Proverbs 23:7 Themes and Topics

When you sit down to eat with a ruler, consider carefully what is before you, and put a knife to your throat if you possess a large appetite. Do not crave that ruler's delicacies, for that food is deceptive. read more.
Do not wear yourself out to become rich; be wise enough to restrain yourself. When you gaze upon riches, they are gone, for they surely make wings for themselves, and fly off into the sky like an eagle! Do not eat the food of a stingy person, do not crave his delicacies; for he is like someone calculating the cost in his mind. "Eat and drink," he says to you, but his heart is not with you; you will vomit up the little bit you have eaten, and will have wasted your pleasant words.

Do not envy evil people, do not desire to be with them; for their hearts contemplate violence, and their lips speak harm.

When you sit down to eat with a ruler, consider carefully what is before you, and put a knife to your throat if you possess a large appetite. Do not crave that ruler's delicacies, for that food is deceptive. read more.
Do not wear yourself out to become rich; be wise enough to restrain yourself. When you gaze upon riches, they are gone, for they surely make wings for themselves, and fly off into the sky like an eagle! Do not eat the food of a stingy person, do not crave his delicacies; for he is like someone calculating the cost in his mind. "Eat and drink," he says to you, but his heart is not with you; you will vomit up the little bit you have eaten, and will have wasted your pleasant words.

Let us not become conceited, provoking one another, being jealous of one another. Verse Concepts

For out of the heart come evil ideas, murder, adultery, sexual immorality, theft, false testimony, slander. Verse Concepts

"Oh people of Jerusalem, purify your hearts from evil so that you may yet be delivered. How long will you continue to harbor up wicked schemes within you? Verse Concepts

A foolish scheme is sin, and the scorner is an abomination to people. Verse Concepts

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. Verse Concepts

They devise unjust schemes; they disguise a well-conceived plot. Man's inner thoughts cannot be discovered. Verse Concepts

The Lord knows that peoples' thoughts are morally bankrupt. Verse Concepts

The Lord abhors the plans of the wicked, but pleasant words are pure. Verse Concepts

for he is like someone calculating the cost in his mind. "Eat and drink," he says to you, but his heart is not with you; Verse Concepts

"I hate their deeds and thoughts! So I am coming to gather all the nations and ethnic groups; they will come and witness my splendor. Verse Concepts

When Jesus saw their reaction he said, "Why do you respond with evil in your hearts? Verse Concepts

When you sit down to eat with a ruler, consider carefully what is before you, and put a knife to your throat if you possess a large appetite. Do not crave that ruler's delicacies, for that food is deceptive.

Do not honor yourself before the king, and do not stand in the place of great men; for it is better for him to say to you, "Come up here," than to put you lower before a prince, whom your eyes have seen.

If an unbeliever invites you to dinner and you want to go, eat whatever is served without asking questions of conscience. Verse Concepts

Do not eat the food of a stingy person, do not crave his delicacies; for he is like someone calculating the cost in his mind. "Eat and drink," he says to you, but his heart is not with you; you will vomit up the little bit you have eaten, and will have wasted your pleasant words.

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

Whenever you enter a house, first say, 'May peace be on this house!' And if a peace-loving person is there, your peace will remain on him, but if not, it will return to you. Stay in that same house, eating and drinking what they give you, for the worker deserves his pay. Do not move around from house to house.

Then when Jesus noticed how the guests chose the places of honor, he told them a parable. He said to them, "When you are invited by someone to a wedding feast, do not take the place of honor, because a person more distinguished than you may have been invited by your host. So the host who invited both of you will come and say to you, 'Give this man your place.' Then, ashamed, you will begin to move to the least important place. read more.
But when you are invited, go and take the least important place, so that when your host approaches he will say to you, 'Friend, move up here to a better place.' Then you will be honored in the presence of all who share the meal with you. For everyone who exalts himself will be humbled, but the one who humbles himself will be exalted."

so that it will not be obvious to others when you are fasting, but only to your Father who is in secret. And your Father, who sees in secret, will reward you. Verse Concepts

for he is like someone calculating the cost in his mind. "Eat and drink," he says to you, but his heart is not with you; Verse Concepts

Meanwhile, when many thousands of the crowd had gathered so that they were trampling on one another, Jesus began to speak first to his disciples, "Be on your guard against the yeast of the Pharisees, which is hypocrisy. Verse Concepts

They profess to know God but with their deeds they deny him, since they are detestable, disobedient, and unfit for any good deed. Verse Concepts

influenced by the hypocrisy of liars whose consciences are seared. Verse Concepts

In the same way, on the outside you look righteous to people, but inside you are full of hypocrisy and lawlessness. Verse Concepts

for he is like someone calculating the cost in his mind. "Eat and drink," he says to you, but his heart is not with you; Verse Concepts

When he speaks graciously, do not believe him, for there are seven abominations within him. Verse Concepts