Proverbs 23:3

Bible in Basic English 1965

Have no desire for his delicate food, for it is the bread of deceit.

Cross References

Psalm 141:4

Keep my heart from desiring any evil thing, or from taking part in the sins of the evil-doers with men who do wrong: and let me have no part in their good things.

Proverbs 23:6

Do not take the food of him who has an evil eye, or have any desire for his delicate meat:

Daniel 1:5

And a regular amount of food and wine every day from the king's table was ordered for them by the king; and they were to be cared for for three years so that at the end of that time they might take their places before the king.

Daniel 1:8

And Daniel had come to the decision that he would not make himself unclean with the king's food or wine; so he made a request to the captain of the unsexed servants that he might not make himself unclean.

Luke 21:34

But give attention to yourselves, for fear that your hearts become over-full of the pleasures of food and wine, and the cares of this life, and that day may come on you suddenly, and take you as in a net:

Ephesians 4:22

That you are to put away, in relation to your earlier way of life, the old man, which has become evil by love of deceit;