Proverbs 23:3 - Revised Standard Version (RSV-CI)

³ Do not desire his delicacies, for they are deceptive food.

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, to busy myself with wicked deeds in company with men who work iniquity; and let me not eat of their dainties!

Proverbs 23:6

Do not eat the bread of a man who is stingy; do not desire his delicacies;

Daniel 1:5

The king assigned them a daily portion of the rich food which the king ate, and of the wine which he drank. They were to be educated for three years, and at the end of that time they were to stand before the king.

Daniel 1:8

But Daniel resolved that he would not defile himself with the king's rich food, or with the wine which he drank; therefore he asked the chief of the eunuchs to allow him not to defile himself.

Luke 21:34

“But take heed to yourselves lest your hearts be weighed down with dissipation and drunkenness and cares of this life, and that day come upon you suddenly like a snare;

Ephesians 4:22

Put off your old nature which belongs to your former manner of life and is corrupt through deceitful lusts,