Thematic Bible
Proverbs 23:1 (show verse)
When you sit to eat with a ruler, consider diligently what is before you:
Proverbs 23:2 (show verse)
And put a knife to your throat, if you are a man given to appetite.
Proverbs 23:3 (show verse)
Be not desirous of his delicacies: for they are deceitful food.
Proverbs 23:4 (show verse)
Labor not to be rich: cease from your own wisdom.
Proverbs 23:5 (show verse)
Will you set your eyes upon that which is not? for riches certainly make themselves wings; they fly away as an eagle toward heaven.
Proverbs 23:6 (show verse)
Eat not the bread of him that is stingy, neither desire you his delicacies:
Proverbs 23:7 (show verse)
For as he thinks in his heart, so is he: Eat and drink, says he to you; but his heart is not with you.
Proverbs 23:8 (show verse)
The morsel which you have eaten shall you vomit up, and waste your sweet words.
Proverbs 23:9 (show verse)
Speak not in the ears of a fool: for he will despise the wisdom of your words.
Proverbs 23:10 (show verse)
Remove not the old landmark; and enter not into the fields of the fatherless:
Proverbs 23:11 (show verse)
For their redeemer is mighty; he shall plead their cause with you.
Proverbs 23:12 (show verse)
Apply your heart unto instruction, and your ears to the words of knowledge.
Proverbs 23:13 (show verse)
Withhold not correction from the child: for if you beat him with a rod, he shall not die.
Proverbs 23:14 (show verse)
You shall beat him with the rod, and shall deliver his soul from sheol.
Proverbs 23:15 (show verse)
My son, if your heart is wise, my heart shall rejoice, even mine.
Proverbs 23:16 (show verse)
Yea, my inmost being shall rejoice, when your lips speak right things.
Proverbs 23:17 (show verse)
Let not your heart envy sinners: but be in the fear of the LORD all the day long.
Proverbs 23:18 (show verse)
For surely there is a future hope; and your expectation shall not be cut off.
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Proverbs 23:19 (show verse)
Hear you, my son, and be wise, and guide your heart in the way.
Proverbs 23:20 (show verse)
Be not among winebibbers; among gluttonous eaters of meat:
Proverbs 23:21 (show verse)
For the drunkard and the glutton shall come to poverty: and drowsiness shall clothe a man with rags.
Proverbs 23:22 (show verse)
Hearken unto your father that begat you, and despise not your mother when she is old.
Proverbs 23:23 (show verse)
Buy the truth, and sell it not; also wisdom, and instruction, and understanding.
Proverbs 23:24 (show verse)
The father of the righteous shall greatly rejoice: and he that begets a wise child shall have joy in him.
Proverbs 23:25 (show verse)
Your father and your mother shall be glad, and she that bore you shall rejoice.
Proverbs 23:26 (show verse)
My son, give me your heart, and let your eyes observe my ways.
Proverbs 23:27 (show verse)
For a harlot is a deep ditch; and a seductress is a narrow well.
Proverbs 23:28 (show verse)
She also lies in wait as for a prey, and increases the unfaithful among men.
Proverbs 23:29 (show verse)
Who has woe? who has sorrow? who has contentions? who has babbling? who has wounds without cause? who has redness of eyes?
Proverbs 23:30 (show verse)
They that tarry long at the wine; they that go to seek mixed wine.
Proverbs 23:31 (show verse)
Look not you upon the wine when it is red, when it gives its color in the cup, when it moves itself aright.
Proverbs 23:32 (show verse)
At the last it bites like a serpent, and stings like an adder.
Proverbs 23:33 (show verse)
Your eyes shall behold strange things, and your heart shall utter perverse things.
Proverbs 23:34 (show verse)
Yea, you shall be as he that lies down in the midst of the sea, or as he that lies upon the top of a mast.
Proverbs 23:35 (show verse)
They have stricken me, you shall 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.