Proverbs 9:17 - New Revised Standard Version Updated Edition 2021

“Stolen water is sweet, and bread eaten in secret is pleasant.”

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King James Version (Oxford) 1769

Stolen waters are sweet, And bread eaten in secret is pleasant.

Amplified Bible - Classic Edition

Stolen waters (pleasures) are sweet [because they are forbidden]; and bread eaten in secret is pleasant. [Prov. 20:17.]

American Standard Version (1901)

Stolen waters are sweet, And bread eaten in secret is pleasant.

Common English Bible

“Stolen water is sweet; food eaten in secret is pleasant.”

Catholic Public Domain Version

"Stolen waters are more soothing, and secret bread is more pleasant."

Douay-Rheims version of The Bible - 1752 version

Stolen waters are sweeter, and hidden bread is more pleasant.

Proverbs 9:17 Cross References

Genesis 3:6

So when the woman saw that the tree was good for food and that it was a delight to the eyes and that the tree was to be desired to make one wise, she took of its fruit and ate, and she also gave some to her husband, who was with her, and he ate.

Proverbs 20:17

Bread gained by deceit is sweet, but afterward the mouth will be full of gravel.

Proverbs 30:20

This is the way of an adulteress: she eats and wipes her mouth and says, “I have done no wrong.”

Proverbs 5:16

Should your springs be scattered abroad, streams of water in the streets?

Proverbs 5:18

Let your fountain be blessed, and rejoice in the wife of your youth,

Romans 7:8

But sin, seizing an opportunity through the commandment, produced in me all kinds of covetousness. For apart from the law sin lies dead.

Ephesians 5:12

For it is shameful even to mention what such people do secretly,