Proverbs Chapter 23

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

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

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

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

1 Tim 6:9  But they that will be rich fall into temptation and a snare, and into many foolish and hurtful lusts, which drown men in destruction and perdition.

Romans 12:16  Be of the same mind one toward another. Mind not high things, but condescend to men of low estate. Be not wise in your own conceits.

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

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

Duet 15:9  Beware that there be not a thought in thy wicked heart, saying, The seventh year, the year of release, is at hand; and thine eye be evil against thy poor brother, and thou givest him nought; and he cry unto the LORD against thee, and it be sin unto thee.

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

Psalms 12:2  They speak vanity every one with his neighbour: with flattering lips and with a double heart do they speak.

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

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

Proverbs 8:8  Reprove not a scorner, lest he hate thee: rebuke a wise man, and he will love thee.

Matt 7:6  Give not that which is holy unto the dogs, neither cast ye your pearls before swine, lest they trample them under their feet, and turn again and rend you.

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

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

Prov 22:23 For the LORD will plead their cause, and spoil the soul of those that spoiled them.

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

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

Prov 13:24  He that spareth his rod hateth his son: but he that loveth him chasteneth him betimes.

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

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

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

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

Psalms 37:1  (A Psalm of David.) Fret not thyself because of evildoers, neither be thou envious against the workers of iniquity.

Prov 28:14  Happy is the man that feareth alway: but he that hardeneth his heart shall fall into mischief.

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

Psalms 37:37  Mark the perfect man, and behold the upright: for the end of that man is peace.

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

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

Isaiah 5:22  Woe unto them that are mighty to drink wine, and men of strength to mingle strong drink:

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

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

Prov 1: 8  My son, hear the instruction of thy father, and forsake not the law of thy mother:

Eph 6:1-2 
1 Children, obey your parents in the Lord: for this is right.
2 Honour thy father and mother; (which is the first commandment with promise;)

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

Matt 13:34  Again, the kingdom of heaven is like unto treasure hid in a field; the which when a man hath found, he hideth, and for joy thereof goeth and selleth all that he hath, and buyeth that field.

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

Prov 10:1  The proverbs of Solomon. A wise son maketh a glad father: but a foolish son is the heaviness of his mother.

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

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

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

Prov 22:14  The mouth of strange women is a deep pit: he that is abhorred of the LORD shall fall therein.

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

Prov 7:12   Now is she without, now in the streets, and lieth in wait at every corner.)

Eccl 7:26  And I find more bitter than death the woman, whose heart is snares and nets, and her hands as bands: whoso pleaseth God shall escape from her; but the sinner shall be taken by her.

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

Isaiah
5:11  Woe unto them that rise up early in the morning, that they may follow strong drink; that continue until night, till wine inflame them!
5:22  Woe unto them that are mighty to drink wine, and men of strength to mingle strong drink:

Gen 49:12  His eyes shall be red with wine, and his teeth white with milk.

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

Eph 5:18  And be not drunk with wine, wherein is excess; but be filled with the Spirit;

Psalms 75:8  For in the hand of the LORD there is a cup, and the wine is red; it is full of mixture; and he poureth out of the same: but the dregs thereof, all the wicked of the earth shall wring them out, and drink them.

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

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

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

34 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.

35 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.

Jer 5:3  O LORD, are not thine eyes upon the truth? thou hast stricken them, but they have not grieved; thou hast consumed them, but they have refused to receive correction: they have made their faces harder than a rock; they have refused to return.

Eph 4:19  Who being past feeling have given themselves over unto lasciviousness, to work all uncleanness with greediness.


 

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