Proverbs 23

¹When thou sittest to eat with a ruler, consider diligently what is before thee: Copy Many Bible Versions Ask AI Cross Refs:Gen 43:32-34Jude 1:12

²And put a knife to thy throat, if thou be a man given to appetite. Copy Many Bible Versions Ask AI Cross Refs:Phil 3:19Matt 18:8-91 Cor 9:27

³Be not desirous of his dainties: for they are deceitful meat. Copy Many Bible Versions Ask AI Cross Refs:Prov 23:6Luke 21:34Ps 141:4Dan 1:8Eph 4:22

⁴Labour not to be rich: cease from thine own wisdom. Copy Many Bible Versions Ask AI Cross Refs:Heb 13:5Prov 28:201 Tim 6:8-10Matt 6:19Prov 3:5John 6:27Prov 15:27Rom 12:16Isa 5:21Prov 26:12

⁵Wilt thou set thine eyes upon that which is not? for riches certainly make themselves wings; they fly away as an eagle toward heaven. Copy Many Bible Versions Ask AI Cross Refs:Prov 27:241 John 2:161 Tim 6:17Jas 5:1-2Matt 6:19Ps 119:36-37Eccl 12:8Gen 42:361 Cor 7:29-31Eccl 1:2

⁶Eat thou not the bread of him that hath an evil eye, neither desire thou his dainty meats: Copy Many Bible Versions Ask AI Cross Refs:Prov 23:3Ps 141:4Dan 1:8-10Deut 15:9Matt 20:15Deut 28:56Prov 22:9Prov 28:22Mark 7:22

⁷For as he thinketh in his heart, so is he: Eat and drink, saith he to thee; but his heart is not with thee. Copy Many Bible Versions Ask AI Cross Refs:Ps 12:2Ps 55:21Judg 16:15Matt 9:3-4Luke 11:37-54Luke 7:39Dan 11:27Prov 19:222 Sam 13:26-28

⁸The morsel which thou hast eaten shalt thou vomit up, and lose thy sweet words. Copy Many Bible Versions Ask AI

⁹Speak not in the ears of a fool: for he will despise the wisdom of thy words. Copy Many Bible Versions Ask AI Cross Refs:Prov 9:7-8Matt 7:6Prov 26:4-5Prov 1:71 Cor 1:21-24Acts 13:45-46Acts 28:25-28Isa 36:21John 10:20John 8:52

¹⁰Remove not the old landmark; and enter not into the fields of the fatherless: Copy Many Bible Versions Ask AI Cross Refs:Prov 22:28Zech 7:10Deut 27:17Jas 1:27Jer 22:3Deut 19:14Job 24:2-3Jer 7:5Job 22:9Job 31:21-23

¹¹For their redeemer is mighty; he shall plead their cause with thee. Copy Many Bible Versions Ask AI Cross Refs:Prov 22:23Job 19:25Deut 27:19Exod 22:22-24Ps 12:5Jer 51:36Jer 50:33-34

¹²Apply thine heart unto instruction, and thine ears to the words of knowledge. Copy Many Bible Versions Ask AI Cross Refs:Prov 2:2-6Prov 5:1-2Jas 1:21-25Prov 23:19Ezek 33:31Matt 13:52Prov 22:17

¹³Withhold not correction from the child: for if thou beatest him with the rod, he shall not die. Copy Many Bible Versions Ask AI Cross Refs:Prov 13:24Prov 19:18Prov 29:15Prov 29:17

¹⁴Thou shalt beat him with the rod, and shalt deliver his soul from hell. Copy Many Bible Versions Ask AI Cross Refs:1 Cor 11:321 Cor 5:5Prov 22:15

¹⁵My son, if thine heart be wise, my heart shall rejoice, even mine. Copy Many Bible Versions Ask AI Cross Refs:Prov 23:24-252 John 1:43 John 1:3-4Prov 29:3Zeph 3:171 John 2:11 Thess 3:8-9John 15:11Prov 2:1Prov 4:1

¹⁶Yea, my reins shall rejoice, when thy lips speak right things. Copy Many Bible Versions Ask AI Cross Refs:Prov 8:6Eph 5:4Col 4:4Eph 4:29Jas 3:2

¹⁷Let not thine heart envy sinners: but be thou in the fear of the Lord all the day long. Copy Many Bible Versions Ask AI Cross Refs:Prov 28:142 Cor 7:1Prov 15:161 Pet 1:17Acts 9:31Eccl 5:7Prov 3:31Ps 111:10-112:1Ps 37:1-3Eccl 12:13-14

¹⁸For surely there is an end; and thine expectation shall not be cut off. Copy Many Bible Versions Ask AI Cross Refs:Heb 10:35Jer 29:11Ps 9:18Phil 1:20Prov 24:14Prov 24:20Rom 6:21-22Ps 37:37Luke 16:25

¹⁹Hear thou, my son, and be wise, and guide thine heart in the way. Copy Many Bible Versions Ask AI Cross Refs:Prov 23:26Prov 23:12Prov 4:10-23Prov 6:6Prov 9:6

²⁰Be not among winebibbers; among riotous eaters of flesh: Copy Many Bible Versions Ask AI Cross Refs:Eph 5:18Luke 21:34Isa 5:22Rom 13:131 Pet 4:3-4Isa 22:13Isa 5:11Luke 15:13Matt 24:49Prov 28:7

²¹For the drunkard and the glutton shall come to poverty: and drowsiness shall clothe a man with rags. Copy Many Bible Versions Ask AI Cross Refs:Prov 21:17Phil 3:19Prov 19:151 Cor 5:11Deut 21:20Gal 5:21Prov 6:9-111 Cor 6:10Joel 1:5Prov 24:30-34

²²Hearken unto thy father that begat thee, and despise not thy mother when she is old. Copy Many Bible Versions Ask AI Cross Refs:Prov 30:17Prov 1:8John 19:26-27Eph 6:1-2Prov 6:20Deut 27:16Deut 21:18-21Lev 19:3Mark 7:10Matt 15:4-6

²³Buy the truth, and sell it not; also wisdom, and instruction, and understanding. Copy Many Bible Versions Ask AI Cross Refs:Prov 18:15Matt 13:44Ps 119:72Prov 16:16Heb 11:26Isa 55:1Phil 3:7-8Prov 10:1Matt 16:26Ps 119:127

²⁴The father of the righteous shall greatly rejoice: and he that begetteth a wise child shall have joy of him. Copy Many Bible Versions Ask AI Cross Refs:Prov 10:1Prov 15:20Prov 23:15-16Prov 29:3Phlm 1:20Phlm 1:91 Kgs 2:1-31 Kgs 2:9Eccl 2:191 Kgs 1:48

²⁵Thy father and thy mother shall be glad, and she that bare thee shall rejoice. Copy Many Bible Versions Ask AI Cross Refs:Prov 17:25Luke 1:58Luke 11:27-281 Chr 4:9-10Luke 1:40-47Luke 1:31-33

²⁶My son, give me thine heart, and let thine eyes observe my ways. Copy Many Bible Versions Ask AI Cross Refs:Ps 119:2Ps 119:9-11Deut 6:5Matt 10:37-38Prov 4:25-27Prov 3:1Prov 4:232 Cor 5:14-15Eph 3:17Prov 4:4

²⁷For a whore is a deep ditch; and a strange woman is a narrow pit. Copy Many Bible Versions Ask AI Cross Refs:Prov 22:14

²⁸She also lieth in wait as for a prey, and increaseth the transgressors among men. Copy Many Bible Versions Ask AI Cross Refs:Eccl 7:261 Cor 10:8Hos 4:11Prov 7:12Prov 22:14Rev 17:1-2Jer 3:2Prov 2:16-19Prov 7:22-27Judg 16:4-22

²⁹Who hath woe? who hath sorrow? who hath contentions? who hath babbling? who hath wounds without cause? who hath redness of eyes? Copy Many Bible Versions Ask AI Cross Refs:Eph 5:181 Sam 25:36-372 Sam 13:28Isa 28:7-8Isa 5:11Isa 5:22Luke 12:45-46Prov 23:211 Kgs 20:16-22Matt 24:49-50

³⁰They that tarry long at the wine; they that go to seek mixed wine. Copy Many Bible Versions Ask AI Cross Refs:Eph 5:18Isa 5:11Prov 20:1Amos 6:6Prov 9:2Ps 75:8Gen 9:21

³¹Look not thou upon the wine when it is red, when it giveth his colour in the cup, when it moveth itself aright. Copy Many Bible Versions Ask AI Cross Refs:1 John 2:16Ps 119:372 Sam 11:2Mark 9:47Prov 6:25Job 33:1Matt 5:28-30

³²At the last it biteth like a serpent, and stingeth like an adder. Copy Many Bible Versions Ask AI Cross Refs:Isa 28:3Isa 28:7-8Luke 16:25-26Amos 5:19Amos 9:3Eccl 10:8Exod 7:12Exod 7:5-6Isa 59:5Jer 5:31

³³Thine eyes shall behold strange women, and thine heart shall utter perverse things. Copy Many Bible Versions Ask AI Cross Refs:Jude 1:12-13Hos 7:5Prov 2:12Prov 31:5Dan 5:4Gen 19:32-38Ps 69:12

³⁴Yea, thou shalt be as he that lieth down in the midst of the sea, or as he that lieth upon the top of a mast. Copy Many Bible Versions Ask AI Cross Refs:1 Thess 5:2-71 Kgs 16:91 Sam 30:16-172 Sam 13:28Luke 17:27-29Luke 21:34Matt 24:381 Sam 25:33-38Exod 15:8Joel 1:5

³⁵They have stricken me, shalt thou say, and I was not sick; they have beaten me, and I felt it not: when shall I awake? I will seek it yet again. Copy Many Bible Versions Ask AI Cross Refs:Jer 5:3Isa 56:121 Cor 15:32-342 Pet 2:22Isa 22:13Prov 26:11Prov 27:22Deut 29:19Eph 4:19Jer 31:18