eats to the satisfying of his soul, but the belly of the wicked goes hungry.
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23 Only be sure that you don't eat the blood: for the blood is the life; and you shall not eat the life with the flesh.
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24 Put away from yourself a perverse mouth. Put corrupt lips far from you.
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32 "If you have done foolishly in lifting up yourself, or if you have thought evil, put your hand over your mouth.
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7 All the labor of man is for his mouth, and yet the appetite is not filled.
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25 You shall not eat it; that it may go well with you, and with your children after you, when you shall do that which is right in the eyes of Yahweh.
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20 but if you refuse and rebel, you shall be devoured with the sword; for the mouth of Yahweh has spoken it."
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22 You shall do as I have done: you shall not cover your lips, nor eat the bread of men.
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30 Men don't despise a thief, if he steals to satisfy himself when he is hungry:
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21 If your enemy is hungry, give him food to eat. If he is thirsty, give him water to drink:
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5 The fool folds his hands together and ruins himself.
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8 Remove far from me falsehood and lies. Give me neither poverty nor riches. Feed me with the food that is needful for me;
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18 For it is a pleasant thing if you keep them within you, if all of them are ready on your lips.
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26 For a prostitute reduces you to a piece of bread. The adulteress hunts for your precious life.
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21 Death and life are in the power of the tongue; those who love it will eat its fruit.
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7 You haven't given water to the weary to drink, and you have withheld bread from the hungry.
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13 Keep your tongue from evil, and your lips from speaking lies.
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25 But if you shall still do wickedly, you shall be consumed, both you and your king."
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11 Rescue those who are being led away to death! Indeed, hold back those who are staggering to the slaughter!
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14 If a man schemes and comes presumptuously on his neighbor to kill him, you shall take him from my altar, that he may die.
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20 When Yahweh your God shall enlarge your border, as he has promised you, and you shall say, "I want to eat meat," because your soul desires to eat meat; you may eat meat, after all the desire of your soul.
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21 To show partiality is not good; yet a man will do wrong for a piece of bread.
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17 "But you are full of the judgment of the wicked. Judgment and justice take hold of you.
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10 My son, if sinners entice you, don't consent.
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6 Don't exalt yourself in the presence of the king, or claim a place among great men;
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21 Bind them continually on your heart. Tie them around your neck.
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17 Fraudulent food is sweet to a man, but afterwards his mouth is filled with gravel.
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17 For they eat the bread of wickedness, and drink the wine of violence.
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22 For a servant when he is king; a fool when he is filled with food;
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2 I say, "Keep the king's command!" because of the oath to God.
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2 that you may maintain discretion, that your lips may preserve knowledge.
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13 Don't love sleep, lest you come to poverty. Open your eyes, and you shall be satisfied with bread.
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12 lest, when you have eaten and are full, and have built goodly houses, and lived therein;
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2 Your tongue plots destruction, like a sharp razor, working deceitfully.