Proverbs 23:6

Webster's Bible (1833)

Don't eat the food of him who has a stingy eye, And don't crave his delicacies:

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  • Ps 141:4 : 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.
  • Deut 15:9 : 9 Beware that there not be a base 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 cry to Yahweh against you, and it be sin to you.
  • Prov 23:3 : 3 Don't be desirous of his dainties, Seeing they are deceitful food.
  • Dan 1:8-9 : 8 But Daniel purposed in his heart that he would not defile himself with the king's dainties, nor with the wine which he drank: therefore he requested of the prince of the eunuchs that he might not defile himself. 9 Now God made Daniel to find kindness and compassion in the sight of the prince of the eunuchs. 10 The prince of the eunuchs said to Daniel, I fear my lord the king, who has appointed your food and your drink: for why should he see your faces worse looking than the youths who are of your own age? so would you endanger my head with the king.
  • Prov 22:9 : 9 He who has a generous eye will be blessed; For he shares his food with the poor.
  • Deut 28:56 : 56 The tender and delicate woman among you, who would not adventure to set the sole of her foot on 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 Isn't it lawful for me to do what I want to with what I own? Or is your eye evil, because I am good?'
  • Mark 7:22 : 22 covetings, wickedness, deceit, lustful desires, an evil eye, blasphemy, pride, and foolishness.
  • Prov 28:22 : 22 A stingy man hurries after riches, And doesn't know that poverty waits for him.

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    1When you sit to eat with a ruler, Consider diligently what is before you;

    2Put a knife to your throat, If you are a man given to appetite.

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    4Don't weary yourself to be rich. In your wisdom, show restraint.

    5Why do you set your eyes on that which is not? For it certainly sprouts wings like an eagle and flies in the sky.

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

    22A stingy man hurries after riches, And doesn't know that poverty waits for him.

  • Prov 23:7-8
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    7For as he thinks about the cost, so he is. "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 good words.

  • Prov 22:9
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    9He who has a generous eye will be blessed; For he shares his food with the poor.

  • Prov 24:1
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    1Don't be envious of evil men; Neither desire to be with them:

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    4Don'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.

  • 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 shall do that which is right in the eyes of Yahweh.

  • Prov 6:30
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    30Men don't despise a thief, If he steals to satisfy himself when he is hungry:

  • Prov 6:25
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    25Don't lust after her beauty in your heart, Neither let her captivate you with her eyelids.

  • Deut 15:9
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    13Don't love sleep, lest you come to poverty; Open your eyes, and you shall be satisfied with bread.

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    37You shall not lend him your money at interest, nor give him your food for profit.

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    2a man to whom God gives riches, wealth, and honor, so that he lacks nothing for his soul of all that he desires, yet God gives him no power to eat of it, but an alien eats it. This is vanity, and it is an evil disease.

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

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  • Prov 3:31
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    31Don't envy the man of violence. Choose none of his ways.

  • Prov 30:8
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    8Remove far from me falsehood and lies. Give me neither poverty nor riches. Feed me with the food that is needful for me;

  • Prov 21:26
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    26There are those who covet greedily all the day long; But the righteous give and don't withhold.

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    27One who gives to the poor has no lack; But one who closes his eyes will have many curses.

  • Ezek 18:15
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    15who has not eaten on the mountains, neither has 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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    17Let your foot be seldom in your neighbor's house, Lest he be weary of you, and hate you.

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    17For they eat the bread of wickedness, And drink the wine of violence.

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    20So that his life abhors bread, And his soul dainty food.

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    20Don't be among ones drinking too much wine, Or those who gorge themselves on meat:

  • Job 22:7
    70%

    7You haven't given water to the weary to drink, And you have withheld bread from the hungry.

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

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    17Fraudulent food is sweet to a man, But afterwards his mouth is filled with gravel.

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    8You shall take no bribe, for a bribe blinds those who have sight and perverts the words of the righteous.

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    7Their eyes bulge with fat. Their minds pass the limits of conceit.

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    54The 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 whom he has remaining;

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    3You shall not eat any abominable thing.

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    16Then don't let your good be slandered,

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    3neither shall you favor a poor man in his cause.

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    2Why do you spend money for that which is not bread? and your labor for that which doesn't satisfy? listen diligently to me, and eat you that which is good, and let your soul delight itself in fatness.