Proverbs 9:17 - Good News Bible (Anglicised)

¹⁷ “Stolen water is sweeter. Stolen bread tastes better.”

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King James Version (Oxford) 1769

¹⁷ Stolen waters are sweet, And bread eaten in secret is pleasant.

Amplified Bible - Classic Edition

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

American Standard Version (1901)

¹⁷ Stolen waters are sweet, And bread eaten in secret is pleasant.

Common English Bible

¹⁷ “Stolen water is sweet; food eaten in secret is pleasant.”

Catholic Public Domain Version

¹⁷ "Stolen waters are more soothing, and secret bread is more pleasant."

Douay-Rheims version of The Bible - 1752 version

¹⁷ Stolen waters are sweeter, and hidden bread is more pleasant.

Proverbs 9:17 Cross References

Genesis 3:6

The woman saw how beautiful the tree was and how good its fruit would be to eat, and she thought how wonderful it would be to become wise. So she took some of the fruit and ate it. Then she gave some to her husband, and he also ate it.

Proverbs 20:17

What you get by dishonesty you may enjoy like the finest food, but sooner or later it will be like a mouthful of sand.

Proverbs 30:20

This is how an unfaithful wife acts: she commits adultery, has a bath, and says, “But I haven't done anything wrong!”

Proverbs 5:16

Children that you have by other women will do you no good.

Proverbs 5:18

So be happy with your wife and find your joy with the woman you married —

Romans 7:8

But by means of that commandment sin found its chance to stir up all kinds of selfish desires in me. Apart from law, sin is a dead thing.

Ephesians 5:12

(It is really too shameful even to talk about the things they do in secret.)