Proverbs 23:2

Douay-Rheims version of The Bible - 1752 version

And put a knife to thy throat, if it be so that thou have thy soul in thy own power.

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Whose end is destruction; whose God is their belly; and whose glory is in their shame; who mind earthly things.

But I chastise my body, and bring it into subjection: lest perhaps, when I have preached to others, I myself should become a castaway.

When thou shalt sit to eat with a prince, consider diligently what is set before thy face.

Be not in the feasts of great drinkers, nor in their revellings, who contribute flesh to eat:

He went, and brought, and gave them to his mother. She dressed meats, such as she knew his father liked.