Proverbs 23:3 - Revised Version with Apocrypha 1895

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

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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

Incline not my heart to any evil thing, To be occupied in deeds of wickedness With men that work iniquity: And let me not eat of their dainties.

Proverbs 23:6

Eat thou not the bread of him that hath an evil eye, Neither desire thou his dainties:

Daniel 1:5

And the king appointed for them a daily portion of the king's meat, and of the wine which he drank, and that they should be nourished three years; that at the end thereof they might stand before the king.

Daniel 1:8

But Daniel purposed in his heart that he would not defile himself with the king's meat, nor with the wine which he drank: therefore he requested of the prince of the eunuchs that he might not defile himself.

Luke 21:34

But take heed to yourselves, lest haply your hearts be overcharged with surfeiting, and drunkenness, and cares of this life, and that day come on you suddenly as a snare:

Ephesians 4:22

that ye put away, as concerning your former manner of life, the old man, which waxeth corrupt after the lusts of deceit;