Proverbs 23:3 - English Standard Version 2016

Do not desire his delicacies, for they are deceptive food.

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King James Version (Oxford) 1769

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

Amplified Bible - Classic Edition

Be not desirous of his dainties, for it is deceitful food [offered with questionable motives].

American Standard Version (1901)

Be not desirous of his dainties; Seeing they are deceitful food.

Common English Bible

Don’t long for the ruler’s delicacies; the food misleads.

Catholic Public Domain Version

Do not desire his foods, in which is the bread of deceit.

Douay-Rheims version of The Bible - 1752 version

Be not desirous of his meats, in which is the bread of deceit.

Proverbs 23:3 Cross References

Psalm 141:4

Do not let my heart incline to any evil, to busy myself with wicked deeds in company with men who work iniquity, and let me not eat of their delicacies!

Proverbs 23:6

Do not eat the bread of a man who is stingy; do not desire his delicacies,

Daniel 1:5

The king assigned them a daily portion of the food that the king ate, and of the wine that he drank. They were to be educated for three years, and at the end of that time they were to stand before the king.

Daniel 1:8

But Daniel resolved that he would not defile himself with the king’s food, or with the wine that he drank. Therefore he asked the chief of the eunuchs to allow him not to defile himself.

Luke 21:34

“But watch yourselves lest your hearts be weighed down with dissipation and drunkenness and cares of this life, and that day come upon you suddenly like a trap.

Ephesians 4:22

to put off your old self, which belongs to your former manner of life and is corrupt through deceitful desires,