Proverbs 23:6

Contemporary English Version (Anglicised) 2012

Don't accept an invitation to eat a selfish person's food, no matter how good it is.

Cross References

Psalm 141:4

Don't let me want to do evil or waste my time doing wrong with wicked people. Don't let me even taste the good things they offer.

Proverbs 22:9

The LORD blesses everyone who freely gives food to the poor.

Proverbs 23:3

Don't be greedy for all that fancy food! It may not be so tasty.

Proverbs 28:22

Don't be selfish and eager to get rich— you will end up worse off than you can imagine.

Matthew 20:15

Don't I have the right to do what I want with my own money? Why should you be jealous, if I want to be generous?”

Mark 7:22

unfaithfulness in marriage, greed, meanness, deceit, indecency, envy, insults, pride, and foolishness.

Deuteronomy 15:9

Be careful! Don't say to yourself, “Soon it will be the seventh year, and then I won't be able to get my money back.” It would be horrible for you to think that way and to be so selfish that you refuse to help the poor. They are your relatives, and if you don't help them, they may ask the LORD to decide whether you have done wrong. And he will say that you are guilty.

Deuteronomy 28:56

A woman may have grown up in such luxury that she never had to put a foot on the ground. But times will be so bad that she will secretly eat both her newborn baby and the afterbirth, without sharing any with her husband or her other children.