book_id: PRO

book: Proverbs

reference: Proverbs 23:1

text: When thou sittest to eat with a ruler, consider diligently what is before thee:


reference: Proverbs 23:2

text: And put a knife to thy throat, if thou be a man given to appetite.


reference: Proverbs 23:3

text: Be not desirous of his dainties: for they are deceitful meat.


reference: Proverbs 23:4

text: Labour not to be rich: cease from thine own wisdom.


reference: Proverbs 23:5

text: Wilt thou set thine eyes upon that which is not? for riches certainly make themselves wings; they fly away as an eagle toward heaven.


reference: Proverbs 23:6

text: Eat thou not the bread of him that hath an evil eye, neither desire thou his dainty meats:


reference: Proverbs 23:7

text: For as he thinketh in his heart, so is he: Eat and drink, saith he to thee; but his heart is not with thee.


reference: Proverbs 23:8

text: The morsel which thou hast eaten shalt thou vomit up, and lose thy sweet words.


reference: Proverbs 23:9

text: Speak not in the ears of a fool: for he will despise the wisdom of thy words.


reference: Proverbs 23:10

text: Remove not the old landmark; and enter not into the fields of the fatherless:


reference: Proverbs 23:11

text: For their redeemer is mighty; he shall plead their cause with thee.


reference: Proverbs 23:12

text: Apply thine heart unto instruction, and thine ears to the words of knowledge.


reference: Proverbs 23:13

text: Withhold not correction from the child: for if thou beatest him with the rod, he shall not die.


reference: Proverbs 23:14

text: Thou shalt beat him with the rod, and shalt deliver his soul from hell.


reference: Proverbs 23:15

text: My son, if thine heart be wise, my heart shall rejoice, even mine.


reference: Proverbs 23:16

text: Yea, my reins shall rejoice, when thy lips speak right things.


reference: Proverbs 23:17

text: Let not thine heart envy sinners: but be thou in the fear of the LORD all the day long.


reference: Proverbs 23:18

text: For surely there is an end; and thine expectation shall not be cut off.


reference: Proverbs 23:19

text: Hear thou, my son, and be wise, and guide thine heart in the way.


reference: Proverbs 23:20

text: Be not among winebibbers; among riotous eaters of flesh:


reference: Proverbs 23:21

text: For the drunkard and the glutton shall come to poverty: and drowsiness shall clothe a man with rags.


reference: Proverbs 23:22

text: Hearken unto thy father that begat thee, and despise not thy mother when she is old.


reference: Proverbs 23:23

text: Buy the truth, and sell it not; also wisdom, and instruction, and understanding.


reference: Proverbs 23:24

text: The father of the righteous shall greatly rejoice: and he that begetteth a wise child shall have joy of him.


reference: Proverbs 23:25

text: Thy father and thy mother shall be glad, and she that bare thee shall rejoice.


reference: Proverbs 23:26

text: My son, give me thine heart, and let thine eyes observe my ways.


reference: Proverbs 23:27

text: For a whore is a deep ditch; and a strange woman is a narrow pit.


reference: Proverbs 23:28

text: She also lieth in wait as for a prey, and increaseth the transgressors among men.


reference: Proverbs 23:29

text: Who hath woe? who hath sorrow? who hath contentions? who hath babbling? who hath wounds without cause? who hath redness of eyes?


reference: Proverbs 23:30

text: They that tarry long at the wine; they that go to seek mixed wine.


reference: Proverbs 23:31

text: Look not thou upon the wine when it is red, when it giveth his colour in the cup, when it moveth itself aright.


reference: Proverbs 23:32

text: At the last it biteth like a serpent, and stingeth like an adder.


reference: Proverbs 23:33

text: Thine eyes shall behold strange women, and thine heart shall utter perverse things.


reference: Proverbs 23:34

text: Yea, 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.


reference: Proverbs 23:35

text: They 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.