Proverbs 23:3 - King James Version with Apocrypha - American Edition

³ Be not desirous of his dainties: for they are deceitful meat.

More versions

King James Version (Oxford) 1769

³ Be not desirous of his dainties: For they are deceitful meat.

Amplified Bible - Classic Edition

³ Be not desirous of his dainties, for it is deceitful food [offered with questionable motives].

American Standard Version (1901)

³ Be not desirous of his dainties; Seeing they are deceitful food.

Common English Bible

³ Don’t long for the ruler’s delicacies; the food misleads.

Catholic Public Domain Version

³ Do not desire his foods, in which is the bread of deceit.

Douay-Rheims version of The Bible - 1752 version

³ 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 practise wicked works 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 dainty meats:

Daniel 1:5

And the king appointed them a daily provision of the king's meat, and of the wine which he drank: so nourishing them 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 portion of 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

And take heed to yourselves, lest at any time your hearts be overcharged with surfeiting, and drunkenness, and cares of this life, and so that day come upon you unawares.

Ephesians 4:22

that ye put off concerning the former conversation the old man, which is corrupt according to the deceitful lusts;