Proverbs 23:7 Themes and Topics

When you sit to eat with a ruler, consider diligently what is before you; put a knife to your throat, if you are a man given to appetite. Don't be desirous of his dainties, since they are deceitful food. read more.
Don't weary yourself to be rich. In your wisdom, show restraint. Why do you set your eyes on that which is not? For it certainly sprouts wings like an eagle and flies in the sky. Don't eat the food of him who has a stingy eye, and don't crave his delicacies: for as he thinks about the cost, so he is. "Eat and drink!" he says to you, but his heart is not with you. The morsel which you have eaten you shall vomit up, and lose your good words.

Don't be envious of evil men; neither desire to be with them: for their hearts plot violence, and their lips talk about mischief.

When you sit to eat with a ruler, consider diligently what is before you; put a knife to your throat, if you are a man given to appetite. Don't be desirous of his dainties, since they are deceitful food. read more.
Don't weary yourself to be rich. In your wisdom, show restraint. Why do you set your eyes on that which is not? For it certainly sprouts wings like an eagle and flies in the sky. Don't eat the food of him who has a stingy eye, and don't crave his delicacies: for as he thinks about the cost, so he is. "Eat and drink!" he says to you, but his heart is not with you. The morsel which you have eaten you shall vomit up, and lose your good words.

Let's not become conceited, provoking one another, and envying one another. Verse Concepts

For out of the heart come forth evil thoughts, murders, adulteries, sexual sins, thefts, false testimony, and blasphemies. Verse Concepts

Jerusalem, wash your heart from wickedness, that you may be saved. How long shall your evil thoughts lodge within you? Verse Concepts

The schemes of folly are sin. The mocker is detested by men. Verse Concepts

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. Verse Concepts

They plot injustice, saying, "We have made a perfect plan!" Surely man's mind and heart are cunning. Verse Concepts

Yahweh knows the thoughts of man, that they are futile. Verse Concepts

Yahweh detests the thoughts of the wicked, but the thoughts of the pure are pleasing. Verse Concepts

for as he thinks about the cost, so he is. "Eat and drink!" he says to you, but his heart is not with you. Verse Concepts

"For I [know] their works and their thoughts: [the time] comes, that I will gather all nations and languages; and they shall come, and shall see my glory. Verse Concepts

Jesus, knowing their thoughts, said, "Why do you think evil in your hearts? Verse Concepts

When you sit to eat with a ruler, consider diligently what is before you; put a knife to your throat, if you are a man given to appetite. Don't be desirous of his dainties, since they are deceitful food.

Don't exalt yourself in the presence of the king, or claim a place among great men; for it is better that it be said to you, "Come up here," than that you should be put lower in the presence of the prince, whom your eyes have seen.

But if one of those who don't believe invites you to a meal, and you are inclined to go, eat whatever is set before you, asking no questions for the sake of conscience. Verse Concepts

Don't eat the food of him who has a stingy eye, and don't crave his delicacies: for as he thinks about the cost, so he is. "Eat and drink!" he says to you, but his heart is not with you. The morsel which you have eaten you shall vomit up, and lose your good words.

Let your foot be seldom in your neighbor's house, lest he be weary of you, and hate you. Verse Concepts

Into whatever house you enter, first say, 'Peace be to this house.' If a son of peace is there, your peace will rest on him; but if not, it will return to you. Remain in that same house, eating and drinking the things they give, for the laborer is worthy of his wages. Don't go from house to house.

He spoke a parable to those who were invited, when he noticed how they chose the best seats, and said to them, "When you are invited by anyone to a marriage feast, don't sit in the best seat, since perhaps someone more honorable than you might be invited by him, and he who invited both of you would come and tell you, 'Make room for this person.' Then you would begin, with shame, to take the lowest place. read more.
But when you are invited, go and sit in the lowest place, so that when he who invited you comes, he may tell you, 'Friend, move up higher.' Then you will be honored in the presence of all who sit at the table with you. For everyone who exalts himself will be humbled, and whoever humbles himself will be exalted."

so that you are not seen by men to be fasting, but by your Father who is in secret, and your Father, who sees in secret, will reward you. Verse Concepts

for as he thinks about the cost, so he is. "Eat and drink!" he says to you, but his heart is not with you. Verse Concepts

Meanwhile, when a multitude of many thousands had gathered together, so much so that they trampled on each other, he began to tell his disciples first of all, "Beware of the yeast of the Pharisees, which is hypocrisy. Verse Concepts

They profess that they know God, but by their works they deny him, being abominable, disobedient, and unfit for any good work. Verse Concepts

through the hypocrisy of men who speak lies, branded in their own conscience as with a hot iron; Verse Concepts

Even so you also outwardly appear righteous to men, but inwardly you are full of hypocrisy and iniquity. Verse Concepts

for as he thinks about the cost, so he is. "Eat and drink!" he says to you, but his heart is not with you. Verse Concepts

When his speech is charming, don't believe him; for there are seven abominations in his heart. Verse Concepts