Proverbs 23:3 - The Scriptures 2009

Do not desire his delicacies, For that food is deceptive.

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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

Let not my heart be inclined to evil, To practise deeds of wrongness With men working wickedness, And let me not eat of their delicacies.

Proverbs 23:6

Do not eat the bread of one having an evil eye, Nor desire his delicacies;

Daniel 1:5

And the sovereign appointed for them a daily ration of the sovereign’s food and of the wine which he drank, and three years of training for them, so that at the end thereof they should stand before the sovereign.

Daniel 1:8

But Dani’ĕl laid it upon his heart that he would not defile himself with the portion of the sovereign’s food, nor with the wine which he drank. So he asked permission from the chief of the eunuchs not to defile himself.

Luke 21:34

“And take heed to yourselves, lest your hearts be weighed down by gluttony, and drunkenness, and worries of this life, and that day come on you suddenly.

Ephesians 4:22

that you put off – with regard to your former behaviour – the old man, being corrupted according to the desires of the deceit,