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Proverbs Chapter 23

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PROVERBS

Proverbs 23

1When thou sittest to eate with a ruler, consider diligently what is before thee,
Jude 1:12, Jude 1:12, Genesis 43:32, Genesis 43:34, Genesis 43:32
2And put the knife to thy throte, if thou be a man giuen to the appetite.
Philippians 3:19, Philippians 3:19, Matthew 18:8, Matthew 18:9, Matthew 18:8
3Be not desirous of his deintie meates: for it is a deceiuable meate.
Proverbs 23:6, Proverbs 23:6, Psalms 141:4, Psalms 141:4, Daniel 1:8
4Trauaile not too much to be rich: but cease from thy wisdome.
Hebrews 13:5, Hebrews 13:5, Proverbs 28:20, Proverbs 28:20, 1 Timothy 6:8
5Wilt thou cast thine eyes vpon it, which is nothing? for riches taketh her to her wings, as an eagle, and flyeth into the heauen.
Proverbs 27:24, Proverbs 27:24, 1 John 2:16, 1 John 2:16, Matthew 6:19
6Eate thou not the bread of him that hath an euil eye, neither desire his deintie meates.
Psalms 141:4, Proverbs 23:3, Psalms 141:4, Proverbs 23:3, Daniel 1:8
7For as though he thought it in his heart, so will hee say vnto thee, Eate and drinke: but his heart is not with thee.
Psalms 12:2, Psalms 12:2, Psalms 55:21, Psalms 55:21, Judges 16:15
8Thou shalt vomit thy morsels that thou hast eaten, and thou shalt lose thy sweete wordes.
9Speake not in the eares of a foole: for hee will despise the wisdome of thy wordes.
Proverbs 9:7, Proverbs 9:8, Matthew 7:6, Proverbs 9:7, Proverbs 9:8
10Remooue not the ancient boundes, and enter not into the fieldes of the fatherlesse.
Proverbs 22:28, Proverbs 22:28, Zechariah 7:10, Zechariah 7:10, Deuteronomy 27:17
11For he that redeemeth them, is mightie: he will defend their cause against thee.
Proverbs 22:23, Proverbs 22:23, Job 19:25, Job 19:25, Jeremiah 51:36
12Apply thine heart to instruction, and thine eares to the wordes of knowledge.
Proverbs 2:2, Proverbs 2:6, Proverbs 2:2, Proverbs 2:6, Proverbs 5:1
13Withhold not correction from the childe: if thou smite him with the rodde, he shall not die.
Proverbs 13:24, Proverbs 13:24, Proverbs 29:17, Proverbs 29:15, Proverbs 29:17
14Thou shalt smite him with the rodde, and shalt deliuer his soule from hell.
1 Corinthians 5:5, Proverbs 22:15, 1 Corinthians 5:5, Proverbs 22:15, 1 Corinthians 11:32
15My sonne, if thine heart be wise, mine heart shall reioyce, and I also.
Proverbs 23:24, Proverbs 23:25, Proverbs 23:24, Proverbs 23:25, 2 John 1:4
16And my reynes shall reioyce, when thy lips speake righteous things.
Proverbs 8:6, Proverbs 8:6, Ephesians 5:4, Ephesians 5:4, Ephesians 4:29
17Let not thine heart bee enuious against sinners: but let it bee in the feare of the Lord continually.
Proverbs 28:14, Proverbs 28:14, 1 Peter 1:17, 2 Corinthians 7:1, Proverbs 15:16
18For surely there is an ende, and thy hope shall not be cut off.
Hebrews 10:35, Hebrews 10:35, Psalms 9:18, Psalms 9:18, Jeremiah 29:11
19O thou my sonne, heare, and bee wise, and guide thine heart in the way.
Proverbs 23:26, Proverbs 23:26, Proverbs 4:10, Proverbs 4:23, Proverbs 4:10
20Keepe not company with drunkards, nor with gluttons.
Luke 21:34, Ephesians 5:18, Luke 21:34, Ephesians 5:18, Romans 13:13
21For the drunkard and the glutton shall bee poore, and the sleeper shalbe clothed with ragges.
Proverbs 21:17, Proverbs 21:17, Proverbs 6:9, Proverbs 6:11, 1 Corinthians 5:11
22Obey thy father that hath begotten thee, and despise not thy mother when she is olde.
Proverbs 30:17, Proverbs 1:8, Proverbs 30:17, Proverbs 1:8, Ephesians 6:1
23Bye the trueth, but sell it not: likewise wisdome, and instruction, and vnderstanding.
Proverbs 18:15, Proverbs 18:15, Matthew 13:44, Matthew 13:44, Psalms 119:72
24The father of the righteous shall greatly reioyce, and hee that begetteth a wise childe, shall haue ioy of him.
Proverbs 10:1, Proverbs 10:1, Proverbs 15:20, Proverbs 15:20, Proverbs 23:15
25Thy father and thy mother shall be glad, and she that bare thee shall reioyce.
Proverbs 17:25, Proverbs 17:25, Luke 1:58, Luke 11:27, Luke 11:28
26My sonne, giue mee thine heart, and let thine eyes delite in my wayes.
Psalms 119:2, Psalms 119:2, Deuteronomy 6:5, Psalms 119:9, Psalms 119:11
27For a whore is as a deepe ditche, and a strange woman is as a narrowe pitte.
Proverbs 22:14, Proverbs 22:14
28Also she lyeth in wait as for a praye, and she increaseth the transgressers among men.
Ecclesiastes 7:26, Ecclesiastes 7:26, Proverbs 7:12, Proverbs 7:12, Hosea 4:11
29To whome is woe? to whome is sorowe? to whom is strife? to whom is murmuring? to whom are woundes without cause? and to whome is the rednesse of the eyes?
Ephesians 5:18, Ephesians 5:18, Isaiah 5:11, Proverbs 23:21, Isaiah 5:22
30Euen to them that tarie long at the wine, to them that goe, and seeke mixt wine.
Ephesians 5:18, Ephesians 5:18, Isaiah 5:11, Isaiah 5:11, Proverbs 20:1
31Looke not thou vpon the wine, when it is red, and when it sheweth his colour in the cup, or goeth downe pleasantly.
1 John 2:16, 1 John 2:16, 2 Samuel 11:2, Psalms 119:37, 2 Samuel 11:2
32In the ende thereof it will bite like a serpent, and hurt like a cockatrise.
Exodus 7:5, Exodus 7:6, Proverbs 5:11, Ecclesiastes 10:8, Jeremiah 5:31
33Thine eyes shall looke vpon strange women, and thine heart shall speake lewde things.
Jude 1:12, Jude 1:13, Jude 1:12, Jude 1:13, Daniel 5:4
34And thou shalt bee as one that sleepeth in the middes of the sea, and as hee that sleepeth in the toppe of the maste.
1 Thessalonians 5:2, 1 Thessalonians 5:7, 1 Thessalonians 5:2, 1 Thessalonians 5:7, Luke 21:34
35They haue stricken mee, shalt thou say, but I was not sicke: they haue beaten mee, but I knew not, when I awoke: therefore will I seeke it yet still.
Jeremiah 5:3, Isaiah 56:12, Jeremiah 5:3, Isaiah 56:12, Proverbs 27:22

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