Proverbs 9:17 - Revised Version with Apocrypha 1895

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

More versions

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

And 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 the fruit thereof, and did eat; and she gave also unto her husband with her, and he did eat.

Proverbs 20:17

Bread of falsehood is sweet to a man; But afterwards his mouth shall be filled with gravel.

Proverbs 30:20

So is the way of an adulterous woman; She eateth, and wipeth her mouth, And saith, I have done no wickedness.

Proverbs 5:16

Should thy springs be dispersed abroad, And rivers of water in the streets?

Proverbs 5:18

Let thy fountain be blessed; And rejoice in the wife of thy youth.

Romans 7:8

but sin, finding occasion, wrought in me through the commandment all manner of coveting: for apart from the law sin is dead.

Ephesians 5:12

for the things which are done by them in secret it is a shame even to speak of.