Proverbs 23:3 - New Revised Standard Version Updated Edition 2021

Do not desire an official’s 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 turn my heart to any evil, to busy myself with wicked deeds in company with those who work iniquity; do not let me eat of their delicacies.

Proverbs 23:6

Do not eat the bread of the stingy; do not desire their delicacies,

Daniel 1:5

The king assigned them a daily portion of the royal rations of food and wine. They were to be educated for three years, so that at the end of that time they could be stationed in the king’s court.

Daniel 1:8

But Daniel resolved that he would not defile himself with the royal rations of food and wine, so he asked the palace master to allow him not to defile himself.

Luke 21:34

“Be on guard so that your hearts are not weighed down with dissipation and drunkenness and the worries of this life and that day does not catch you unexpectedly,

Ephesians 4:22

to put away your former way of life, your old self, corrupt and deluded by its lusts,